Capabilities - Safety Engineering

Bringing together expertise in engineering, materials science and specialist software development with an unrivalled combination of custom-built mechanical test facilities. We provide a comprehensive service for the investigation of engineering components, structures and electrical control systems and their impact on safety. Using advanced computing techniques we can develop technical databases and e-learning packages.

  Case Studies

Our engineering control capability encompasses expertise in:

• Behaviour of materials and structures under load and failure modes. Large scale facilities are available for static and dynamic fatigue analysis and windloading. We have the largest impact test track in Europe..
  
  
• Safety critical plant and equipment, including: pressure vessels; pipework; lifting gear.
  
  
• Construction safety devices and access structures, including: scaffolding and harnesses.
  
  
• Vehicle and locomotive stability and behaviour. Large scale facilities are available for the study crashworthiness.
  
  
• Workplace transport.
  
  

• Engineering critical assessment.

• Structural dynamics.

• Fracture mechanics.

• Stress analysis.

• Non-destructive testing and inspection techniques.

• Finite element analysis and boundary element modelling.

• Numerical and kinematic modelling.

• Metallurgy and materials science, including polymers and composites.

• Performance of control systems, including: pneumatic and hydraulic control systems; locks and interlocks; pressure relief systems.

• Electrical and electronic command and control systems.

• PLCs - programming and safety analysis.

• Software engineering.

• Data acquisition and neural networks.

• Expert systems.

• Technical database development.

• e-Learning.
  

Further Information:

Contact our Business Development Group by telephone (+44) 01298 218218, fax (+44) 01298 218822 or email hslinfo@hsl.gov.uk.

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