COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES ENGINEERING
Constraint-Driven Optimization for Aerospace Structures
DUROWORKS optimizes highly loaded structural parts, especially brackets, fittings, mounts, supports, reinforcements, and structural interfaces, around a selected design constraint or combination of constraints, such as mass, strength, stiffness, load path, durability, manufacturability, cost, or design-build-test iteration speed.
Targeted Structural Optimization
DUROWORKS applies AI-assisted Computational Structures Engineering, aerospace experience, and practical engineering judgment to develop efficient, manufacturable structural solutions.
Improve Structural Efficiency
Reduce weight and improve load paths while preserving or increasing the required strength, stiffness, safety, and function.
Adapt the Design to Manufacturing
Develop solutions around the intended process, including: CNC machining · Additive manufacturing · Die casting · Extrusion
Evaluate Alternatives Faster
Generate CAD-ready concepts that integrate into analysis, manufacturing, test, and release workflows.
Reduce Redesign Loops
Address structural and manufacturing constraints together before committing to the final design.
Start with a Design Evaluation
01 · Evaluate
Review the baseline geometry, loads, interfaces, structural requirements, manufacturing process, and program priorities.
02 · Optimize
Develop and refine structural alternatives using computational methods, AI-assisted tools, and engineering judgment.
03 · Validate and Implement
Support integration of the selected solution with analysis, manufacturing, test, and release activities.
An initial evaluation can lead to a focused pilot project and later expand to additional parts or assemblies.
DUROWORKS, founded in 2018 and led by Sergio Perez Fontana, is the structural engineering business of TECHNAVIA LLC. Sergio is an aerospace engineer with more than 35 years of experience in aircraft design, loads, aeroelasticity, structural analysis, structural integration, and optimization.
His background includes technical and leadership contributions to aircraft programs, including the Boeing 787, Bombardier Global Express, Gulfstream G500 and G600, and the Supernal eVTOL aircraft.
DUROWORKS supplements aerospace design-build-test programs with advanced structural optimization methods, industry knowledge, and direct senior-level engineering involvement.
Current focus: design evaluations and pilot projects for aerospace startups and rapid-iteration development programs.
A highly loaded general aviation wing-to-body fitting was evaluated through organic and prismatic design studies.
The work combined structural analysis, material distribution, geometry development, manufacturing considerations, and design refinement.
25% Weight reduction
15% Estimated cost reduction
The project demonstrates how DUROWORKS converts optimization results into practical structural geometry rather than delivering disconnected generative concepts.
Results are specific to the design requirements and manufacturing assumptions of each project.
DUROWORKS is currently accepting inquiries for selected structural parts. Start with a target part, applied loads, design constraints, and the manufacturing process under consideration.
Sergio Perez Fontana
425-508-9304
spf@duroworks.com
www.duroworks.com