Services.

Engineering Design

Our in-house solutions for vehicle chassis, variable buoyancy systems, power and propulsion enable us to design and build vehicles to suit our client’s needs. We also offer expertise in:

  • custom design of fibre-optic and electrical penetrations;
  • pressure tolerant battery and electronic systems;
  • lightweight pressure vessels;
  • pumps;
  • motors.

Pressure and Cyclic Testing Facilities

RADS facility includes five test pressure vessels which are available to clients to test materials, equipment, electrical and electronic systems for deep sea and other pressure applications.  RADS provides regular hydrostatic testing of high value parts for Royal Australian Navy vessels, including Collins-class submarines and scientific instruments for high level scientific groups in Australia and the United States of America.

Cyclic Testing

Two of our pressure vessels are horizontally mounted, water filled vessels (490mm ID x 1,610mm deep). They can be heated or chilled (nominally 10°C to 80°C). Both are fitted with accumulators and auto pressure pump and relief systems.  These vessels can be set for testing pumps, cyclic testing parts and hydroclave manufacture of composite parts.

Materials Testing

Using a 980 kN test frame specimens can be strain gauged and stressed to provide otherwise elusive, non-linear input data (required for finite element analysis). Friction co-efficient testing under actual stress and at controlled temperatures down to -5°C can also be conducted.