Aerodine recently completed a significant facility expansion, an expansion project that has allowed us to increase the engineering support we offer clients. We are especially pleased to be able to offer greater support in the motorsport composites arena. If you have used us for motorsport composites before, we hope you will come back to Aerodine for future needs.
We consider engineering support critical to making motorsport composites work. As long as your organization is spending considerable amounts of money on the latest composite materials, you might just as well get the best possible engineering support along with them. That’s what we aim to provide.
To drive home the point, here are four reasons we believe engineering support is so critical to motorsport composites:
Motorsports are highly competitive. Teams are always looking for any edge they can gain. It turns out that the right composites can make all the difference in the world when winning is on the line. But figuring it out often rests in design and analysis.
Engineering support in motorsport composites should offer:
When engineers work with teams on advanced design and analysis, great things happen. They create strong, durable, and lightweight composites capable of putting a team in the winner’s circle.
Along with advanced design and analysis, engineering support should provide advanced manufacturing processes. Engineers create specialized tooling for building unique parts on a production level. They create optimized layup schedules and curing processes.
Most importantly, engineering support for motorsport composites includes quality control measures unique to each and every project. Such measures guarantee not only integrity, but also consistency.
Engineering support for motorsport composites would not be complete without rigorous performance testing. Teams need to know that their vehicles are optimized for performance before they get to the track. That is what performance testing is all about.
A good testing environment includes:
Performance testing is buttressed by full data analysis and performance validation that ensures each and every component is capable of meeting competition demands. Without proper analysis and performance validation, a team never knows how it will perform on the track.
If there is one thing we have learned about motorsports over the years, it is the fact that customization is part of the game. As stated earlier, motorsport teams are always looking for an edge. Customizing cars to gain that edge is common practice. What does that mean to our engineering support team?
It means we need to be extremely flexible. It means we need to be reliable in terms of:
Racing teams cannot afford to wait on engineers who aren’t flexible or fast enough to keep up with an ever-changing racing environment. They rely on engineering support that stays ahead of the game, anticipating future demands and acting accordingly.
In the highly competitive world of modern motorsports, composites are indispensable. They provide the foundation for powerful cars that continue setting records for speed. But behind every championship car is a dedicated racing team. And behind every winning team is reliable and innovative engineering support.
Here at Aerodine, that is the kind of engineering support we work hard to provide our motorsport clients.
