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| We were approached by Burnley based Hurel Hispano to provide additional resources for urgent work they were performing on the thrust reverser assembly for a jet engine design for Honeywell. |
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| Hurel Hispano were users of MSC.Nastran for Windows (supplied by ourselves), ensuring seamless interchange of models and output files between our two companies. |
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| We took their existing finite element models and results and extracted load data for a wide variety of components within the thrust reverser assembly to perform hand calculations. We then supplied the calculations back to Hurel Hispano for incorporation into their overall report. |
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| In addition to this work we performed a number of calculations on a weight-reduced version of the assembly to ensure the revised design still met the stress criteria dictated by the stringent Aerospace standards. |
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| The figure top right is of the thrust reverser assembly in the deployed configuration with Von-Mises stress contours. |
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| The figure below right shows one of the two main beams of the thrust reverser assembly. |
| As the main structural members, these take the highest loads and, as expected, need to be analysed with great care and accuracy. |
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