Capabilities
Fusion engineering capabilities: hardware design, ANSYS FEA, and design basis
BFS delivers structural and thermal engineering for fusion and advanced nuclear hardware. When your program needs more capacity, we embed engineers with your team.
- Vacuum vessels, chambers, and ports
- Thermal and structural design of electrodes and plasma-facing components
- Liquid metal cooling and surface behavior
- Structural response to pulsed electromagnetic loads
- Test stand and support frame design, including seismic qualification
- Local stress at bolted flanges, welds, and nozzles (WRC 537)
- Static and transient structural analysis
- Static and transient thermal analysis, including radiation and emissivity
- Coupled thermal-structural analysis
- Nonlinear materials: bilinear, multilinear, and temperature-dependent plasticity
- Run-to-failure analysis, including past work validated within 5% of test
- Strain-based acceptance with triaxiality correction
- Ceramic failure probability using Weibull statistics
- Modal analysis and dynamic amplification
- Mesh convergence and singularity treatment on large models, including work up to 72 million degrees of freedom
- Python automation of headless ANSYS solves and post-processing
- Structural design basis, design criteria, and code of record development
- ASME III Division 4 code strategy, with design-by-analysis where the code is silent
- Requirements traceability from licensing basis to component specifications
- Licensing pathway analysis experience across NRC Parts 50, 52, and 53; awareness of proposed future Part frameworks; and DOE authorization contexts
- Site-specific seismic demand and seismic isolation qualification framing
- Independent design review and verification
Codes & standards experience: ASME BPVC Section III Division 4; ASME VIII Division 2; ACI 349 and 359; ASME BPVC Section III Divisions 1 and 2; ASME NOG-1; AISC N690; ASCE 4 and 43; NQA-1; NUREG/CR-7253; WRC 537.
ANSYS Mechanical, Workbench, and MAPDL with APDL scripting; Python and Jupyter for automation and post-processing.
Embedded structural, mechanical, civil, and thermal engineering support for fusion and nuclear programs, including ANSYS analysis seats on your team. See selected experience.
Need a scoped proposal?
Email jake@brantleyfusionsystems.com with the system, load environment, and decision you need to support.