Analysis

Our multidisciplinary expertise allows us to conduct high-end analysis that takes into consideration complex loading, varied and often conflicting operating environments, and myriad environmental factors. Our multidisciplinary approach to analysis deconstructs the entire system.

Starboard understands complex systems and generates meaningful and repeatable conclusions. We offer a menu of technical, physical, and mathematical analyses depending on the project and our clients’ needs.

Analysis Capabilities:

Mathematical modeling
Numerical simulation methods
Finite element analysis (FEA)
Multiphysics simulations
Validation and calibration
Data analysis
Root cause analysis (RCA)
Product competitive analysis

Related Work

Dynamic Simulation Software

Custom software tool for pre-job simulation of perforating gun detonation: ground-up development, custom part library, structural and fluid response, & surface testing for calibration.

Subsea Job Failure Analysis

Downhole Job Failure Analysis

Investigation of GOM oil production job involving a large gun system that laterally parted: reviewed client analysis, metallurgy analysis, & developed new job-specific analysis.

Aircraft Crashworthy Design

Novel crash energy attenuation mechanisms & energy absorber elements for commercial aircraft seats: design, development, full-scale crash test, & data analysis.

Downhole Sensing Tool

Shock-hardened, 12-channel load, pressure, and acceleration sensing tool with embedded electronics: conception, design, fabrication, & testing.

Mathematical modeling

Basic physics, multi-physics, structural mechanics, structural dynamics, fluid mechanics, fluid dynamics, equations of state, shock, thermal/heat transfer, static/dynamic fracture & crack growth.

Numerical simulation methods

Finite difference, finite element, incompressible and compressible CFD, solid-particle hydrodynamics (SPH), commercial solvers, custom solvers, & MATLAB.

Finite element analysis

Explicit & implicit analyses; transient, modal, & frequency analyses; Eulerian, Lagrangian, & Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) formulations; motion, strain/stress, pressure, temperature, & magnetic field DOFs; non-linear materials & advanced material models.

Multiphysics simulations

Fluid-structure interaction (FSI), structure-fluid interaction (SFI), contact, impact, shock, explosives, crash, gravity & hydrostatic pressure initialization, buckling, & post-buckling.

Validation and calibration

Validation of model assumptions/accuracy using available research & detailed experimentation; calibration of model uncertainties using model-experiment correlation.

Data analysis

Processing of large datasets, statistical data reduction, script automation, validity & integrity analysis (quality control), performance analysis, visualization, MATLAB, FORTRAN, & Excel.

Root cause analysis (RCA)

Failure investigation, formulation & vetting of hypotheses, case study simulation, & remediation plan development & simulation.

Product competitive analysis

Evaluate product design, identify strengths & weaknesses, & compare with competition.