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Airbus: When Simulation Turns into Reality Learn More

Airbus: When Simulation Turns into Reality

Dominique Moreau, Head of Airframe Technical Authority, Airbus presents at the 2017 European ATC.

This presentation will present the today’s state-of-the-art numerical simulation and the very latest progress Airbus did on the topic. The presentation will go through what remains to develop in the future so to make numerical simulation much more effective in the design process of an aircraft.

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The Secret Lives of Models Learn More

The Secret Lives of Models

Gael Salles, Director of Computer Aided Product Engineering Technology at Schneider Electric presents at the 2017 European ATC.

After a brief introduction of the changes in the Energy Landscape, an analysis of the life of models will be presented from the viewpoint of system engineering. Along with the paradigm shift in the use of models, the power of the multidisciplinary use of models will be approached such as for Design Space Exploration, Verification-Validation for cyber-Physical offer or maintenance purposes.

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Vehicle Concept and Structure of the New Opel Ampera-e Learn More

Vehicle Concept and Structure of the New Opel Ampera-e

Dr. Hennig Holzmann and Dr. Boris Künkler of Adam Opel present at the 2017 European ATC.

The new Opel Ampera-e offers the customer a great car with the optimum balance regarding performance, package, mass and cost.

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NEVS Uses Simulation Driven Innovation in Car Body Design Learn More

NEVS Uses Simulation Driven Innovation in Car Body Design

Dr. Lars Fredriksson, Business VP – Simulation Driven Innovation at Altair presenting on behalf of NEVS at the 2017 European ATC.

The automotive industry is experiencing ever increasing requirements on new vehicles from all directions. Still, development cycles must be shortened and development costs reduced. Early concept development is a project stage where change costs are low and design freedom large. Thus, improvement of early concept development to mature designs faster and with better design balance must be a key goal of vehicle development.

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To the Moon with Additive Manufacturing - Optimization, Space and Everything in Between Learn More

To the Moon with Additive Manufacturing - Optimization, Space and Everything in Between

Yoram Malka, Head of Mechanical Engineering Department at Israel Aerospace Industry presents at the 2017 European ATC.

Increasing the performance of a system is a constant challenge engineers in all application areas face. This challenge specifically important in the aerospace world where weight reduction is one of the key factors defining the success of a project.

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Artemis Racing’s use of Simulation Driven Design Technology in Pursuit of the 2017 America’s Cup Learn More

Artemis Racing’s use of Simulation Driven Design Technology in Pursuit of the 2017 America’s Cup

Peter Bentley, Design Team Member at Artemis Racing presents at the 2017 European ATC.

The increase in velocity enabled by advanced structural composites and on-board control systems has been a true game changer, and the future of sailing will be increasing dependent on simulation driven design.

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Altair FEKO for Marine EMC Applications Learn More

Altair FEKO for Marine EMC Applications

Altair FEKO is a leading comprehensive electromagnetic analysis software package, which is widely used in many industries and built on state of the art computational electromagnetic techniques to provide users with solutions to a wide range of electromagnetic problems. FEKO has been applied extensively in both commercial marine and naval applications to solve a wide range of EMC problems including antenna coupling and co-site interference analysis, cable coupling and radiation analysis and radiation hazard (RADHAZ) zone analysis.

What are the Concept Challenges? Learn More

What are the Concept Challenges?

See how the C123 process helps you to find concept challenges.

Novum: University of Michigan Participates in Solar Car Challenges Around the World Learn More

Novum: University of Michigan Participates in Solar Car Challenges Around the World

See how Altair's Software is used to get University of Michigan's solar car, Novum, to the next level to compete in the World Solar Challenge in Australia and the American Solar Challenge - crossing an entire continent in both cases just on the power of the sun alone.

Improving Composite Design and Simulation Efficiency with Multiscale Designer Learn More

Improving Composite Design and Simulation Efficiency with Multiscale Designer

Dr. Jan-Philipp Fuhr - Managing Partner, Cikoni talks about developing a methodology to analyze and predict composite matrix and fiber failure using Altair OptiStruct and Multiscale Designer resulting in improved accuracy and simulation efficiency of their simulations.

Motorcycle Crankshaft Modeling with SimLab at BMW Motorrad Learn More

Motorcycle Crankshaft Modeling with SimLab at BMW Motorrad

Learn about the semi-automated motorcycle crankshaft modeling process developed at BMW Motorrad based on Altair's pre- and post-processor SimLab. The scripts developed take the FE model generation time down from 2 weeks of manual work to half a day.

