Wishing all our friends, customers and suppliers a happy Christmas and a healthy 2021! After a year of lockdowns, restrictions and virus-dodging, we’re very much looking forward to getting out and about again as soon as safely possible! In the meantime, please...
The start of a new engineering design project often brings with it more questions than answers, ranging across many topics such as form, function and choice of materials. In this light, it’s understandable that composites sometimes lose out to more traditional...
This week at #OrthotropicEngineering we’re marking the successful completion of our second full year in business. Fair to say that it’s been an unexpectedly eventful few months so we’re extremely grateful to our clients for their custom, enabling our...
The sun shines when it shines and the wind blows when it blows: But when it’s both dark and calm, it’s not possible to take advantage of the ever-increasing wind and solar capacity installed in and around the UK. It follows that energy storage is one of...
The problem: How to double-check that our load cell and logger are providing accurate data? Our solution: A 20kg calibrated weight, a balanced lever and some low-friction bearings. Timescale: Less than a day from concept to fully specified and verified design....
Today we say hello to James Tomlinson who will be spending a few weeks with us before completing his last year at the University of Bristol. Enrolled on the Engineering Design course, James has a particular interest in composite materials, so is well placed to help us...
Ten weeks into our #moistureconditioning programme and we’re finding some real variety in the rates at which different #epoxyresin systems gain weight in seawater: Particularly interesting as all ten systems are intended for similar applications! It’s...
At moments like this, it’s nice to get the occasional reminder of happier times! So we were really pleased to receive some pictures from a happy client of the bridge that we designed last year. Looking pretty smart in-situ in France, the bridge was designed by...
Since taking delivery of our first batch of waterjet cut headbands 2 weeks ago, we’ve now processed, boxed and shipped 900 visors to GP surgeries, hospitals and care homes across 5 counties! Just 100 to go to reach our target of 1000…. Prior to bagging and...
In our last blog post, we presented a face visor that we’ve adapted from an open-source design for 3-D printers. Our adaptation is to cut the headbands from 10mm HDPE plastic sheet by waterjet (instead of 3D printing). Following an incredible response to a...
