Engineering Projects

Bespoke Mechanical Test Rigs

We are well positioned to design, develop and manufacture bespoke facilities to meet your loadcase specification and requirements.

Impact Energy Absorbing Boss

The impact energy absorbing boss has been designed, developed and manufactured by Simpact for use by their Niche vehicle customers wanting to achieve ECE-R12 European Type Approval. The boss is retrofitted to an existing steering column assembly between the column and steering wheel.

Shaping the Future of Body Armour

The effectiveness of PPE is compromised by ergonomic issues hindering the wearer's mobility. This study describes what it takes to develop more ergonomic chest plates.

ALM Innovation in British Hillclimbing

Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM), also known as 3D printing or additive manufacturing offers design freedom allowing to minimise weight, important when every gram counts.

Spacetrain – Spaceframe Structures for Rail

Getting rid of dead weight in public transport.

High-flying technology for drone impacts

Application of cutting-edge Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for safety and crash analysis

The application of 3D Digital Image Correlation (DIC) to blast load cases

Our defence client came to us asking for us to provide an accurate calculation of dynamic displacements in 3D during a blast load case

HPC for Vehicle Safety Simulation

High Performance Cluster computing making use of a dedicated independent service centre.

Simpact/GCE Editorial

The design of a novel protective guard for a gas bottle valve. Traditionally these items are made out of steel, this is the first of a generation of polymer based designs.

ICARUS

Innovative technology designed for high speed video and high end photography.