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Consulting Projects
As consultants, LTI has developed numerous customer solutions. Composite solutions have included:
- Utility pole design including
interactive software relating geometry, strength, stiffness and process
parameters. This resulted in the first successful product line of pultruded utility poles.
- A new approach to extractive mineralogy, designing
rotating equipment for an OEM to separate iron ore tailings with over 99%
recovery. LTI continued with prototyping and production of these large, highly
stressed composite assemblies with products now located in eight (8) countries
and over 300 million tons of ore recovered.
- Safe Crossings
- Flare Fittings, Inc.
- The Dow Chemical Company
- Ceramic matrix composites concurrent with coupled field Finite Element Analysis (FEA) in the development
of Inductively Transparent Induction Furnace Vessels. Solutions were developed
for silicon metal processing and for a novel stainless-steel spray coating of
structural re-bar.
- Wastewater treatment reactors for an OEM employing filament
wound containment of media used in reducing biochemical oxygen demand prior to
discharge into public waterways.
- Locomotive Radiator cooling fans used for
high ambient temperature applications worldwide. Contributions include fluid
dynamic design for volumetric flow rate and static pressure, structural
optimization, pultrusion of airfoil blades and integral hinge design for
operation at 700g.
- Intramedullary Bone Reamer using carbon fiber to reinforce
a flexible electrometric resin system. This flexible driveshaft replaced
helical steel springs in providing bi-directional torque and a clean non-fouling
surface for bone marrow removal.
- Other projects have included composite
solutions for hockey sticks, bicycle suspensions, carbon fiber bicycle frames,
concrete forms, bed springs and baseball bats.
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