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Hydraulic components and systems in aircraft and rockets require sophisticated engineering to achieve minimal leakage and maximum confidence, developing safety alongside long term performance. BHR Group's expertise in hydraulic systems and components and over thirty years application experience can be quickly applied to your operational and development concerns.

Clients benefit from a confidential fast response service from a world leading centre in fluid engineering and cost effective access to wide ranging specialist expertise and facilities with:

• Total service packages for complex R&D projects
• Early access to future developments in the field
• Software and facilities for rapid prototyping, component design and material specifications for manufacturing and testing
• Analytical capabilities for use as inputs for risk analysis in design or maintenance contracts
• Failure analysis capability for elastomers and composites
• Established networking with industrial and academic information sources
• Significant independent experience in Sealing Technology
• Unique software for seal life performance prediction

Applications:

• Aging Aircraft
• Air Conditioning
• Cabin Environment
• Cooling
• Fuel Systems
• Hydraulic Control
• Instrumentation
• Sealing
  • Hydraulic Seals
  • Rocket and Turbine Seals
  • Dynamic Seals of all Types
  • Environmental and Electronic System Seals
  • Sealant Systems
• Satellite
• Weapon Packages

Areas of Expertise

• Fluid Systems including design of all sorts of fluid systems and components, Hydraulics, HP/HT and fluid power systems
• Pipelines - covering design of piping of all sorts under a wide variety of conditions
• Sealing technology (including tribology)

Facilities we can call on include software modelling using:

• Non-linear finite element analysis of elastomeric components including:
  • Composite structures and elastomeric components
  • Modelling and life prediction of seals and elastomeric structures
  • Specialised mechanical seal design software
• Computational fluid dynamics simulation of flow in complex components from seal systems to tanks
• Hydraulic network dynamic analysis for fuel, braking, cooling, pneumatic and fluid power systems

and specialised test and physical modelling facilities for

• Rotary, reciprocating and static seal testing
• Fluid stability and contamination testing
• Mechanical testing and analysis of materials
• Blending and small scale manufacture of polymeric materials
• Hydraulics and fluid power systems and components, assessing:
  • leakage
  • fatigue, shock loading and failure
  • vibration and noise
• Site testing of fluid power systems and components
• Polymer/composite material characterisation and surface analysis
• Flow rate and pressure drop measurement
• High speed rotating machinery testing
• Component wear rate measurement
• Fluid and solid borne vibration measurement