Have CFD/FEA/PLM Skills, Will Travel

摘要

Tom Marinaccio tends to get distress calls from people trying to understand why something has failed, usually with the need to find an answer and fix it in a narrow window of time. He describes a typical call as follows: "[The plant operator] had some ideas what the problem was. The material that forms the thermal protection inside a furnace seemed to be eroding more quickly than expected. They had 10 plants. They operated them the same way. But at that particular one, they were getting warning signs. The outside of the furnace was hotter than it should be. They knew something had gone wrong inside, but didn't know what."