Consultancy
Simulation Consultancy Services
ZDL is able to conduct turnkey projects using the leading multi-body dynamics tool (MSC.ADAMS) to assist with the design and analysis of your product.
With over 15 years of experience covering the automotive, aerospace, medical and general machinery industries, we have the expertise required to solve your mechanism design problems. Recent ZDL projects include:
- Creation of bespoke aerodynamic force element for aircraft model
- Optimisation and analysis of sports car suspension for ride and handling performance improvements
- Landing gear loads analysis for a UAV
- Shimmy analysis for landing gear for small fighter aircraft (Paper presented at 2007 VI-grade Users Conference)
- Helicopter nose gear shimmy analysis
- Helicopter nose gear passive steering returnability simulation
- Off-highway military vehicle model creation and correlation
- Creation of bespoke full vehicle suspension test rig (3 axle)
- On-highway heavy goods vehicle suspension loads analysis
- Specialist MSC.ADAMS related training
- Race car setup optimisation for minimal lap time
Previous consultancy projects prior to the formation of ZDL include:
- Conceptual vehicle suspension system development
- Conceptual twist beam suspension development (Paper presented at SAE Congress 1999)
- Simulation of aircraft pullback tractor
- Simulation of dose counter mechanism for inhaler
- Simulation of clutch cable operation
- Optimisation of family of on-highway commercial vehicle suspension systems for ride and handling
- Develop model that integrates aircraft landing gear mechanical, hydraulic and avionics systems
- Vehicle virtual durability prediction
- Suspension optimisation for vehicle handling
- and many others
