Quadratec Limited

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Quadratec Limited

• Product Technology Engineers

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Company Activity

• Design, Development and Manufacture of Advanced
  Technology Engineering Products, Instrumentation
  Systems, Production and Test Equipment

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Topics

• Company Introduction
• Gas Turbine Traverser
• Pressure Measurement Array
• Process Monitoring DAQ System
• Other Sensing Systems

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General Background

• Established in 1995
• Background in High Technology Aerospace
  Engineering
• Sophisticated Niche Markets
• Advanced CAE
• Project Management
• In-house Assembly Facilities
• Sub-Contract Manufacture
• Based near Chepstow, South Wales

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Products and Services

• Product Engineering Consultancy
• Design and Manufacture of Automation Equipment
• Design Manufacture of Component Test Equipment
• Design Manufacture of High Speed Rotating
  Machinery
• Design Manufacture of Aerodynamic Test
  Equipment
• Design Build of Data Acquisition and
  Instrumentation Systems

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Typical Markets Clients

• Aerospace Rolls-Royce, TRW, BA, Thales, BAAE
• Automotive Rail Transport Toyota, TRW,
  Westinghouse Brakes, Stant, Kautex Textron,
  Stoneridge Pollak
• Industrial ABB, Aerotech ATE, Laird Group, IMI
  Norgren, Rutherford Appleton Labs
• Power Generation Siemens
• Petro-Chemical Industries John Crane
• Pharmaceutical Medical Bayer, MSS, Pharmatech

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Engineering Capability

• 3D SolidWorks Mechanical Electro-Mechanical
  Design
• Composites Design
• Cosmos FEA, Stress Vibration Analysis
• Rotordynamics Analysis
• CFDesign Computational Fluid Dynamics Heat
  Transfer Analysis
• Digital Analogue Electronics
• NI LabView Control, Systems Design and DAQ
• Engineering Software Development
• Project Management

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Product Engineering Consultancy

• Electro-Mechanical Hospital Bed Design
• Impact Loading Finite Element Analysis
• Head Up Display Design
• Blood Monitor Design
• Off Road Vehicle Suspension Design
• Mass Spectrometer Design
• Missile Detection System Finite Element Analysis
• Security Lock Design
• Building Structural Analysis
• White Good Design

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Engineering CAE

• COSMOS FEA Wind Tunnel Equipment Frequency
  Analysis
• CFDesign CFD Wind Tunnel Equipment Analysis

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DAQ and Control

• Burst Test Rig
• GT Traverser
• Response Test Rig

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Component Test Equipment

• Pressure Test Rig
• Brake Test Rig
• Aircraft Battery Charger Test Rig

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Component Test Equipment

• Pneumatic Component Pressure Test Rig
• Seal Head Tester
• Automotive Ignition Switch Test Rig

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High Speed Rotating Machinery

• F1 Seal Test Rig
• Mech. Seal Test Rig
• Gas Seal Test Rig
• Rotor Spin Rig

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DAQ Instrumentation Application Examples
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Radial Yaw Probe Traverse

• Yaw Module Close-up

• Traverse Unit

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Typical Installation
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Traverse Applications

• Design Process Validation by measuring
• Gas Angles across an Annulus
• Gas Velocities
• Gas Temperatures
• Gas Pressures
• Engine Condition Monitoring
• Blade Pyrometry
• Sector Analysis using Radial Yaw Traverse
• Using Additional Circumferential Traverse
• Using Additional Tangential Traverse

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Tactile Array Pressure Sensors

• Multi-head Discrete Sensors
• Full Brake System
• Pressure Distribution Output

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Technology

• Based on Capacitance Measurement
• Array of Capacitors using Multiple Orthogonal
  Overlapping Strips
• Improved Accuracy over Traditional Resistive
  Sensor

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Range of Sensor Materials
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Embedded Systems

• Customised Array or Discrete Sensor Design
• One Interface with up to 20 Sensors

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Die Casting Machine Process Monitoring System

• Machine Instrumentation
• DAQ Electronics Box
• Local PC Output Display

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DAQ System Output
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Other Sensing Systems

• Gas Turbine Tip Clearance Measurement
• Gas Turbine Internal Flow Test Instrumentation
• Telemetry Pressure Measurement Array
• Telemetry Process Monitoring Systems

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Quadratec Limited

• Product Technology Engineers