Sports Equipment Design & Analysis
We Offer
Design, analysis and component drawings for high-end light-weight sport and motorsport equipment.
Experience
Our team have an extensive background in providing unique solutions to the challenges faced by elite individuals and teams.
Unrivalled Agility
We provide an agile approach to the fast delivery schedules often required by sports individuals and teams.
Our Capabilities
General
- Metallic & composite structures
- Integration of metallics & composites
- Close ties with specialist manufacturers
- Multi-objective system optimisation
- Linear & non-linear structural analysis
- Linear & non-linear buckling analysis
- Fluid flow assessments
- Advanced vibration analysis
- Multi-physics analysis
Motorsport
- Race-car monocoque structural design
- Optimisation for strength, stiffness & weight
- Impact & static loading simulations
- Aeroelastic structures optimisation
- Monolithic & sandwich panel structures
- Laminate analysis & materials selection
- Design for high-temperature environments
- Network of third party manufacturers
Sport
- High-performance equipment
- Modernising legacy sports kit
- Aggressive structural optimisation
- Sport-specific aerodynamics
- Identification of marginal gains
- Bespoke training rigs
Client Case
CFRP Hang Glider Batten Design and Analysis
Frewer Engineering designed a bespoke Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) spring batten for a sports hang-glider. The device formed a lightweight pre‑loaded spring arrangement towards the trailing edge of the hang-glider sail, to improve the trade-off between manoeuvrability and glide efficiency which typically exists in hang-glider design. The batten had very specific requirements for low weight, loaded and unloaded curved shape, and variable bending stiffness along its length.
