HYTEC occupies 7000 square feet of laboratory, prototyping, testing, and office space in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The company also maintains offices in Washington, D.C., to support the needs of our East Coast clients, and in Boulder, Colorado. HYTEC is committed to maintaining a suite of state-of-the-art tools to maximize the efficiency and creativity of our engineers and designers.

Design/Analysis/Software Tools

Commercial tools such as NASTRAN, FEMap, ESAComp, COSMOS/M, COSMOSWorks, or MATLAB are used to validate our engineering designs.

Our engineers also create custom analysis, simulation, data acquisition, and test automation programs using MATLAB, IDL, MathCAD, Mathematica, LabView, and Visual Basic.

In projects requiring software development, extensive experience is also available in IDL, C++, FORTRAN, Visual Basic, and LabView.

Our design staff has extensive experience in 3D solid modeling and design using UG, Pro/E, SolidWorks, and AutoCAD.

Laboratory and Test Equipment

The HYTEC Los Alamos facility includes 3000 square feet of product development space and testing facilities.

Mechanical

• 5 ton overhead crane
• Static load frame
• Electromagnetic and piezoelectric shakers
• Load cells, accelerometer, displacement and strain gages
• Data acquisition and digital signal processing equipment
  
• Measurement of thermal expansion coefficients and residual stresses.
  
• Material inspection and metrology equipment (granite table, micrometers, stereo-microscope, etc.)

Thermal:

• Vacuum tank with optical quality window
• Temperature controlled chamber
• Temperature controlled fluid loops and phase change cooling system
• High resolution, large channel count, temperature monitoring equipment
• Flow meters, strip heaters, and controllers
  

Optical:

• 4x8 foot isolated Newport optics table
• Dark room
• Laser interferometry measurement equipment
• Laser sources, lenses, PZT controlled mirrors, optical fiber systems, CCD cameras, etc.