THERMAL / STRUCTURAL FEA Testimonials

Thermal/Structural FEA
Thomas Noll – SEMICOA – Costa Mesa, CA

“Gabe has done an excellent job of providing FEA analysis for several new products we are developing. He has been very resourceful in researching material properties and has provided extremely useful data enabling Semicoa to make critical decisions on new packages. His responses have always been very timely and he has been accommodating to the schedules we have set. His reports have been of a very high quality, so much that we have included them in a published paper and in press releases for new products. I highly recommend FEA SERVICES and Gabe and will continue to utilize his services in the future.”

Thermal/Structural FEA
Jaime Carrera, P.E. – VARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR – Austin, TX

“The entire process from the initial model submission to the analysis of the results went very smoothly. Breaking the project down into two phases allowed us to understand the overall performance of our frames as well as focus on specific high-load areas in greater detail. The formatting of the results presentation saved me hours of prep time as I was able to use the actual file without editing for my discussions with upper management.”

Thermal/Structural FEA
Brian Callahan, Ph.D. – XRD, Inc. – Beaufort, SC 

“Mr. Dambaugh of FEA SERVICES was a pleasure to work with, and he got the job done within budget and ahead of time. He was diligent, insightful, professional, timely, polite, and a good teacher. Ours was an unintuitive, complex problem, but he handled it with ease. The revised component survived the abuse, and helped our engine become the first and only heavy fuel solution in its class ever to pass the US Army’s endurance qualification test for unmanned airplanes.”

Thermal/Structural FEA
Curt Lindstrom – ADAMS THERMAL SYSTEMS – Canton, SD

“I was very impressed with the FE analysis methodology development FEA SERVICES provided our company. Technically they presented a unique proposal to a challenging problem. I found FEA SERVICES project management to be exceptional. Whereas I typically end up managing my outside FE analysis, FEA SERVICES provided a detailed time line and delivered all tasks on schedule at budget.”

Thermal/Structural FEA
Aaron Micetich – EGIDE USA – Cambridge, MD

“Gabe Dambaugh of FEA SERVICES was a pleasure to work with. He has an excellent grasp of engineering on a conceptual level that allowed a fast and effective approach to the problem. The time spent in developing models was directed by data created during the model process and Gabe was flexible and helpful in advising the best approaches to take. He even offered advice for experimental methods during the problem solving process. The end result was a model showing exactly what we experienced as failure location and mode. The model pointed us down a solution path not previously seen until the model and associated testing pointed in the right direction. We saved weeks of hypothetical-question based testing.”

Thermal/Structural FEA
Duane Boes – CALLIES PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS – Fostoria, OH

“The people at Callies Performance Products would like to thank all those at FEA SERVICES who were involved with the evaluation and development of our recently implemented crankshaft modifications. Your company’s support has greatly helped us in eliminating a long standing product weakness. Recommended changes in both material and design appear to have solved the problem. We appreciate the quick response and your attention to the details of our project.”

Thermal/Structural FEA
Charles Runkle, Ph.D. – CELGARD – Charlotte, NC

“In late 2002 we were developing a new 14in product for a broader industrial ultra-pure water market.  I was using a thermoplastic containment vessel design.  The 14in tubular vessel itself is a thermos-formed PVC pipe, and in early prototypes we had some serious durability concerns about the PVC end caps, and chose to develop a cast nylon end cap for the production design.  With the considerable help from Gabe Dambaugh, we completed that design with extensive FEA of the stress profiles in the end cap geometry, and are confident that structural durability and strength are much improved by using the cast nylon approach.”