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Design Lightweight and Efficient Stamping Dies with Topology Optmization Learn More

Design Lightweight and Efficient Stamping Dies with Topology Optmization

Ford Otosan in Turkey designs big stamping dies with the help of topology optimization using OptiStruct. Weight savings of 20% were possible on their first attempt to try optimization on a new stamping part.

Schneider Electric Develops Miniature Circuit Breakers with a Multi-Disciplinary System Design Approach Learn More

Schneider Electric Develops Miniature Circuit Breakers with a Multi-Disciplinary System Design Approach

Schneider Electric is a world leader in electrical distribution equipment. Remy Orban, Mechatronic Engineer at Schneider Electric discusses how a multi-disciplinary approach has been successfully applied to design a low voltage circuit breaker actuator, using Altair Flux, MotionSolve, and Activate.

Multiscale Designer Product Video Learn More

Multiscale Designer Product Video

Multiscale Designer can help achieving more accurate and cost saving results by looking into the individual constituent of composite materials. The tool is well suited for woven, short and long chopped fiber composites and integrates with Altair's solvers OptiStruct and RADIOSS, as well as other commercial codes.

Sunshine School Bus Design Story - Industrial Design for Automotive Learn More

Sunshine School Bus Design Story - Industrial Design for Automotive

Sathiya Seeland, Head of Styling for Product Design at Ashok Leyland, presents at Converge 2016 in Bangalore, India.

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Design for High Performance Recreational Products Learn More

Design for High Performance Recreational Products

Pankaj Dubey, Country Head and Managing Director at Polaris India, presents at Converge 2016 in Bangalore, India.

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Designing Optimized Aluminum Castings with Fatigue Life Considerations Learn More

Designing Optimized Aluminum Castings with Fatigue Life Considerations

Andras Tanos, R&D Engineer at FemAlk ZRT, talks about how they have used Altair solutions for topology optimization of an engine part.

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Innovate Philippines' AEC Landscape with Inspire Learn More

Innovate Philippines' AEC Landscape with Inspire

Tony Pimentel from Pimentel & Associates is innovating the Philippines Architecture, Engineering and Construction landscape with Inspire.

Innovative Use of Composites for Organic Architecture Learn More

Innovative Use of Composites for Organic Architecture

In this interview recorded at JEC World 2018, Atanas Zhelev, Chief Architect and co-founder at Digital Architects Ltd., talks about the innovative use of composites for organic architecture.

Composites offer designers the ability to create a material and engineer its properties to resist particular load cases and environments. Such infinite possibilities can be daunting and a big step away from the more conventional way of working with a material having a known set of characteristics.

It is here that architects and structural engineers can be aided by Altair’s software, such as ESAComp, now available as a standalone product in Altair HyperWorks advanced simulation and optimization software suite, to produce efficient, stable and durable composite structures.

Alpla Develops Innovative Packaging Solutions with HyperWorks Learn More

Alpla Develops Innovative Packaging Solutions with HyperWorks

Alpla develops and produces packaging solutions for consumer goods. Christoph Plankel, Head of Modeling and Simulation Department at Alphla, discusses how they have used simulation to produce lighter packaging without compromising on performance.

Rapidly Exploring Electric Vehicle Architectures with C123 Learn More

Rapidly Exploring Electric Vehicle Architectures with C123

To overcome the challenges of developing a vehicle architecture shared across a range of electrical vehicles, National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) leveraged Altair’s unique three stage concept development process, C123 using a combination of optimization technologies, design processes and engineering expertise.

Minimising Interior Noise in Electric Vehicles Learn More

Minimising Interior Noise in Electric Vehicles

National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) leverages use of the Altair Squeak and Rattle Director in identifying and minimising risks of interior noise in electric vehicles.

The Design Revolution Offered by Combining Additive Manufacturing with Simulation Driven Design Learn More

The Design Revolution Offered by Combining Additive Manufacturing with Simulation Driven Design

Topology optimization is a computer based calculation procedure which can design mechanically stressed component structures in such a way that the highest possible rigidity can be achieved with minimal material usage. Only those parts of a component which are essential for the required flux of force and necessary stability are generated. This results in complex structures which can only be built partially or not at all using conventional production processes. At this point the advantages of additive manufacturing come into focus.

Modeling the Induction Heating of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Learn More

Modeling the Induction Heating of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic

Altair’s low-frequency electromagnetic and thermal software, Flux™, offers a complete range of modeling tools able to take into account model specifications and streamline the design process.

