Advanced composite materials

Atkins offers unrivalled experience in the design and analysis of advanced composite materials.

Atkins has developed extensive composite materials capability and experience in aerospace. These lightweight materials are now being harnessed across our other sectors, such as power generation, highways and transportation, and across the built environment. Indeed, composite materials such as carbon fibre-reinforced polymers (CFRP) offer impressive strength to weight ratios; some estimates suggest up to a 20 per cent improvement over traditional metallic materials.

By coupling our capability and experience with client responsiveness and a comprehensive project management offering, we aim to be the composite materials consultancy of choice.

Our technical capability covers:

• Analysis methods development
• Inter-lamina stress and integrity analysis
• Buckling analysis
• Innovative lay-ups
• Rapid sizing of aerostructures
• Structure configuration optimisation
• Finite element analysis
• Aero and inertial-elastic tailoring