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We are a professional engineering firm specializing in modification design, engineering analysis, an Established in 2014.

Rochester New York engineer company specializing in consultation/design, Finite Element Analysis(FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) & pipe stress. XCEED Engineering was started in 2014 by two engineers in the nuclear industry. Since then, we've grown and provided services for many industries. Before we started the company, we were working as engineers at a nuclear power plant. We led dozens of projects, always focused on ensuring the health and safety of the public. But the projects also needed to be efficient. With the price of electricity so low, there wasn't a lot of money available to waste on unnecessary stuff. This is where we honed our skills, only doing what was necessary, and cutting out things that just didn't need to be done. As Engineers, the founders of XCEED were chosen to lead engineering for the Fukushima FLEX project. The average spend on this was expected to be around $50M per nuclear plant. We worked with project management and site management to help reduce the cost of the project by about $8.8M.

10/09/2026

Most products do not fail on the test bench. They fail at the bottom of a truck.

A corner drop from a pallet or a forklift is over in a few thousandths of a second, which is why it is so hard to see what actually went wrong. Drop test simulation slows that moment down. It shows which corner, weld, or bracket takes the peak load, and lets you try thicker walls, ribs, or different packaging before you build and break a prototype. You ship a design that already survived the drop. Ask about drop and impact simulation: https://xceed-eng.com/fea-consultants/

10/07/2026

Outage season finds cracks. It does not tell you why they are there.

Grind it out, weld it up, restart, and the same crack is often back by next outage. Cracks that come back are usually fatigue, and fatigue has a cause: a stress hot spot that gets loaded over and over. A fatigue analysis finds that hot spot on the model, shows why the part keeps cracking there, and tests the fix before anyone welds anything. You go into the next outage with a repair you can trust instead of a date on the calendar. Talk to us before the next restart: https://xceed-eng.com/fea-consultants/

10/05/2026

The part passed every strength check. It cracked anyway.

That is fatigue. A static check asks one question: can this part survive its biggest load once? Fatigue asks a harder one: can it survive the ordinary load a million times? Vibration, pressure swings, and daily start-ups all add cycles, and cracks start at welds, holes, and sharp corners long before anything looks wrong. Fatigue analysis tells you how many cycles a design can take and where it will give up first, so you fix it on the model instead of in the plant. See how we approach fatigue and FEA: https://xceed-eng.com/fea-consultants/

09/29/2026

The code equation says the vessel is fine. The geometry says otherwise.

Code formulas cover the shapes the code anticipated: cylinders, heads, standard nozzles. Real equipment collects things the formulas do not describe, like a repair pad, an unusual nozzle cluster, a support lug welded on in the field, or local thinning right where two of those meet. That is where analysis earns its place, because it evaluates the vessel you actually have rather than the one the equation assumed. Get the geometry evaluated. https://xceed-eng.com/finite-element-analysis/

09/24/2026

Supports are not decoration. Each one is a decision.

Put them too far apart and the line sags, drains the wrong way, and loads the welds. Put them in the wrong place and you turn a flexible run into a rigid one and send the thermal load somewhere it does not belong. Spacing, type, and location all change the answer, which is why support layout belongs in the analysis rather than being sorted out in the field. Get the layout right on paper. https://xceed-eng.com/pipe-stress-analysis/

09/22/2026

Most of an analysis happens before anyone opens the software.

What is the part actually doing in service. Which loads are real and which are worst-case-on-paper. Where is it held, and how rigidly. What failure are we trying to rule out. Get those wrong and the software will still return a beautiful answer to the wrong question. The modelling is the fast part. Deciding what to model is the work. Bring us in early. https://xceed-eng.com/fea-consulting/

09/18/2026

Before you replace a vessel, find out what it can still do.

Equipment that has thinned, corroded, or been re-rated is not automatically finished. Pressure vessel analysis puts a number on remaining capacity: what the current wall thickness supports, what pressure and temperature it can still hold, and what the margin actually is against the code. Sometimes that number says replace it. Often it says you have more runway than the inspection report implied, and a defensible basis for saying so. Get the number first. https://xceed-eng.com/pipe-stress-analysis/

09/16/2026

Red does not mean broken. Blue does not mean safe.

A colour plot is a picture of a result, not a verdict. What matters is what sits underneath it: the loads applied, the boundary conditions, whether the mesh is fine enough where the gradient is steep, and what the peak value is being compared against. Two engineers can model the same part and get plots that look alike and mean completely different things. Read the model, not the colours. https://xceed-eng.com/finite-element-analysis/

09/14/2026

A hot line does not stay the length you drew it.

Heat it up and it grows, and that growth has to go somewhere. If the routing gives it room, it absorbs the movement harmlessly. If it does not, the load lands on a nozzle, an anchor, or a piece of equipment that was never asked to take it. Pipe stress analysis is how you find out which of those you have built, while the line is still on paper. Have a hot line you are unsure about? https://xceed-eng.com/pipe-stress-analysis/

09/11/2026

Rework never shows up in the bid. It shows up in the schedule.

A connection that cannot be welded in the position it was drawn. A brace that lands where a conduit already runs. A bolt pattern nobody can reach with a wrench. None of it is a design error exactly, and all of it costs shop hours. Delegated design done early catches the constructibility problems while they are still lines on a screen, which is considerably cheaper than catching them on a fabrication floor. Keep fabrication moving. https://xceed-eng.com/delegated-design/

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Thursday	7am - 5pm
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