• Space structures such as central tubes, structural panels, antenna reflectors, struts and support structures. 
• Aerospace components including probe holders, booms, fuselage modifications, winglets, and landing gear elements. 
• Industrial lightweight structures for optical benches, machine tools, railway components, medical devices, and adaptive structures. 
• Pressure vessels and composite tanks requiring high-strength and stability calculations.

INVENT offers comprehensive structural analysis services tailored to lightweight composite and hybrid structures. With more than 25 years of experience, the team supports the design, optimisation, and verification of complex components across space, aerospace, and industrial applications. The service covers the full analytical spectrum—from material modelling to detailed structural simulation—ensuring that composite-specific behaviours such as fibre orientation, laminate stacking, and sandwich interactions are accurately represented. 

Composite-specific expertise - INVENT specializes in structures made from high-performance composites and composite/metal hybrids. Since fibre composites are constructible materials, structural properties can be tailored through fibre selection, fibre orientation, matrix material, and laminate design. Dedicated analytical tools and numerical methods are used to derive laminate properties and evaluate composite structures. 

Wide range of supported components - typical analysed components include:

• composite and composite/metal hybrid structures
• sandwich structures
• bonded and mechanical joints
• inserts and load-introduction elements 

Analysis capabilities - the service portfolio covers a broad range of simulation types:

1. Linear static analysis

2. Non-linear static analysis

3. Stability analysis

4. Linear-dynamic simulations

Calculation tools - INVENT uses industry-recognized software tools to achieve high-fidelity results:

ANSYS – numerical analysis
NASTRAN – numerical analysis
ESACOMP – composite property and laminate design tool

Mission-driven structural optimisation - across all projects, the aim is to optimise mass while maintaining structural integrity, stability, and functional performance. This includes evaluating the influence of thermal loads, mechanical interfaces, and multi-material junctions. 

Cross-industry experience - INVENT’s structural analysis supports complex lightweight designs in space, aviation, and industrial systems—such as satellite primary structures, aircraft modifications, adaptive structures, and pressure vessels. These diverse applications ensure robust methodologies and cross-validated analysis strategies.

INVENT’s structural analysis services can be tailored to customer-specific requirements. The level of detail, modelling approach, and analysis extent can be customised depending on mission needs, load cases, materials, and acceptance criteria. Variations such as laminate optimisation, hybrid-material modelling, detailed insert or joint analysis, and specific dynamic environments are handled within standard workflows. Additional customisation—such as extended environmental simulations, complex multi-body interactions, or qualification-driven verification packages—can be provided at added cost. The team can also integrate customer-specific material datasets, CAD geometries, and load definitions to ensure full compatibility with system-level requirements.