The Alpha STAR Corporation develops engineering solutions for metallic and composite structures to satisfy customer requirements of performance, life, durability and damage tolerance. Through Alpha STAR offerings, our aerospace, defense, marine, automobile, government agency, and highway-bridge infrastructure customers develop and manufacture products that are safer and of higher quality, at a fraction of the traditional costs and time.

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Our team of experienced in-house professionals and consultants in academia apply state-of-the-art design and analysis technology including commercial FEM and CFD software codes and our award-winning GENOA (Generalized Optimization Analysis) code to provide the following services:

Design and analysis of composite, ceramic and advanced metallic structural systems

• static, dynamic and impact loadings
• environmental conditions: e.g., moisture, cryogenic or elevated temperatures
• optimization and sensitivity analysis
• linear and nonlinear material and structural behavior

Progressive Failure Analysis

• identify failure modes
• assess design and manufacturing flaws
• establish structural integrity and safety
• establish residual strength of damaged components
• account for voids, flaws, ply drops, overlaps and gaps

Simulation of damage events

• impact
• fire

Reliability and risk analysis using advanced probabilistic methods

Life and residual life analysis

• fatigue analysis
• establish accelerated cyclic testing process
• durability and damage tolerance assessments
• repair design and assessment

Simulation of manufacturing processes

• filament winding - identifies voids, ply drop-offs, gaps, overlaps
• near-net-shape fabrication

CFD and coupled CFD/structure analysis

Customized software development