Research & Development. . .

Valmont West Coast Engineering / FEA Engineering is well known as a corporation supportive of sustainable innovation initiatives and where the design research is practically integrated into the product development process.

Engineers at Valmont West Coast Engineering integrate research into the design process with confidence knowing that both design and design research can play a leading role in the "fuzzy front end" of development, where corporate intent is clarified and where both incremental and breakthrough concepts are generated.

Valmont West Coast Engineering / FEA Engineering conducts fundamental and applied science and engineering to develop, demonstrate, and deploy new technologies that address the needs of our industrial sector and other customers.

R&D at FEA Engineering is not only responsible for new product development and optimization, but also for making sure that spending is tied to customer needs.

The FEA Engineering ongoing research and development projects include:

  • Stability of Free Standing Structures under Dynamic Induced Loads
  • Methodology for estimating the Vortex Shedding dynamic induced loads
  • Methodology for estimating the drag coefficient for multi-sided tapered beams
  • Methodology for estimating the damping coefficients for multi-sided tapered free standing structures.