Atkins

Established in 1938, with around 14000 staff, Atkins is one of the world's leading providers of professional, technologically-based consultancy and support services:
- turnover of £1.15bn in 2004/5
- largest engineering consultancy in the UK
- largest multi-disciplinary consultancy in Europe
- World's fourth largest global design firm
- Top 30 supplier to the UK MOD
- a top 20 "best big companies to work for" (Sunday Times 2006)
- top of the league of UK engineering consultancies 1994-present (NCE Consultants File).

Engineering consultancy and services provide the foundation for Atkins' reputation and recognised success. We employ thousands of professional engineers - many of whom are acknowledged experts in their individual disciplines - to help clients realise exceptional and successful projects across all markets.

In-depth industry knowledge, and the ability to leverage the broader Atkins capability allows Atkins to deliver small specialised projects through to large multi-disciplinary projects. With over six decades of experience, Atkins has built a reputation of delivering innovative, cost-effective business and engineering solutions.

Our expertise spans all engineering disciplines and associated competencies, including:
- Structural integrity (to BS, ASME, and industry specific codes)
- Acoustics, noise and vibration (testing and simulation)
- Aerospace engineering (engines, structures, and manufacturing)
- Defence (covering air, land, sea and C4I sectors, across the CADMID cycle)
- Marine engineering (pipes/oil rigs/ships)
- Railway engineering (infrastructure/components/vehicles)
- Impact dynamics and crashworthiness
- Turnkey Design, Manufacture and Commisioning
- Fatigue and fracture mechanics - including BS7910 and R6
- Reliability, Safety and Maintainability
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (including explosive blast modelling)
- Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
- Civil engineering
- Geotechnical engineering

Atkins have extensive computer simulation and design experience including all major industry software:
- FE codes: ABAQUS, ANSYS, LS-DYNA, NASTRAN and ASAS (developed by Atkins).
- FE pre-processors: Hypermesh, ANSA, ABAQUS/CAE, ANSYS, Patran, FemGV, and Oasys/Primer.
- CFD codes: Fluent, Star, CFX, Autoreagas (blast modelling)
- CAD design capability includes: CATIA, Unigraphics, AutoCAD, and Microstation.

Please visit our website for more detailed information and contact details:
www.atkinsglobal.com