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Craig Ceppetelli
Phone: 613-998-9388
Fax: 613-957-0831
Email: Craig.Ceppetelli@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
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Phone: 613-990-7249
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Structural Analysis
For decades, heavy vehicle engineers carved weight from their structures while concentrating on prevention of static yield of materials.
Today's Challenges: Fatigue & Buckling
Their success has brought new challenges. Many structures are so light and slender that fatigue and buckling are now the main engineering problems.
CSTT offers a full range of analytical tools to provide engineering solutions to these problems.
Stress. Dynamics. Fatigue. Buckling. All four co-exist in the service environment faced by your vehicle and govern its durability.
Finite element analysis. Multi-body dynamics. Field testing. Laboratory testing. All four come together at CSTT and govern the validity of the projections of your vehicle's service life.
Rare Capabilities
The world is full of structural engineers who can develop an FE model to estimate stress concentrations and fatigue exposure in your structure.
There are even some engineering firms that can develop multi-body dynamics models to estimate the levels of excitation on your structure.
But few can link the dynamics to the stresses, and very few can determine the boundary conditions with any demonstrable accuracy or validate any of the models' predictions. Without these, their computer models are floating on assumptions.
Custom Testing and Analysis
CSTT will develop an analysis-plus-test program at any level of complexity you need.
From simple lab test that do more, cost less, and are faster than even the most over-simplified FE model...
... to comprehensive programs that merge all of the latest tools and techniques to anchor your vehicle's service life projections in a world of confidence.
The benefits of CSTT structural analysis include fast, pinpoint identification of vehicle structural weaknesses, better vehicle and component performance, higher reliability, lower maintenance costs, and greater buyer satisfaction and vendor confidence.
Only the combination of advanced software tools, industry-leading vehicle engineering experts, and CSTT's renowned field and laboratory test facilities and equipment deliver this capability to you.
Excellence. Efficiency. Validity. Confidence. You can have it all at CSTT.
For further information, please contact:
Rail Division
Mike Krzyzanowski, Key Accounts Manager
Mike.Krzyzanowski@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
(613) 998-3176
Craig A. Ceppetelli, Key Accounts Manager
Craig.Ceppetelli@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
(613) 998-9388
Road Vehicle and Military Systems
Rick Zaporzan, Key Accounts Manager
Rick.Zaporzan@nrc.gc.ca
(613) 990-7249
Kevin Hayes, Key Accounts Manager
Kevin.Hayes@nrc.gc.ca
(613) 991-5024
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Centre for Surface Transportation Technology
2320 Lester Road
Ottawa, Canada
K1V 1S2
General Information: inquiries.CSTT@nrc.gc.ca
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