Reliability of Industrial Systems and Components

• Cyclic Thermal Fatigue Failure and Thermal Analysis
• Physical Based Modeling (FEM and CFD)

The laboratory has experience with a variety of reliability and accelerated life analysis tools

• Weibull ++7
• Alta 7
• BlockSim 7

Current Research field:

• High-Fidelity physics-based reliability analysis of industrial systems involving thermo-fluid-structure interactions.

• Employing Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Finite Element Method (FEM), and Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) techniques for reliability evaluation based on critical transient operation.

• Integrating state-of-the-art computational tools for modeling flexibility and accuracy.

• Analysis methods are applicable to a wide range of industrial applications, such as heat exchanger circuits, expansion joints, condensation traps, ducts and piping, valves, and tube bundles.

Reliability tools are also integrated with commercially available computational tools:

• ANSYS/CFX
• Design Explorer
• Fluent
• iSIGHT/FIPER