Building Custom Systems

SDI has built a variety of custom systems specifically designed for our end-users/customer needs.  Among such systems include electron-beam spectroscopy high-vacuum chamber, 3-D motion control systems, photonic measurement platforms, data acquisition systems and high-vacuum chambers with specially adapted linear/rotary translation mechanisms, optical access, fiber optic ports, electrical connectors, turbo-melecular and cryogenic pumping schemes.

Engineering Consulting Services

Fluid dynamics and virtual instrumentation interfacing (i.e. the latter using National Instruments LabView.)  Specific expertise in vacuum science, optomechanical systems, motion control, optical assemblies, laser/particle beam diagnostics and rarefied gas dynamics.

Design/Solid Modeling:  2-D and 3-D CAD, Product Data Management, conceptual design, detailed design, integrated optimization, animation and motion.

Stress Analysis:  Non-linear, dynamic or cyclic loads, composite materials, contact analysis, fatigue, drop test analysis, force, pressure, gravity and centrifugal loads.

​Heat Transfer:  Conduction, convection, radiation, integrated solutions, isotropic, orthothropic and temperature dependent material properties.

CFD:  Internal & external flows, transient & compressible flows, dynamic adaptive meshing, non-Newtonian fluids, porous media & moving wall rotating reference frame, cavitation & humidity effects, multiphase conditions.
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SDI can help you with cost-effective solutions for your scientific/engineering research projects.