[alpalpalp]

We have received enough promising replies. For now we would like to consider their offers. Consider this post deactivated. Thank you for your attention, and thank you cfd-online.com team for the platform.



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Greetings,

I work for a hydraulic cylinder production company as an IT consultant. They are specialized in large custom cylinders of up to 2 meters of diameter and 23 meters of length.

The company has been using ANSYS for stress analysis. As far as I know, they mostly do FEA. But considering how they are a hydraulics company and how fem-online.com points to cfd-online.com, I hope this post is not completely out of place in CFD Freelancers. If so, feel free to point me to a more appropriate location.

I attended the ANSYS tutorial with the engineers back when they bought the program several years ago, so I can tell you that what they do involves deleting some details on the part, generating meshes and plotting colored stress graph and such. But they probably do other stuff as well. Excuse my lack of knowledge in mechanical engineering and please bear with me

Their original staff trained in ANSYS left the company and their needs have changed as well. Since the company is in need of fresh training, they are currently at a crossroads as to whether they move forward with ANSYS, or start using something else.

I am fond of open source software, so I suggested that they try to find something open source. But they do not think it is possible. Even their FEA consultant told them that "he does not even see a possibility that there would be any open source programs that do FEA". And yet, a simple web search told me about ElmerFEM, code_aster, the FEM Workbench of FreeCAD, and about OpenFOAM's capabilities.

Although I don't know anything about FEA, I believe one of these will be able to satisfy their needs. I am open to other open source programs as well. I have managed to convince the chairperson and the technical director to give the open source world a try.

Now I would like to find someone who knows their way around any open source analysis software. I would like to set up an online meeting for this expert, myself, the two employees who are to use the program, and most likely the technical director. I would like the expert to explain the program's capabilities to them. I think 1-2 hours will be enough for them to decide. They are ready to pay.

With all open source programs I have used so far, the user is basically expected to RTFM and learn on their own. That mentality is a bit foreign to this company, so they are going to need some hand-holding. If the expert can convince them, they will work with him/her for quite some time.

If anyone is up for it, I am looking forward to have you contact me. Technical knowledge is a prerequisite, obviously. Turkish knowledge would be a nice to have. Because we (the technical director and I) are concerned that the two employees might have difficulties following the English language. If there is someone who speaks Turkish, great. If not, no problem. We will have a translator.

They will be sending me a list of the exact features they need in the following days. I will post the updates. I just wanted to give anyone who might be interested a heads up several days in advance. So maybe check the post in a few days again?

I hope I can find someone to impress them. You can contact me here on this post or if you want more privacy, through my email address: alp@kayahan.com

Thank you for your time,

Alp


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They have finally sent their requirements

- Detailed mesh training and interpreting mesh status
- Twist analysis and being able to comment on twist cases
- Groove and bolt analysis
- Fatigue analysis and investigation
- Analysis of sealing elements
- Analysis of tensions in assembled and welded structures
- Tolerance accumulation

I did my best translating but some of it may have gone lost in translation. Feel free to ask if anything is unclear.