Capitalizing on 36 years of innovation in the global context of design optimization and time-to-market reduction, our solution suite is built to assist you. The ATCx Flux™ seminar is an excellent opportunity to discover the latest developments in this best-in-class software. Industry experts will present the latest capabilities and enhancements of Flux™ 2018 - providing a comprehensive view of methodology used for the analysis, design and optimization of modern applications.

Presentation recorded in Troy, MI during ATCx Flux 2018 on March 14, 2018.

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Altair Embed - Efficient Control of AC Machines using Model-Based Development Learn More

Altair Embed - Efficient Control of AC Machines using Model-Based Development

This webinar, hosted by IEEE, focuses on Motor Control using Embed

Use of Composites Materials in Architecture Learn More

Use of Composites Materials in Architecture

Atanas Zhelev and Mariya Korolova (Digital Architects - Vienna, Austria) and Daisuke Hirose (Archicomplex - Tokyo, Japan) made a design proposal for the Architecture competition for a bid at the Varna Library in Bulgaria. Their proposal features a composite of birch wood and carbon fiber laminate which got structurally designed with ESAComp. This video gives a short introduction to the project.

Sella Chair - Form Follows Performance Learn More

Sella Chair - Form Follows Performance

Short video describing the design and production of a design chair by Architect Atanas Zhelev (Digital Architects, Vienna, Austria). This design piece demonstrates the feasibility of his Active Grid Monocoque System (AGM) he uses in his work for highly curved, wide spun architecture. The analysis has been done with Altair products, foremost ESAComp and OptiStruct.

The Digitalization of Biomimicry Design from the Ocean Learn More

The Digitalization of Biomimicry Design from the Ocean

Sebastian Möller, Projektleiter at ELiSE Alfred Wegener Institut, presents at Converge 2017 in Essen, Germany.

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A Tooling Revolution for Plastic Injection Molding Learn More

A Tooling Revolution for Plastic Injection Molding

Stefan de Groot, Technologist Additive Manufacturing at PROTIQ, presents at Converge 2017 in Essen, Germany

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Simulation Driven Design in the Cloud Learn More

Simulation Driven Design in the Cloud

Chad Zamler, Marketing Director of solidThinking, presents at Converge 2017 in Essen, Germany.

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Bend-It – Rethinking Customized Orthopaedic Devices Using Additive Manufacturing Learn More

Bend-It – Rethinking Customized Orthopaedic Devices Using Additive Manufacturing

Dustin Ahrendt and Felix Schmitt from Technische Universitat Dresden present at Converge 2017 in Essen, Germany.

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Design Research Experiences at ZH CoDe Learn More

Design Research Experiences at ZH CoDe

Filippo Nasetti, Senior Associate at Zaha Hadid, presents at Converge 2017 in Essen, Germany.

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Master Class: How to Design for Additive Manufacturing Learn More

Master Class: How to Design for Additive Manufacturing

This Master Class held at Converge 2017 in Essen Germany, presents the making of the 3iPRINT Project, which was a joint effort from csi entwicklungstechnik, APWORKS and EOS.

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Design for the Future: 5 Trends You Need to Know Learn More

Design for the Future: 5 Trends You Need to Know

Christine Outram, Chief Product Officer at Veritas Prep, presents at Converge 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

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Build a Rocket Learn More

Build a Rocket

Tim Morton, Director of Industrial Design at Newell Brands, presents at Converge 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

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Taming Smart Materials to Behave Learn More

Taming Smart Materials to Behave

Doris Sung, Founder of DOSU Studio Architecture, presents at Converge 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

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Additive Manufacturing Design Learn More

Additive Manufacturing Design

Jason Lopes, Production Development Engineer at Carbon, presents at Converge 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

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Towards Real-time Topology Optimization Learn More

Towards Real-time Topology Optimization

Hod Lipson, Professor of Engineering and Data Science at Columbia University, presents at Converge 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

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High Performance, Dynamism and Autonomy for Humans Learn More

High Performance, Dynamism and Autonomy for Humans

Greg Lynn, Principal at FORM, presents at Converge 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

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Mega Data, Mega Structure, Mega City Learn More

Mega Data, Mega Structure, Mega City

Michael Peng, Technical Director and Senior Associate at Gensler, presents at Converge 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

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Development of a New Lightweight Aluminum Profile for a Glass Balustrade Learn More

Development of a New Lightweight Aluminum Profile for a Glass Balustrade

The design of architectural components such as a balustrade can be challenging, since the design does not only have to look good, it also has to meet several safety requirements and standards. In addition, all designs have to be developed within the shortest time possible. To meet these challenges the engineers, architects and designers at Faraone are always looking for solutions that can reduce their design and testing cycles.

