MCAD: Consultant Directory: Ares Corporation

Contact Information:
Darrell Bultman

ARES Corporation
555 Oppenheimer Drive, Suite 102
Los Alamos, NM 87544

Office Phone:
(505) 661-6390

E-mail Address:
dbultman@arescorporation.com

Web site:
www.arescorporation.com

About:
ARES Corporation was founded on the premise that complex management and technical problems can be solved most effectively using a multi-disciplined, systems approach. ARES’ Specialty Equipment Engineering Group is an experienced provider of design, engineering, and fabrication services for specialty equipment and integrated systems. A key objective in ARES’ approach is design optimization for best performance, ease of manufacturing, and maximum reliability, availability, and maintainability.

ARES offers the following expertise to help solve our clients’ most challenging engineering problems:

Structural, Mechanical, Chemical, Nuclear, Electrical, and Instrumentation & Controls Engineering
Registered Professional Engineers in all disciplines
Analytical and Numerical engineering analysis
Thermal engineering
Composite materials engineering
Motion Control and Automation
Dynamics, Vibration and Seismic
Damping and Shock Isolation
Stable structures
Optical System platforms
ASME pressure vessels
Glovebox design
National standards based design (e.g., ASME, AISC, AWS, IEEE)
Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) program for quality-affecting work
Fabrication (turnkey or client’s agent)

	Gimbal-mounted X-ray collimator grid and scintillator panel with connecting cone, internal 90 degree turning mirror and cryogenically-cooled digital imaging device.		X-ray imaging system being tested at customer’s facility.
	High-precision vacuum thimble for neutron-transport guide (“light pipe” for neutrons).		Vacuum thimbles at customer’s facility awaiting installation. Aluminum end cap friction welded to centrifugally-cast stainless steel tube; 0.020-inch form tolerance along 12-ft length as-welded condition requiring no post-weld machining of thimble, to minimize cost.
	Laterally-stiff, radially-compliant mount for thermionic dispenser cathode (electron source for particle accelerator) having 1000 degrees C temperature gradient along 11-inch length.		Cathode and its mounting structure assembled to water-cooled power source.
	Pulsed Gamma Neutron Activation Analysis (PGNAA) machine for assaying toxic heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium) mixed with radioactive wastes stored in 55-gallon drums.		Assay machine in operation.
	Shock-isolation structure for X-ray scintillator panel (1/4-section cut away).		Assembled structure with scintillator panel installed.
	Vacuum glovebox for containment of high-velocity impact experiments using heavy metal projectiles captured in an internal catch tank.		Stress plot of glovebox walls resulting from differential pressure loading (vacuum).