SIX D TESTING & ANALYSIS AND WOLF STAR TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP

We’re pleased to announce a partnership with Wolf Star Technologies. This collaboration brings new capabilities for determining the actual loads of structures. Using Wolf Star’s True-Load software and support, 6D can now employ a finite element model together with field strain measurements.

These measurements are obtained from tests involving representative duty cycles or customer usage enabling True-Load to back calculate real world loads. Furthermore, these loads can be applied to the finite element model to calculate the full strain field over the entire structure.

This approach provides the benefits of:

• Quantifying actual, real-world loads and ensuring that important load cases are not missed.
• Ensuring that significant stress hots spots are identified even if not originally included at the initial strain gage measurement locations.
• Providing results that can be processed with fatigue software to predict life.
• Providing component loads supporting further physical proof testing via lab hydraulic test systems or vibration shakers.

About Wolf Star Technologies

Based on years of practical experience, Wolf Star Technologies?understands the challenges of Product Development. The company knows the structural and dynamic issues that plague every Product Development project and offers unique, first-to-market solutions that meet the fundamental needs of?engineers / analysts working with FEA tools. Wolf Star software packages,?True-Load,?True-QSE?and?True-LDE, bring understanding to dynamic loading of structures and?extract decision ready data from FEA models.

Learn more at: www.wolfstartech.com

About Six DOF Testing & Analysis

6D has been engineering solutions to complex structural and mechanical problems since 2001.?Our team of engineers, PhDs and technicians brings decades mechanical testing and analysis experience while working in industries from rotating machinery, automotive and utilities to off-highway vehicles, rail and aircraft applications.

Our expertise in traditional and unattended data acquisition, diagnostic testing, finite element analysis and structural dynamics has helped us establish a reputation that not only yields a systems-wide approach to problem solving but also a knack for delivering constructive and corrective action steps for clients around the globe. No matter where you are in the product life cycle process, our team can gather data to guide design on the front end, validate and improve a design before it goes to market or diagnose and solve problems in existing systems.