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What Can We Learn from Nature for Modern Architecture Structures? Learn More

What Can We Learn from Nature for Modern Architecture Structures?

Eric Rusinol, an Architect from The Sagrada Família Foundation, gives us some insight into the project to finish Antoni Gaudí's iconic Cathedral in Barcelona, touching on the teams use of optimization and concept generations technologies from Altair.

Altair and Ziegler Instruments Combine Experience and Technologies to Identify and Eliminate Squeak and Rattle Issues Learn More

Altair and Ziegler Instruments Combine Experience and Technologies to Identify and Eliminate Squeak and Rattle Issues

Altair has partnered with Ziegler-Instruments to enhance its Squeak and Rattle Director (SnRD), making it the most advanced and comprehensive solution on the market to predict and eradicate squeak and rattle phenomena in vehicles, aircraft and other products sensitive to Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH). The addition of Ziegler-Instruments’ PEM material database gives Altair’s SnRD clients access to the results for over 11,000 individual stick and slip phenomena for different materials pairs.

In this video, Patrick Schimmelbauer and Jens Herting of Ziegler Instruments give an overview of the partnership and what it means to companies needing to address squeak and rattle issues.

Squeak and Rattle Prevention - Why You Should Not Wait for Your First Prototype Learn More

Squeak and Rattle Prevention - Why You Should Not Wait for Your First Prototype

This presentation will discuss how the industry challenges for S&R can be answered using NVH best practices and turn cost avoidance to cost reduction. Altair and ZIEGLER will discuss how to successfully integrate CPA, FE simulation and optimization in the heart of the virtual engineering phases, using the right technology and processes.

This presentation by Patrick Schimmelbauer, Managing Director at Ziegler was recorded at the 2017 Americas ATC East in Detroit, MI.

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Holistic System Performance Improvement Learn More

Holistic System Performance Improvement

Raising efficiency by changing design paradigms for electric machines. This presentation was made at the CWIEME 2017 exhibition in Berlin, Germany, during June 2017

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Efficient Injection Molding Tools through Optimization, CFD Simulation and 3D Printing Learn More

Efficient Injection Molding Tools through Optimization, CFD Simulation and 3D Printing

The company PROTIQ (www.protiq.com) worked with Altair and created a highly efficient molding tool. Optimization with OptiStruct was used to find the optimal design to guarantee the maximum tolerances of the generated products. The cooling process of the product was simulated with CFD (AcuSolve). As an overall result, the cycle time could be significantly decreased and the part quality also improved due to lower thermal deformations.

We Have the Tools, But Let’s Not Lose Sight of the Knowledge Learn More

We Have the Tools, But Let’s Not Lose Sight of the Knowledge

Rafa Corell, CEO at Indigraf, presents at Converge 2016 in Essen, Germany.

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Space 4.0 or the Next Paradigm for the Space Industry Learn More

Space 4.0 or the Next Paradigm for the Space Industry

Franck Mouriax, General Manager of Structures at RUAG Space, presents at Converge 2016 in Essen, Germany.

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Master Class: Using a Crowdfunding Tool for a Start-up Learn More

Master Class: Using a Crowdfunding Tool for a Start-up

David Suriol, Co-Founder of Vortex Bladeless, presents at Converge 2016 in Essen, Germany.

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Designing APWorks’ Light Rider – How the First 3D-Printed Motorcycle Came to Life Learn More

Designing APWorks’ Light Rider – How the First 3D-Printed Motorcycle Came to Life

Daniel Schneider, Technical Sales Manager at Airbus APWorks, presents at Converge 2016 in Essen, Germany.

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Biomimetically Inspired Topology Optimization Learn More

Biomimetically Inspired Topology Optimization

Irmgard Lochner, Professor and Consultant at University of Applied Sciences of Biberach, presents at Converge 2016 in Essen, Germany.

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Keynote: Modern Architecture – Design Process, Tools and Technology Learn More

Keynote: Modern Architecture – Design Process, Tools and Technology

Neb Erakovic, Director Structural Design at CH2Mmace, was a keynote presenter at Converge 2016 in Essen, Germany.

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Optimization of Railway Bolster Bracket for Antiroll Bar Learn More

Optimization of Railway Bolster Bracket for Antiroll Bar

Juan Manuel Romero Cortes, Calculation Lead Engineer at Alstom Transport Spain, presents at Converge 2016 in Essen, Germany.

