ARLA^® Engineering Service

Introducing Special Applications

• automotive industry (cars, trucks, motorcycles,
  special-purpose vehicles)

• reciprocating machinery (engines with auxiliary 
  drives, compressors)

• marine industry (shipbuilding, offshore equipments)

• track vehicles

• drive systems for aviation and aerospace

• turbomachinery (turbines, pumps, compressors)

• generator drives, electrical machines

• test rigs, laboratory equipments

• mining machinery

• soil boring machines

• crushing machines and cement mills

• excavators, cranes, conveying machines

• construction machinery

• rolling mills

• paper machines

• extrusion machinery + pump drive

• printing press

• machine tools

• hydraulic drives

• any further drive systems with flexible couplings, clutches, absorbers, dampers, gear stages, universal shafts, manual or hydrodynamic transmission, etc. 

Typical applications are given in all domains of rotating machinery and vehicles. The behaviour of gear stages, couplings, or clutches may be solved by computer simulation considering external excitation phenomena (motors, engines, compressors, process excitation functions, etc.).

It is rather important to simulate the behaviour of the overall system in order to learn the effect of every drive element as part of the whole. In some cases the problems of a single drive element can be eliminated by understanding and modifying the total powertrain.

Plant engineers use ARLA's engineering services in the R & D stage in order to learn more about the system behaviour in advance. Prototypes or measurements on the basis of test rig analyses cannot be realized in this domain of industry. The simulation software may be also useful to organize a strategy for predictive maintenance or any troubleshooting. Thus, the service staff understands the reasons for failures or quality problems of the machinery.

Engineers of automotive, ship, or aircraft industry must optimize their products at all development and testing stages. Therefore, the simulation technology applied by ARLA has become a standard strategy to minimize (torsional & lateral) vibrations in order to reduce noise and to prolong life. The testing period can be organized just for the specific improvement of a typical requirement. Usually, testing and simulating are used simultaneously.

Typical applications:

a) automotive applications
vehicle powertrains & engines (including auxiliaries) in cars, trucks

b) shipbuilding applications
simulation of a drivetrain with rudder propeller, analyzing the system behaviour of a crash-stop

c) aircraft applications
configuration of a test rig to determine the dynamic behaviour of helicopter gear boxes

d) turbomachinery applications
analysis of drive trains considering both torsional and lateral vibrations, simulation of high-speed gears

Furthermore, test rig engineers analyze the test equipment using ARLA's engineering services in view of the compatibility with the real system.

Special information are available as downloads: ARLA-Service for Engineers - INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS ARLA-Service for Engineers - RECIPROCATING COMPRESSOR APPLICATIONS ARLA-Service for Engineers - AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS ARLA-Service for Engineers - MARINE APPLICATIONS ARLA-Project Consulting for Engineers

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