Our staff develops mechanical solutions for multiple industries. From power utilities to the oil and gas industry, we are proud to improve efficiency and productivity through expertise in engineering dynamics, structures, materials, and fluids systems. Our mission is to improve the safety, reliability, efficiency, and life of new or existing mechanical components and systems for the benefit of our clients.
We help manufacturers and the defense sector test and evaluate armor, structures, and vehicles for vulnerabilities. We investigate the nonlinear response of materials and structures with a special emphasis on responses to large deformations at high strain rates, often to failure. Our integrated approach to problem solving effectively combines experimental, analytical, and computational techniques to meet client needs. Research activities include fundamental investigations, applied studies and analyses, and developmental studies.
Market Segments
- Analytical Penetration Modeling
- Armor Mechanics
- Ballistics & Explosives Range
- Biological & Chemical Hazards
- Blast Containment Design
- Computational Mechanics
- Dynamic Materials Characterization
- EPIC Dynamic Finite Element Code
- Explosion Hazards
- High-Speed Data Acquisition
- Impact Testing
- Measurement of Ballistic & Explosive Events
- Penetration Mechanics
- Penetration Mechanics Short Course
- Small Arms & Nonlethal Weapons
- Small Arms Testing
- Spacecraft Impact & Hazards Analysis
- Ultra-High Temperature Materials Characterization
- Vehicle Systems Survivability
Our staff solves fluid systems problems in the areas of flow measurement, fluid machinery design, plant engineering services, multiphase flow assurance and rotating machinery.
Market Segments
- Carbon Dioxide Compressor for ISS Sabatier Water Production System
- CFD Applications
- Custom Flow Loop Design
- Erosion Testing, Analysis & CFD Modeling
- Flow Assurance & Multiphase Flow Modeling
- Flow Assurance Testing
- Flow Coefficient Testing
- Flow Measurement Research Programs
- Flow Meter Calibration Services
- Flow Test Systems & Flow Calibration Capabilities
- Fluids Engineering CFD
- Foam Research Facility
- Gas-Liquid Separation Testing
- Gas Lift Valve Testing
- Gas Pipeline Leak Detection Services
- General Fluid Dynamics & Sloshing
- Heavy Oil Testing
- Inflow Control Device (ICD) Multiphase Testing
- Metering Research Facility
- Multiphase Flow & Wet Gas Measurement
- Multiphase Flow Characterization & Modeling
- Multiphase Flow Facility (MFF)
- Multiphase Flow Meter (MPFM) Testing
- Natural Gas Measurement Field Services
- Oil & Gas Completion & Production
- Phase Separation Equipment Evaluation
- Quality Control & Safety
- Safety Valve Testing
- Separation Technology Research (STAR) Program Joint Industry Project
- Slurry Flow Testing
- Space Fluids Engineering
- Valve Integrity, Fugitive Emission & Cryogenic Testing
- Vibration & Shock Testing
We provide engineering solutions to fluid and structural dynamics problems with root cause failure analysis, designs and tests, rapid-response field services, and auditing services for manufacturers and users of rotating machinery.
Market Segments
- Acoustical (Pulsation) Analyses
- Acoustically Induced Vibration
- Aero-Thermal Flow Analysis
- Blade Vibration Audit Technology
- Centrifugal Compressors
- Centrifugal Compressor Stage Performance Test Rig
- Centrifugal Compressor Station (FIV) Pulsation Analysis
- CFD & Heat Transfer
- Condition Assessment
- Crankshaft Strain in Large Integral Reciprocating Compressors
- Design Analysis
- Determining Optimal EOS for an Application
- Dynamic Compressor Simulation & Surge Analysis
- Fan & Duct Dynamics
- Finite Element Dynamic Analysis
- Flow-Induced Vibration & Noise
- Fluid Pipeline Modeling & Simulation
- Gas Networks & Compression Station Analyses
- Gas Physical Properties
- Gas Physical Property Measurements
- Gas Turbine & Centrifugal Compressor Performance Testing
- Gas Turbine Engine Root Cause Failure Analysis
- Gas Turbine Inlet Filtration Services
- Gas Turbine Services
- Hydrogen Energy Research
- Key Machinery Technologies
- Life Analysis & Management
- Life Evaluation
- Liquid Networks & Pumping Facility Analyses
- Liquid Propulsion
- Long Duration Energy Storage
- Machinery Torsional Dynamics
- Machinery Vibration Services
- Materials & Coating Selection
- Mechanical Design Assurance
- Mechanical Energy Storage Research
- Mechanical Vibration Analysis
- Mixed Recip/Centrifugal Compressor Station Pulsation Analysis
- Numerical Propulsion System Simulation (NPSS)
- Oxy-Fuel Combustion
- Pressure Safety Valve Analysis
- Procurement Support
- Pulsation & Mechanical Analyses
- Pump Piping System Design
- Radial Flow Gas Turbine
- Reciprocating Compressor Design & Analysis
- Reciprocating Compressors: Field Support Services
- Reciprocating Compressors: Foundation Integrity
- Reciprocating Pump Support Services
- Root Cause Machinery Failure Analysis
- Rotor Blade Dynamics
- Rotordynamic & Mechanical Design Audits
- Rotordynamic Analysis
- Steam Turbine Technology
- Stress & Thermal Analysis
- Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Systems
- SwRI’s Nathan Andrews named AIAA Associate Fellow
- Thermal Stress Analysis
- Training Simulators for Compressor and Pump Stations
- Transient Analysis Pulsation Solver (TAPS)
- Troubleshooting Turbomachinery Operating & Installation Problems
- Turbomachinery & Piping System CFD
- Turbomachinery Performance Diagnosis
- Waste Heat Recovery Research
- Wet Gas Compression & System Performance
- Wind Turbine Technology Services
We apply advanced materials and analysis technologies to solve problems and develop new and better materials to enhance the performance of products. Our staff evaluates and predicts the life, performance, and risk of failure for structures, mechanical components, and engineered systems.