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Functional Architectural Sculpture Learn More

Functional Architectural Sculpture

Il Hoon Roh, Artist/Architect, presents at Converge 2016 in Essen, Germany.

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Solid CPV Modelling with ESAComp & ComposicaD Learn More

Solid CPV Modelling with ESAComp & ComposicaD

Solid modelling has been added to the existing analysis module for composite pressure vessels. The videos in this playlist describe the modelling approach and workflow in detail.

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Efficient Electromagnetic Actuator Prototype Design with Flux Learn More

Efficient Electromagnetic Actuator Prototype Design with Flux

Bitron is an automotive company producing mechatronic devices, such as actuators, sensors and switches. Siska Verhamme and Pablo Avarez, both Engineers at Bitron, describe their challenges and how Flux can help them, to accelerate the design process.

National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) Learn More

National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS)

Due to a long-standing relationship with Altair and its HyperWorks suite of simulation solutions, NEVS approached Altair ProductDesign to see if the interior quality issue could be tackled with simulation. To perform the project, Altair ProductDesign worked on site alongside NEVS Interior
Simulation Team to implement Altair’s Squeak and Rattle Director (SnRD).

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Sujan CooperStandard Achieves Lighweighting & Performance Targets with Altair Learn More

Sujan CooperStandard Achieves Lighweighting & Performance Targets with Altair

Sujan CooperStandard uses solidThinking Inspire, OptiStruct and HyperMesh to design a torsional vibration damper that meets NVH criteria, optimize bracket and various mount designs.

Form and Function: Metal 3D Printing of Hybrid Lattice Learn More

Form and Function: Metal 3D Printing of Hybrid Lattice

Altair, Materialise and Renishaw have collaboratively created a prototype of lattice structured spider bracket; a lightweight, functional structure which echoes biological forms found in nature. The synthesis of computational design technology with performance based lattice optimization, automatic surface smoothing and re-design with metal additive layer manufacturing, resulted in the creation of this unconventional, structurally efficient, manufacturable bracket that unleashes designing potential and creativity, freeing creators of common manufacturing constraints across the entire project from conception, product performance to its realization. The printed part shows how true bio-mimicking of 3D patterns reduces stress concentrations and produces a custom tailored design that embeds organic beauty and freedom of design.

APWorks Light Rider: Optimization Process Learn More

APWorks Light Rider: Optimization Process

First 3D-printed Motorcycle by APWorks (Airbus Group) called Lightrider. Altair's software OptiStruct was used for inspiration of the organic structure of the motorcycle.

CalsonicKansei North America Learn More

CalsonicKansei North America

CKNA contacted Altair ProductDesign for training on the Squeak and Rattle Director, which led to more in-depth consultation on the squeak and rattle methodologies, ultimately saving the company time and money by helping them identify detrimental issues early on and by improving vehicle quality.

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Radioss - Introduction Learn More

Radioss - Introduction

Radioss is a leading structural analysis solver for highly non-linear problems under dynamic loadings. It is used across all industries worldwide to improve the crashworthiness, safety, and manufacturability of structural designs.

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MotionSolve - Introduction Learn More

MotionSolve - Introduction

MotionSolve can accurately simulate any mechanical system to predict forces, kinematics and dynamics of motion. The mechanical system may consist of rigid and structurally flexible bodies connected by various kinds of kinematic constraints and flexible connectors. Environmental forces and motion excitations drive the motion of the entire system.

Cal Poly Pomona Uses HyperWorks to Design a Winning Formula SAE Racecar Learn More

Cal Poly Pomona Uses HyperWorks to Design a Winning Formula SAE Racecar

Cal Poly Pomona applies HyperWorks to optimize the design of a new wheel shell and analyze laminates for a SAE Formula student racecar.

PSA Groupe Discusses the Simulation of Squeak and Rattle Noise in its Vehicles Learn More

PSA Groupe Discusses the Simulation of Squeak and Rattle Noise in its Vehicles

In this interview, Sebastien Gourg, CAE Methods, Expertise and Support Engineer from PSA Groupe gives us insight into his experience of working with Altair ProductDesign during the implementation and customization of the Squeak and Rattle Director (SnRD). The SnRD is used within PSA vehicle development programs today to help to quickly identify and eradicate unwanted noise from interiors, while cutting down the need for costly physical testing.

