AMES provides gas turbine engine life management for Aerospace, Transportation and Energy industries for;

• reducing operation cost
• increasing operation safety
• improving service availability

PRODUCTS

• MISSION DATABASE DEVELOPMENT
• MISSION PROFILE ANALYSIS
• STRESS ANALYSIS AND FRACTURE MECHANICS ANALYSIS
• LIFE PREDICTION
• LIFE VALIDATION
• DEVELOPMENT OF INSPECTION SCHEDULES AND MAINTENANCE PLANS

TECHNOLOGIES

• Computer based real-time airborne data acquisition and advanced data compression technology.
• Mission profile analysis based on life consumption concept.
• Leading commercial and proprietary software packages for mission data analysis and statistical analysis.
• State-of-the-art computer hardware and software system for stress/strain analysis and fracture mechanics analysis using finite element method, including ProEngineer, MSC/PATRAN and MSC/Advanced-FEA: 2D and 3D, static and dynamic, steady-state and transient, mechanical and thermo-mechanical.
• Instrumented engine test.
• Advanced material testing technologies: creep, HCF, LCF, crack propagation at various temperatures.
• Application of cumulative damage models to life prediction by taking into account the effects of stress ratio, temperature, both thermal and mechanical loading and creep fatigue interactions.
• Using both total fatigue and crack propagation approaches in fatigue life prediction.
• Spin pit testing for life verification.
• Automated Eddy Current inspection