Sporting goods is continually becoming a more competitive field as we address the needs of athletes pushing speed, endurance, and precision boundaries. Quartus engineers are sports enthusiasts and welcome the opportunity to redefine the limits of athletic ability by pushing the envelope of sporting equipment. We leverage our knowledge of advanced materials, computer aided engineering, and manufacturing methods gained through our work in the aerospace and sporting goods industries to develop lighter, faster, and stronger equipment for your sports application.
Move from concept to reality
Design conceptualization
Solid modeling
Mechanism design and optimization
Composite tooling
Vacuum bag, matched metal, trapped rubber, bladder molding, etc.
Composite material capabilities
Carbon, graphite, Kevlar, Vectran, glass, PBO
Uni-directional tape, fabric, bulk and sheet molding materials
Nano-enhanced matrix prepregs
Injection molded parts
Lightweight metallic structures
Documentation and drawings
Minimize wind tunnel testing
Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analysis
Calculate lift and drag using solid geometry
Optimize for durability and weight
Finite element based analysis methods
Linear, non-linear, impact
Performance optimization
Stiffness/Displacement
Weight optimization of metallic and composite structures
Wall thickness
Composite ply orientation
Stress analysis for metallic and composite materials
Fatigue analysis
CEN/TC 333
EN 14766:2005 Mountain-bicycles
EN 14781:2005 Racing bicycles
Validate equipment performance
Static and dynamic loading
Displacement, strain gage, accelerometer data acquisition
Dynamic frequency response characterization
Can be used to quantify bicycle ride quality, harshness, etc.