CEVT Discuss Multi-Disciplinary Optimization for Vehicle Development Learn More

CEVT Discuss Multi-Disciplinary Optimization for Vehicle Development

China Euro Vehicle Technology (CEVT) discuss the application of Multi-disciplinary Optimization (MDO) during the development of new automotive vehicle architectures.

Adam Wais of Rolo Bikes Discusses the Working Relationship with Altair Learn More

Adam Wais of Rolo Bikes Discusses the Working Relationship with Altair

During the development of a new carbon fiber bicycle, the design team at Sweden based Rolo Bikes, wanted to develop a frame which exhibited world leading strength and stiffness attributes while keeping weight to an absolute minimum. The team required an efficient process to design the frame and test it in a virtual world against the industry’s safety and performance standards.

An Interview with Ben Farmer of Robot Bike Co. Discussing the Development of their R160 Bike with Altair Learn More

An Interview with Ben Farmer of Robot Bike Co. Discussing the Development of their R160 Bike with Altair

Robot Bike Company (RBC) is a new startup established in the UK by aerospace engineers and mountain biking enthusiasts who identified the potential of combining additive manufacturing technologies with carbon fiber to, in their own words, “create the best bike frames possible”. To deliver a customizable, lightweight, high strength bike, RBC’s frame was intended to be created from carbon fiber, a material very common in the industry. The carbon fiber tubes, as well as the bike’s other components and systems were to be joined by additively manufactured titanium ‘nodes’, manufactured based on the specification of individual riders. Altair ProductDesign’s engineering team was tasked with optimizing these joints, which included the head tube, seat post and chain stay lugs, to ensure they were as lightweight as possible and still able to withstand the forces of downhill mountain bike riding, all while being fit for the AM process.

Digital Development at Hyundai Motor Group Learn More

Digital Development at Hyundai Motor Group

Dr. Byungsik Kang is explaining how upfront engineering with FEA methods made a big impact at Hyundai Motor Group. He also explains the importance of designers using simulation for their own need at the early stage of development. Last but not least he is talking about the power of the solver OptiStruct to find entirely new designs.

Developing a New Safety System for the Rail Industry with Sharma & Associates Learn More

Developing a New Safety System for the Rail Industry with Sharma & Associates

Sharma & Associates (SA), a Chicago-based consulting firm that is focused on providing engineering solutions to the railroad industry, led the effort. Since 1995, SA have delivered safe, effective and efficient solutions to its customers, which include the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), the Association of American Railroads (AAR), railroads and transit agencies, rail car builders and rail car component manufacturers. The objective of the Altair ProductDesign team effort was to develop an ‘Engineer Protection System (EPS)’ that can protect train crew in frontal collisions (a common mode of train collision) from secondary impact injuries.

What’s the Secret to Product Innovation? Learn More

What’s the Secret to Product Innovation?

Find out how we can help increase your innovation intelligence™ in order to grow, expand and succeed.

Mahle Discuss Its Use Of The Automated Reporting Director Learn More

Mahle Discuss Its Use Of The Automated Reporting Director

A close collaboration was forged between MAHLE and Altair ProductDesign to create the automated reporting solution. While Altair ProductDesign developed the code, MAHLE described the current process and reporting requirements to ensure business alignment and an effective result. Previously, users had to create a HyperView session, adjust all the pictures, snap a picture of each desired view, bring the visual assets into PowerPoint, crop and place, go back and create call-outs, and re-examine results to create notes for the report; this is now a push button operation. Using ARD, MAHLE has successfully reduced time spent on non-engineering tasks, enabling CAE analysts to better utilize their time as engineers - yielding more analysis and better design.

Additive Manufacturing of a Satellite Antenna Bracket Learn More

Additive Manufacturing of a Satellite Antenna Bracket

Analysis and design of a 3D printed antenna support for the Sentinel-1b satellite by RUAG Space with Altair Products.

Ping Golf: Using CAE and HPC for Virtual Prototyping Learn More

Ping Golf: Using CAE and HPC for Virtual Prototyping

In this short interview Eric Morales, Sr Research Engineer at PING Golf, explains how combining CAE simulation with the latest HPC technology has greatly reduced product development time.

Student Passion Fueled by Altair Technology in Little America’s Cup C-Class Catamaran Racing Learn More

Student Passion Fueled by Altair Technology in Little America’s Cup C-Class Catamaran Racing

The C-Class Catamaran Team Rafale of Montreal’s École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) is competing in the Little America’s Cup at Lake Geneva, up against some of the world’s best professional sailors, some of whom have a much larger budget.

