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FEA helps improve the design and accuracy of TLS offshore containers by simulating hazardous or destructive load conditions and failure modes, allowing engineers to understand the physical response of the system.

Here are some of the advantages that FEA brings

• Improved accuracy as any physical stresses that may affect the design is analyzed.
• Improved designs as developers can observe how stresses within one element will affect the material in another connected element.
• Early testing during the development process. Virtual prototyping allows designers to model a variety of designs and materials in a matter of hours, rather than the days or weeks required to produce hard prototypes.
• Increased productivity and revenue as FEA software allows developers to produce higher quality products in a shorter design cycle while using fewer materials.
• Enhanced insight into key design parameters due to the ability to model the interior and exterior of a design. This enables designers to determine how critical factors affect the entire structure, as well as the cause and location of possible failures.
• Optimized use of models, as one common model, can be used to test multiple failure modes or physical events
• Fast calculation times and relatively low investment costs.
• Access to existing experimental results, which can be extracted from the parametric analysis of the validated model and applied to the new model

 
In summary, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) plays a crucial role in improving the design and accuracy of TLS temporary refuge (TR) shelter and blast resistant unit by simulating hazardous load conditions and failure modes.

​The FEA can help all these professionals in the development of parts and products. It will help them to make decisions at all stages of product development and answer questions such as:
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• Will it break?
• Does it deform too much?
• Will it stay together?
• Will it flex?
• Can it be lighter?
• Can it be stronger or more durable?

By using FEA from the start of the development process, you save time and money because FEA allows you to find the right solutions at the product design stage.
 
In today's industries, FEA is now one of the key activities in developing efficient products. Nobody questions the usefulness and power of such a tool.
 
In the design of shelters, explosion-proof containers, if they are designed exactly in accordance with the content of the standard, the design of the shell often does not meet the requirements of the type test. Experienced design engineers, on the other hand, design based on practical experience, and although the designed explosion-proof housing can meet the type test requirements, the weight of the housing is generally heavy and the material and transport costs are high. The use of finite element analysis for design, can effectively shorten the design cycle, while reducing material costs, perfect to meet the application standards, so that new products can be quickly marketed.
 
TLS will take full advantage of the FEA to design and manufacture shelters and blast resistant containers to suit each customer's individual requirements
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