Market Segments
- Battery Development
- Biomaterials & Scaffolds
- Biomechanical Testing
- Biomechanical Testing & Characterization
- Bone & Biomechanics
- Cased Pipeline Corrosion Model (CAPCOM)
- Computational Materials & Modeling
- Computational Materials Integrity & Lifing
- Computational Modeling
- Computational Musculoskeletal Modeling
- Computational Reliability Analysis & Uncertainty Quantification
- Corrosion Failure Analysis
- Corrosion Monitoring & Sensor Solutions
- Corrosion Testing Laboratory
- DARWIN
- Environmentally Assisted Fatigue
- Failure Analysis for Medical Applications
- Failure Analysis for the Oil, Gas, Chemical, & Nuclear Industries
- Failure Prevention
- FlawPRO™ Engineering Critical Assessment (ECA)
- High-Temperature & High Pressure Testing
- Human Performance Solutions
- Infrared & Ultraviolet Imaging
- Life, Integrity & Failure Prediction
- Manufacturing & Transportation Failure Analysis
- Markerless Motion Capture Laboratory
- Materials Chemistry
- Mechanical Characterization & Testing
- Metallurgical Analysis Laboratory
- MicroCT Analysis
- NASGRO® Fracture Mechanics & Fatigue Crack Growth Software
- NESSUS®
- Optical Coating Services
- Power Generation Failure Analysis
- Probabilistic Mechanics & Uncertainty Modeling
- Product Evaluations
- Radioactive Materials Characterization
- Root Cause Failure Analysis
- Stress Corrosion Cracking
- Structural Component Failure Analysis
- Surface Engineering & Materials Chemistry Facilities
- Surface Engineering Processes & Capabilities
- Surface Modification & Thin Films
Our full range of design, testing, and fabrication services for structural components and mechanical systems serve a variety of commercial and government clients in the marine, offshore, highway, and rail-based transportation systems, electronics, telecommunications, space, and aerospace industries.
Market Segments
- Acoustic Evaluations & Analyses
- Aerospace Structural Design & Testing
- Aircraft Structural Design & Analysis
- Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP)
- AirStats
- Barrier Crash Testing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Deep Ocean Pressure Simulation Testing
- Electromagnetics
- Enhanced Data Acquisition System
- Helmet Testing Laboratory
- Magnetic Resonance Process Monitoring
- Magnetostrictive Sensor-Based Guided Waves
- Marine Structures & Engineering
- Mechanical Acoustic Evaluation & Analysis
- NASGRO® Fracture Mechanics & Fatigue Crack Growth Software
- Nuclear Component Testing
- Nuclear Reactor Pressure Vessel Inspection System
- Ocean Simulation Lab
- Physical Environmental Testing & Evaluation
- Probabilistic Structural Design
- Process Monitoring Research & Development
- ROHS/Energy Star
- Space Propulsion & Propellants
- Standard Tests for Offshore Technology
- Structural Dynamics Testing & Evaluation
- Structural Health Management (SHM)
- System Reliability Engineering
- Telecommunications Equipment Testing
- Testing of Valves & Valve Components
- Ultrasonic Inspection Services
- Vibration & Shock Testing
- X-Ray Process Monitoring
Quality Certifications
Verizon Certified ITL Program[PDF]
American Petroleum Institute (API-6AV1 and API-14A)[PDF]