As a technology house, supporting many different customers, in many different industries, SIMTEQ Engineering has seen it all. From designs born on cigarette boxes and coming to life as manufacturing progresses, to completely virtually designed and commissioned products that saw very little design improvements needed over time. As a technology house, SIMTEQ Engineering has access […]

The steps below show an overview on how to use Topology Optimization (Design by Mass and Volume) correctly (read Doing Topology Optimization right for more background on this subject). This procedure can be used very successfully to create economically designed parts from scratch with minimum effort. The most important aspect of this process is that […]

What is a Modal Analysis? What answers do we get out of it? How is it useful? What does it not tell us? In this article, we’ll discuss where a modal analysis comes from, what it is and to some extent what it is not. We’ll also discuss why we do it, what we get […]

More precisely: “How accurately can an FEA (Finite Element Analysis) predict the real response of a structure?” Let’s start by introducing the typical process (chain) of getting from a real structure to an FEA model with results: Set up 3D CAD (Computer Aided Design) geometry of the real structure Simplify the CAD by removing unnecessary […]

ESTEQ sponsored 3 prizes to the final-year mechanical engineering students at the University of Pretoria for the following categories. Best Student in Aeronautical Design – Carla Ubbink 2nd Place Presentation - Matthew Erasmus Best Poster in Mechanical Engineering - Hendrik Eksteen

We have all learnt through our careers with FEA (Finite Element Analysis) that "tria3 elements are bad" and that "quad4 elements should stay square" for better results but how much worse are tria3 elements (and under which circumstances?) and exactly how bad is a deformed quad4 element when it comes to the results we obtain […]

This year's Baja competition at Gerotek saw 15 companies represented by a total of 26 engineers who acted as design judges at this year's event. ESTEQ is responsible for the judging part of the event and asks engineers from their client base to assist in evaluating the Design reports, Costs reports, Safety aspects and then […]

Medical devices can range from mass-produced stents to custom-made parts like prosthetics or other implants. In either event, these parts need to not only fulfil their function but also need to do so the first time. In the study and development of medical equipment or any other products that interact with the human body, e.g., […]