DC White Consulting Engineers

DC White & Partners is a structural design optimisation and mechanical engineering consultants company founded in 1987. With several years experience within the industry DC White & Partners has built an excellent reputation within the industry offering innovative solutions to various industry sectors such as power generation (nuclear, conventional and renewable), food process (materials handling, drying and blending), petrochemical (pressure vessels and piping systems) and research physics (specialist pressure vessels and test facilities. We use the very best technology for all of our services to ensure accurate and cost effective results. Our team of experts also has the capabilities and resources to design and create our own software to use for specific or complex problems.

Finite Element Stress Analysis

Here at DC White & Partners, we are able to perform stress analysis on a wide range of mechanical or structural components. Our highly skilled and experienced team of staff are also able to write their own specialist software for problems that extend beyond our standard limits. Our service is accurate and cost-effective. Our stress analysis service can be used for design substantiation of machinery and structures, design verification to national and international standards and validation of machinery and structures (fitness for purpose). To do this, we use a wide range of analytical tools, including: SolidWorks, Mathcad, COSMOSWorks Advanced Professional and Geostar.

Design Optimisation

We provide a fantastic design optimisation service. Our many years' of experience in providing this service has led us to create optimised products of the highest standards. An optimal product can be defined as being one that meets its performance requirements most economically. We can optimise new or existing designs and solve all manner of engineering problems. If you have a technical problem with your machinery or even need us to create a piece of bespoke machinery to suit a particular need, contact DC White & Partners where we are confident we will be able to help.

Vibration Problems

We offer various services to solve seismic problems. We are skilled in seismic assessment of critical plant, seismic design, seismic monitoring, inspection of earthquake damaged plant and recommendations for repair to earthquake damage. We can offer seismic design for a variety of structures and components from pipework design to emergency cooling towers for nuclear power stations - the range really is that wide. Our highly skilled engineers are experienced in various areas to meet all seismic industry demands. They can offer vibration measurement, structural mode measurement, long term monitoring, computer modelling, remedial measures and more.

Bespoke Equipment

Many problems can only be solved using unique, tailor-made pieces of equipment. DC White & Partners are able to design and then manufacture these pieces of equipment through its sister company Altoona Ltd. Examples of equipment include; Tri-Axial Excitation Device used down pre-drilled boreholes at depths of up to 5 meters, Paddle Mixer Shaft Removal Dolly, designed to allow installation through small access panels in the end faces of the drier, Four-Point-Bend Rig capable of performing static and fatigue tests and Tower Dampers.