AI-assisted engineering · Expert-verified
Finite element analysis and stress engineering, built fast with AI and verified by a specialist who can explain every result.
The idea
AI tools now write the scripts, generate the meshes and post-process the results faster than any team could. What they cannot do is answer for the result. That part has not changed: someone has to know what the answer should look like before the model runs, notice when it is wrong, and explain it to the people who will act on it.
Scripted models, parametric studies and visual results in days instead of weeks.
Set up, checked and interpreted by a specialist with a PhD in finite elements and more than ten years of project work.
Every figure traced to its source, with the assumptions and limits stated in plain language.
Services
Five lines of work, one way of doing them. Each engagement is scoped around the decision the analysis has to support, and framed against the applicable codes: ASME, API and DNV.
Global behaviour of a pipeline on the seabed, from installation to operation.
Flexibility, loads and dynamic behaviour of piping and the equipment it connects.
Non-linear models for the problems that hand formulas and code rules do not cover.
Whether a component with a flaw, or with a loading history, is still fit to operate.
Engineering results turned into short animations that a board, a regulator or a client can follow.
Selected work
Each case is a generic, synthetic study built from a model and explained in a couple of minutes.
Buckle by designLateral buckling of a hot subsea flowline
Stick or walkOn-bottom stability: the threshold that decides
The pipeline that walksPipeline walking and thermal expansion
A million wavesFatigue and fracture of a girth weld in a free span
Water hammerHydraulic transients in a gravity main
What the bolts hideBolted flange joint: preload and gasket contact
Steel that turns to glassDuctile-to-brittle transition and fracture assessment
When a train catches its own wavesCritical speed on soft ground · narratedMethod
What decision depends on the analysis? Load cases, limits and acceptance criteria are agreed before any model exists.
Models are scripted, parametric and reproducible. AI tools write and run them in hours, so more cases and sensitivities get explored.
Hand calculations, benchmark cases and sensitivity checks. Whatever the model says has to agree with physics a specialist can explain.
A report where every figure points to its source, the model files and, when it helps, an animation that makes the result clear to non-specialists.
About
JCR Mechanics is the engineering practice of Juan Carlos Ramos, a mechanical engineer with a PhD in the finite element method and more than ten years in piping stress analysis and FEA for oil and gas.
He leads a piping stress discipline for onshore and offshore projects: static and dynamic stress analysis of pipelines and process piping, finite element models for complex integrity problems such as subsea upheaval buckling with soil–pipe interaction, flow- and acoustic-induced vibration in gas metering and filtration skids, and pipe supports with their structural interface, to ASME, API and DNV.
It starts from a simple observation: AI has made building a model fast, but it has not made the answer trustworthy. That still takes someone who has done the calculation by hand, has seen how these systems behave, and can stand in front of a client and explain why the result is what it is.
Every piece in the portfolio was produced that way: scripted and built with AI tools, with every figure traced to its source and independently reviewed before it was published.
Contact
Send the question, whatever drawings and data you can share, and your deadline. You will get back a proposed scope, method and timeline.
Confidential by default: project data is never used in public material.