Strength calculations

Ingehim provides strength calculation services for vessels, apparatuses, and their components. To deliver these services, we utilize modern licensed software packages such as PVP-Design and APM WinMachine. Our specialists have gained extensive hands-on experience through long-term work at industry research and design institutes. Additionally, we perform strength verification calculations for equipment used in the chemical, petrochemical, oil refining, oil, gas, and other industries (see reference-list).

PVP-Design is an application software designed to perform strength calculations for pressure vessels, pressure apparatuses, including associated piping, and any components of these systems. It evaluates the structural load-bearing capacity during normal operation, test operation, and installation. We have been using the software since 2007 for the design, reconstruction, and diagnosis of vessels and apparatuses, and have closely collaborated with the software developers to improve the quality of PVP-Design.

APM WinMachine is a CAD/CAE software designed for the calculation and design of machine elements, mechanisms, and structures. It is intended for stress-strain analysis of framed, plated, shell, and solid structures, as well as any arbitrary combinations of these types, particularly where standardized design procedures do not exist.

Stress-strain analysis of a support arm subjected to static upright loading using the APM WinMachine software package

 

The APM WinMachine software package, combined with a professional approach to analyzing load conditions of equipment components, enables the solution of a wide range of applied problems:

• To design mechanical equipment and their components using engineering approaches.
• To perform stress-strain analysis (finite element analysis) of three-dimensional objects of any complexity under any constraints, subjected to static or dynamic loads.
• To utilize built-in databases for standard items and materials, as well as to create in-house databases for specific purposes.

Numerical analysis of equipment subjected to static, dynamic, uniform, and other types of loads enables the solution of the following tasks:

• To determine fields of equivalent stresses and their components.
• To calculate linear, angular, and resultant displacements.
• To determine internal forces.
• To calculate stability and buckling modes.
• To determine the natural vibration frequencies and natural modes.
• To calculate forced vibrations, animate the oscillation process for a specified forcing load, and determine the vibrations of the base.
• To calculate fields of temperature and thermal stresses.
• To calculate fatigue strength.
• To perform geometrical nonlinear analysis.
• To perform automatic analysis of sections for strength, rigidity, and stability conditions of metal constructions in mechanical engineering.
• To design metal construction components.
• To perform the automatic generation of nomenclature for construction elements.

 

These state-of-the-art software packages enable us to search for the best engineering solutions when designing non-standard equipment for our customers in Russia and the CIS countries. We can also perform strength calculations for non-CIS countries using these software packages as well as globally recognized ones such as Ansys.

We will calculate our service fees after receiving all the required specifications via email.