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Specialized Wins at Le Tour de France with Altair HyperWorks Learn More

Specialized Wins at Le Tour de France with Altair HyperWorks

Learn how Specialized analyzed and improved the aerodynamic performance as well as optimized the weight and structural efficiency of the new S-Works Venge frame.

Ford's Thoughts on Relationship with Altair for Lightweighting Learn More

Ford's Thoughts on Relationship with Altair for Lightweighting

John Viera, Global Director, Sustainability and Vehicle Environmental Matters at Ford Motor Company, gives his thoughts on the relationship with Altair and its importance as the company continues to drive down vehicle weight.

FIAT Customer Story Learn More

FIAT Customer Story

FIAT chose Altair ProductDesign as a partner to perform a pilot project to investigate squeak and rattle. The project focused on studying issues on the FIAT UNO, a vehicle made exclusively for the South American market. Altair ProductDesign suggested that FIAT implement Altair’s ‘Squeak and Rattle Director’ (SNRD), a comprehensive set of services and software automations that rapidly identify and analyze design alternatives to eliminate the root causes of squeak and rattle in assemblies. With customization from the Altair ProductDesign team, the solution provides a semi-automated approach to determine relative component displacements in the time domain that can lead to undesired noise. A dedicated four day workshop facilitated a fast ramp-up of the NVH team’s knowledge of the SNRD and helped Altair to identify FIAT’s specific design process that the solution could be tailored to.

Renishaw presents the first 3D printed metal bike based on solidThinking Inspire results Learn More

Renishaw presents the first 3D printed metal bike based on solidThinking Inspire results

Renishaw's Product Marketing Engineer David Ewing is talking about the use of solidThinking Inspire for the first bike ever built with additive manufacturing and how optimization technology is essential to additive manufacturing.

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Design of a Fuel Cell Race Car for the Annual Shell Eco-Marathon with Altair Products Learn More

Design of a Fuel Cell Race Car for the Annual Shell Eco-Marathon with Altair Products

The student team of the university of applied sciences in Munich participates in the annual Shell Eco-Marathon. The team has to develop a very light and highly efficient race car within less than a year. As there is no time for prototyping, simulation is mandatory. Altair provided the race team with the necessary software. The team secured 3rd place in the 2015 edition of the race!

Ford Research Center - Interview with Dr. Niels Pasligh Learn More

Ford Research Center - Interview with Dr. Niels Pasligh

Niels Pasligh from Ford Research Center Aachen, Germany, is talking about his team's challenges and how they work with Altair products to tackle these.

Establishing Simulation-Driven Design at Scania Learn More

Establishing Simulation-Driven Design at Scania

Mikael Thellner from Scania Trucks talks about improved design processes thanks to solidThinking Inspire. Designers can evaluate their products in earlier stages due to the ability to do analyses themselves.

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S1 AM Bracket - Rupture Test Time Lapse Learn More

S1 AM Bracket - Rupture Test Time Lapse

Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have progressed rapidly in the last years. Supported by the recent developments of design optimisation tools and manufacturing capabilities, components and parts produced using AM are emerging more and more into the focus of space industry.
The aim of this presentation is to show why AM can be seen a promising manufacturing technique for space industry and in particular for satellite application?
Opportunities and challenges that have to be faced to make 3D printed components “flying” on spacecraft are presented and discussed.
The re-engineering and qualification approach of the already existing Antenna Support Bracket, that is part of the Sentinel-1 spacecraft, is discussed as a case study to bring this topic into the more tangible context of an industrial project.

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Development Time Reduction at Stadler Rail Learn More

Development Time Reduction at Stadler Rail

Dr. Alois Starlinger is talking about how Altair products made an impact in shortening development time at Stadler Rail.

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Anadolu Isuzu Increases Truck Safety with HyperWorks Products Learn More

Anadolu Isuzu Increases Truck Safety with HyperWorks Products

Safety Engineer Caner Kara is talking about their usage of Altair products in the design process of trucks and buses at Anadolu Isuzu.

Optimization and Manufacturing of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Components at Manz AG Learn More

Optimization and Manufacturing of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Components at Manz AG

Dr. Martin Steyer talks about OptiStruct as essential part of their Fiber Patch Preforming Process.

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Supporting Blake Leeper’s Road to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games Learn More

Supporting Blake Leeper’s Road to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games

Altair Thinklabs is proudly working together with Eastman Innovation Lab and Blake Leeper, US Paralympics Gold Medalist, on a clean sheet, human-centric design approach to advance running prosthetics technology.

