Spacinex Technical Capabilities
Technical Services
SPACINEX Advanced Composites Product/New Product Design & Development, Product Optimization expertise that includes
- Concept Building
- Design, Analysis and Development
- Research and Development (Complete Composites Research and Development)
- Simulation and Virtual Analysis
- Computer Aided Engineering/ Analysis, and Knowledge Based Engineering
- Tooling Design and Development
- Prototyping & Testing
- Process Definition, Process Designing and Development
- System Integration
- Product Data Management and Technical Documentation
- Manufacturing Engineering (including cost effective manufacturing technology)
- Test methodology for composites parts and products.
Concept Building:
SPACINEX Advanced Composites Pvt Limited (SACPL) Experts work closely with you to bring your ideas to reality. The SPACINEX Advanced Composites Pvt Limited (SACPL) Experts team can take your concept, model and prototype it.SPACINEX Advanced Composites Pvt Limited (SACPL) never stands still with product development, using the latest materials, resins, and processes to achieve the lightest, strongest, and highest quality products. Our engineering and design departments begin the process of bringing a concept to life by working closely with customers to create and develop a design to meet specific criteria. We utilize reverse engineering to re-create an existing component when no design or detailed information is available. Using state-of-the-art CAD/CAM software, our engineers devise comprehensive plans to ensure each product is manufactured in the most reliable and efficient manner. Additionally, our team can create a prototype to accurately evaluate your product’s feasibility before manufacturing begins.
Product Design, Analysis and Development
Innovative concepts are the beginning for a better product that reaches SPACINEX Advanced Composites . From then on the product development process starts. Composite structures need to be designed with a precise understanding of how the materials can be used to maximise the benefits for your project. Early involvement of composites expertise is critical if the best outcome is to be realised. SPACINEX Advanced Composites Pvt Limited (SACPL) can lead you through the engineering phases from concept development, detailed design and how the composite construction will react to real-life forces such as vibration, heat and other physical effects (FEA). This will lead to the production of final part and assembly drawings. We will make high quality 3D CAD models, every little detail needs to be designed. We test prototypes and prepare the parts for manufacturing
Staying Competitive in today’s Marketplace Increasingly Requires Reduced Design Cycles, Faster Time-to-market, Lower Costs and Ultimately Higher ROI on Product Development Investments. SPACINEX Advanced Composites has A Stellar Record In Successfully Operating Product Co-development Relationships With Several Global Companies And Are Enabling Them To Meet Their Product Development Objectives
SPACINEX Advanced Composites Pvt Limited (SACPL) team of experienced composite technicians offer a range of design and development advice to ensure your project and component requirements are catered for. Our technicians have many years of experience in marine, aerospace and automotive composites, and the quality disciplines associated with these industries, that can provide the commercial capability and reliability exceeding your expectations.
Component Product and Component Design and Development
Do you have a design concept or an idea that may benefit from composite materials? These materials may give your product a performance edge in the market. We can help you in these areas:
- Determining which components are candidates for composites
- Selecting materials
- Determining strength or stiffness
- Qualifying safety margins
- Defining tests to measure or demonstrate capabilities
SPACINEX Advanced Composites Pvt Limited (SACPL) can also help review, refine, and/ or define requirements. Once specifications are in place, we can identify which are the key parameters that could drive costs, risk performance schedule delay and other concerns.
Types of Composites Engineering and Design Services:
- Component design
- Laminate design and optimization
- Tooling design
- Stress analysis and FEA
- Inspection criteria
- Project management
Research and Development:
At the heart of what we do is a commitment to the continuous development of innovative, advanced composites products and components.
The experts in materials and polymer science at work are more than the brains behind our operation. With a passion for innovation and the drive to see our customers and products succeed. SPACINEX Advanced Composites Pvt Limited (SACPL) has made significant investments in its people and equipment to provide a comprehensive, customizable mix of research, development, and testing services capable of meeting the specific needs of each customer.
When existing methods aren’t good enough, or where a customer has developed an internal method, we will work with our customer to clarify, prove, document, and implement new working procedures or protocols to suit.
