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RigidEngineering™ — SOLIDWORKS Simulation

FEA Analysis Service
in Michigan

Structural, thermal, and modal finite element analysis using SOLIDWORKS Simulation. Fixed-scope projects with full PDF reports and raw data exports. No hourly billing. Michigan-based, remote-capable, 30+ years across automotive, aerospace, defense, and biomedical.

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FEA Analysis Types

Three simulation types. One fixed-scope deliverable.

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Structural / Stress Analysis
Linear static analysis for stress, strain, and displacement under applied loads. Factor of safety mapping. Von Mises stress plots with mesh convergence documentation. Most common analysis for part qualification. From $750.
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Thermal Analysis
Steady-state and transient thermal simulation. Heat flux, temperature distribution, thermal gradients. Coupled thermal-structural for thermal stress. Electronics cooling, engine component, and process equipment applications. From $850.
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Modal / Frequency Analysis
Natural frequency extraction and mode shape visualization. Critical for machine tool design, rotating equipment, and vibration-sensitive applications. Frequency response under dynamic loading. From $800.
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Nonlinear Analysis
Large displacement, contact, and material nonlinearity. Snap-fit, gasket compression, elastomer components, and plasticity. When linear static assumptions are not valid. From $1,200.
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Fatigue Analysis
Stress-life (S-N) and strain-life fatigue simulation. Cycle life estimation, safety factor against endurance limit, hotspot identification. Critical for cyclic loading applications. From $1,100.
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DFMEA + FEA Package
Combined Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis with supporting FEA. Failure modes ranked by risk priority number (RPN) with simulation evidence for structural failure modes. Automotive and aerospace grade. From $2,200.
What You Receive

A report you can actually use.

A lot of FEA reports are colorful stress plots stapled to a PDF. They look impressive and tell you almost nothing about whether your design is safe or what to do if it is not.

Every RigidEngineering FEA report includes:

  • Executive summary — pass/fail against your specified load case in plain language
  • Mesh convergence study — proof that the mesh is refined enough that the answer has stopped changing
  • Boundary condition documentation — every load, every fixture, every material property, every assumption explicitly stated
  • Result plots — Von Mises stress, principal stress, displacement, factor of safety maps at the requested load cases
  • Design recommendations — if the part fails, where to add material, change geometry, or adjust tolerances
  • Raw data export — CSV or Excel of nodal results for your own post-processing
  • RigidVault provenance record — cryptographic timestamp of the analysis on the delivery date, proving the analysis existed for IP or regulatory purposes
30+
Years
Engineering experience
4
Industries
Auto · Aero · Defense · Med
5–10
Days
Typical FEA turnaround
1
Patent
USPTO Provisional filed
Questions

FEA analysis service — answered.

At minimum: a CAD model of the part (SOLIDWORKS, STEP, or IGES preferred) and a description of the load case — what forces, pressures, or temperatures the part will experience and where. We also need material specification (grade, condition) and any acceptance criteria (maximum allowable stress, displacement, or temperature). If you do not have all of this, the discovery call is where we work it out together.
Standard structural analysis: 5–7 business days. Thermal or modal: 6–8 business days. Nonlinear or fatigue: 8–12 business days. Rush delivery available — mention it on the discovery call and we build it into the scope. Turnaround is always confirmed in writing before work begins.
A failed FEA is actually the most valuable outcome — you found the failure in software, not in a prototype or in the field. Every report that shows a part failing includes design recommendations: where to add wall thickness, what fillet radius to increase, how much to change a load path. We can also run an optimization study to find the minimum-weight design that passes the load case.
SOLIDWORKS Simulation handles the vast majority of structural, thermal, and modal FEA requirements for commercial and industrial product development. It is used widely in automotive Tier 1 and 2 supply chains. For highly specialized analyses (computational fluid dynamics, explicit dynamics for crash or impact, large-scale FEA with millions of degrees of freedom), we will tell you honestly if a different solver is more appropriate — we do not fit every problem to one tool.

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