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Honeywell Aerospace - Reducing the Weight of Aircraft Engines Learn More

Honeywell Aerospace - Reducing the Weight of Aircraft Engines

Brian Cottrell, Chief of Structures at Honeywell Aerospace, discusses how Altair ProductDesign applied HyperWorks' optimization technology, OptiStruct, to minimize the weight of new aircraft engines.

Introduction to HyperCrash Learn More

Introduction to HyperCrash

HyperCrash is a robust pre-processing environment specifically designed to automate the creation of high-fidelity models for crash analysis and safety evaluation. Developed in cooperation with the industry's leading manufacturers, HyperCrash increases departmental efficiency and results accuracy through process driven workflows and automated model checking and correction.

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Introduction to AcuSolve Learn More

Introduction to AcuSolve

Altair® AcuSolve® is a leading general-purpose Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solver that is capable of solving the most demanding industrial and scientific applications.

Based on the Finite Element method, AcuSolve’s robust and scalable solver technology empowers users by providing unparalleled accuracy on fully unstructured meshes. Applications ranging from steady RANS simulations to complex, transient, multiphysics simulations are handled with ease and accuracy.

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Luxon Engineering Applies Optimization-driven Design to Motocross Components Learn More

Luxon Engineering Applies Optimization-driven Design to Motocross Components

The motorcycles used in motocross racing demand light weight and high strength components in order to gain a performance advantage over the competition. In this video testimonial Billy Wight, President of Luxon Engineering, presents a case study of applying Altair HyperWorks optimization techniques in the design of a motocross triple clamp assembly and rear suspension linkage.

Arup Uses the Latest Simulation Technologies for Architectural Design Learn More

Arup Uses the Latest Simulation Technologies for Architectural Design

Arup has determined the anticipated conditions throughout the interior of a complex architectural space through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling. In this video Caroline Lama, Façade Engineer at Arup NY, explains how HyperMesh has been used to develop an efficient meshing scheme for this challenging geometry.

Scania Customer Story Learn More

Scania Customer Story

Squeak and rattle phenomena are studied in the automotive industry in an attempt to reduce the cabin noise and as a result, give a better ride quality and comfort to occupants. In the case of Scania’s Cabin Development Department, this kind of simulation was not performed historically. The team had to rely on tolerance calculations as well as the choice of materials to reduce the risk of squeak and rattle. To reduce development time and cut down on iterative changes, a desirable solution was identified that enabled a simulation-driven design process during the early stages of the cabin development cycle.

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Speed and Safety- Interview with Luca Pignacca of Dallara Automobili Learn More

Speed and Safety- Interview with Luca Pignacca of Dallara Automobili

Manufacturing and supply of Racing Cars, Dallara Automobili uses HyperWorks to help design all of their racing cars.

HyperWorks Helps Midea Design and Optimize Millions of AC Units Learn More

HyperWorks Helps Midea Design and Optimize Millions of AC Units

HyperWorks Helps Midea Design and Optimize Millions of AC Units. Using an air conditioner, for example, with HyperMesh, it takes Midea Design one week to mesh the whole model, setup loads and constraints, run the analysis, and extract the result.

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Aerodynamic Development of a Road Cycling Helmet with AcuSolve - LX Sim Learn More

Aerodynamic Development of a Road Cycling Helmet with AcuSolve - LX Sim

LX Sim uses HyperWorks Suite and select Partner Alliance programs from Altair to help build an aerodynamic cycling helmet.

Introduction to HyperWorks Virtual Wind Tunnel Learn More

Introduction to HyperWorks Virtual Wind Tunnel

Altair’s HyperWorks Virtual Wind Tunnel is a new solution designed to provide better wind tunnel simulation technology and user experience. With a highly automated and streamlined workflow process and high quality CFD technology, Altair’s HyperWorks Virtual Wind Tunnel is able to more accurately and quickly predict an automobile’s aerodynamic performance.

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Introduction to HyperMesh Learn More

Introduction to HyperMesh

Altair HyperMesh is a high-performance finite element pre-processor to prepare even the largest models, starting from import of CAD geometry to exporting an analysis run for various disciplines.

Introduction to HyperGraph Learn More

Introduction to HyperGraph

Altair HyperGraph is a powerful data analysis and plotting tool with interfaces to many popular file formats. Its sophisticated math engine is capable of processing even the most complex mathematical expressions. HyperGraph combines these features with high-quality presentation output and customization capabilities to create a complete data analysis system for any organization.

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