Stadco's specialists in durability can design and develop structures with the ability to meet a combination of abuse loads (strength) and cyclic loads (fatigue). In the case of abuse loads these are well understood, however the cyclic loads generally require measured road load data.

Stadco's relationship with the top testing houses across the world gives us the capability to capture real road load data to cover all our customers' requirements, however unique.

With the transition to virtual product development the need for cyclic loading is fundamental to delivering optimum structures. To overcome these issues associated with having measured road load data Stadco have developed a capability of virtual road load data simulation. This allows the prediction of forces into the structure for all events associated with a vehicle durability schedule, such as Pave, chuck holes, potholes, etc.

Stadco's process enables the complete vehicle optimisation much earlier in the vehicles design development cycle and results in optimum structures from a weight perspective.

By integrating the Stadco FEA specialists into the design team the results are incorporated into the product at the earliest possible stage significantly reducing re-design costs. Our specialist have access to a range of Durability software solutions including LS-Dyna.