SPACINEX Advanced Composites Pvt Limited (SACPL) has considerable experience in the development, analysis and manufacture of novel composite materials. We are skilled in traditional methods of fabricating composite materials as well as the development of cutting edge manufacturing processes for composites
Some Key Take Away:
• Integrated R&D programs for the development of new composite applications, materials, processes, and designs.
• Analysis methods development including critical assessment and validation of analysis approaches and failure criteria.
• Material/structural behaviour studies and advanced data analysis, such as characterization of notched strength by detailed material failure mechanisms.
• Integrated R&D programs for the development of new composite applications, materials, processes, and designs.
• Analysis methods development including critical assessment and validation of analysis approaches and failure criteria.
• Material/structural behaviour studies and advanced data analysis, such as characterization of notched strength by detailed material failure mechanisms.
Simulation and Virtual Analysis
Composite materials in engineering are gaining popularity with manufacturers due, in part, to their lightweight properties, strength, and durability. As with any industrial part or product, composites components must reach quality requirements and go through extensive testing to meet certification requirements, which usually happens late in the development cycle. When defects are found at this stage, they lead to additional time and costs and a delay in getting the product to market. SPACINEX Advanced Composites Pvt Limited (SACPL) uses different simulation software that helps target defects early in the composite product’s development cycle, when it’s easier to fine-tune the manufacturing
- Analyse and optimize individual manufacturing operations
- Link these operations by transferring material history from one operation to the next (change in Fibre orientations, curing degree, temperature distribution)
- Correct, optimize or validate processes like draping, thermoforming, RTM, infusion or curing and etc, to minimize manufacturing defects, insure reproducibility, and decrease development costs
SPACINEX Advanced Composites Pvt Limited (SACPL) addresses a wide range of composite materials, with a focus on continuous fibres. It can model carbon or glass fibres, thermoset or thermoplastic matrix, dry textiles or pre-pregs.
Our innovative simulation techniques helps to target defects early in your composite product’s development cycle, when it’s easier to fine-tune the manufacturing process. The extensive solution capabilities in composites help to analyse and enhance complex composite designs.
Almost all our advanced composite products at the prototyping stage are software simulated to predict their manufacturability using the composite manufacturing process of the need. In fact we use Composite Manufacturing Simulation to predict the manufacturability of all critical products we manufacture.
This enables us to choose, design and tweak the composite manufacturing setup optimally - to get the prototype "First Time Right" - from the manufacturing perspective. This also enables us to "understand" the "art" of manufacturing High Performance Composites. Conversion of this "Understanding" into practical improvements in the composite manufacturing and design process is what helps us to constantly be on the cutting edge of Advanced Composite Manufacturing Technology.
Identifying and dealing with manufacturing problems at the design stage, saves considerable cost downstream.
Many composite components require draping of multiple plies over curved surfaces which could lead to material shearing, excessive stretching and a marked change of Fibre orientation. Excessive shearing can lead to manufacturing difficulties, and if the Fibres deviate considerably from the desired orientation, it could lead to a compromised structure.
SPACINEX Advanced Composites Pvt Limited (SACPL) simulation techniques deal with the mentioned problem by helping predict the Fibre orientations and shear of unidirectional and woven plies as they drape around curved and complex surfaces and study the behaviour of composite structures across the loading spectrum. Both linear and nonlinear analysis are conducted to predict the response of these structures accurately.
- Linear and Nonlinear Static
- Linear and Nonlinear Transient
- Normal Modes
- Buckling
- Direct or Modal Frequency Response
- Direct or Modal Complex Eigenvalue
- Direct or Modal Transient Response
- Heat Transfer
- Thermal-Structural Analysis
- Due to the heterogeneous and layered nature of composites, multiple failure mechanisms affect the performance of composites during service.
SPACINEX Advanced Composites Pvt Limited (SACPL) studies the damage build-up that can gradually lead to performance degradation and to ultimate failure.
• Progressive Failure Analysis: Predict progression of damage in the materials using any of the multiple failure criteria including Maximum Stress, Maximum Strain and so on….
• Delamination: Analyse weakening and failure of bond between the plies using Cohesive Zone Modelling technique. - Crack Propagation: Simulate crack propagation using Virtual Crack Closure Technique (VCCT) to design products with better crack growth resistance.