Before I make a structure heavier, I find out why it moves.
Finite-element screening, steel and weldment design, and fabrication-ready documentation. I work to EN practice and map it to the US codes, and I hand over calculations you can audit rather than a section size you have to trust.
Selected work
Sanitized case studies
Reactor support platforms — preliminary structural assessment
A staged linear-static study of a three-module bolted platform carrying two new reactors alongside an existing one. Over three revisions the governing lateral displacement fell 57 → 30 → 17 mm. The last millimetre is where the engineering judgment lives.
In preparation · weldment design and fabrication documentation · sheet-metal DFM study · GD&T drawing set
Capabilities
What I can be handedAnalysis & calculation
- Linear static FEA screening
- Eigenvalue buckling · second-order checks
- Bolted and welded connection verification
- Load-case definition and load-path assessment
- Serviceability and drift limits
Design & documentation
- Structural steel · platforms · support frames
- Weldments and machine frames
- Sheet metal · DFM review
- GD&T drawing sets
- Fabrication and erection documentation
Standards & tools
- Working · EN 1993 · EN 1090-2 · EN 206
- US equivalence · AISC 360 · AWS D1.1 · ASCE 7 · ASTM (mapping to EN)
- SolidWorks · SolidWorks Simulation
- Tekla Structures
Working together
RemoteI take work that is fully deliverable at a distance: calculations, simulation, drawing sets and specifications. I am in Argentina, which puts my working day inside US business hours with no overnight gap — a question sent at 9 a.m. Eastern is answered the same morning, not the next one.
If you have a structure or an assembly you are unsure about, send the geometry and the loads and I will tell you what I would check first, and what it would cost to check it.