Sean Burrows

Background

About Sean Burrows

My team and I help engineers across Australia and New Zealand to utilise physics-based simulation and related computer-aided engineering technologies. We partner with engineering teams to develop in-house capability through workflow development, consultation, customisation, training and support. Technical expertise allows us to evaluate new tools and approaches against the existing best practices for each application and industry. We work with global leaders and local start-ups alike across mining, energy, space, transport, civil, maritime, sport, consumer products, medical, research, education and more. Ask me about: Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Discrete Element Method (DEM) Design optimisation and virtual prototyping Forensic/root-cause analysis Fatigue and fracture Digital twins and predictive maintenance Noise vibration harshness (NVH) vibro-acoustics and vibrational fatigue Impact, blast, drop test and other nonlinear dynamics Geomechanics, foundations, reinforcement, seismic loads Offshore, hydrodynamics, wave and ocean loading Composite failure, embedding, layup, homogenised material models Additive manufacturing, topology and lattice optimisation Engineering code and standard compliance Thermal management Thermal, electrical, mechanical, fluid, structure multi-physics coupled analysis Automation and customisation Surrogate models, ROMs AI for simulation Plus sustainability through simulation, including: Optimising part mass to reduce material and energy needs Tuning manufacturing processes that enable those designs Optimising in-service efficiency of a design/system/process Ensuring equivalent design performance with materials of lower embodied carbon Designing for the variability of recycled material properties Keeping assets in service longer through informed predictive maintenance Iterating retrofit solutions if failure does occur Studying the system response to retrofitting for electrification Explicitly simulating vectors of pollution or mechanical degradation or simply introducing disruptive technologies to market as fast as possible