With personnel of the firm being former aerospace OEM and government engineers, the AP/ES team brings decades of experience to the table. Areas of competence include: Stress & Failure Analyses: experienced aircraft stress analysts, finite-element modeling specialists, microstructure experts, and unique fractography capabilities get to the root causes of the engineering problem in question. Service Life Assessments: using advanced and existing technologies, AP/ES and strategic partners can provide customers with criticality overviews and specific structural integrity evaluations tailored to their unique structural systems and fleets. Assessments address the impacts of maintenance and inspection programs on cost, fleet readiness, and structural safety. Tackling Fatigue & Fracture, AP/ES personnel have diverse expertise in disciplines such as damage tolerance, crack nucleation, durability, corrosion fatigue, holistic life assessments, spectrum analysis and generation, and mechanical testing. In the arenas of Process Development and Automation, the firm's software developers have extensive engineering experienceenabling them to provide custom solutions to meet the customers' needs. Automating repetitive analytical tasks, parsing and evaluating results, linking and porting software, and developing specialized programs, macros, and reports are all day-to-day examples.
