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OptiStruct for Structural Optimization Learn More

OptiStruct for Structural Optimization

The purpose of this self paced course is to cover the basics of OptiStruct Optimization. The course contains modules introducing the basic optimization types and giving an over of each. Many exercises are available in the modules that use the See It, Try It methodology. See It allows you to watch a video demonstration of the exercise covered in the section, while Try It gives you a pdf and model to try it in the software on your own.

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Altair HyperWorks Brochure Learn More

Altair HyperWorks Brochure

Altair HyperWorks is the most comprehensive, open architecture CAE simulation platform in the industry, offering the best technologies to design and optimize high performance, weight efficient and innovative products.

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OptiStruct Lessons Learned from a Cambered Structure with Welds made Post-Decambering using Modchg Learn More

OptiStruct Lessons Learned from a Cambered Structure with Welds made Post-Decambering using Modchg

Problem Description
- A pre-cambered trailer is loaded to nearly flat under 1g down by a permanent payload (large steel transformer oil reservoir box).
- As the payload is loaded, the trailer is 'de-cambered." They payload is then welded in place to the trailer.
- Other operational load cases are applied as the subsequent load cases to the de-cambering load. Topology optimization is conducted with responses from both de-cambering load case and subsequent load cases.
- All subsequent analysis must take into account the de-cambering held in place by the welds. The de-camber is a "large displacement" formulation and the loading happens via sliding contact with the payload box.

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Altair SimSolid Technology Overview Learn More

Altair SimSolid Technology Overview

An overview of the theoretical foundation of SimSolid, including mathematical background, computer implementation, and positioning among numerical methods.

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The Altair Motion Solution Learn More

The Altair Motion Solution

This presentation was given at the 2019 ATCx Multibody & System Simulation conference at the Altair Headquarters in Troy, MI.

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Altair Inspire Motion - An Overview Learn More

Altair Inspire Motion - An Overview

This presentation was given at the 2019 ATCx Multibody & System Simulation conference at the Altair Headquarters in Troy, MI.

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Vehicle Modeling in MotionView and MotionSolve Learn More

Vehicle Modeling in MotionView and MotionSolve

This presentation was given at the 2019 ATCx Multibody & System Simulation conference at the Altair Headquarters in Troy, MI.

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System Optimization with Altair MotionSolve Learn More

System Optimization with Altair MotionSolve

This presentation was given at the 2019 ATCx Multibody & System Simulation conference at the Altair Headquarters in Troy, MI.

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Magnet Weight Minimization of PMM over Multiple Operating Points Learn More

Magnet Weight Minimization of PMM over Multiple Operating Points

Magnet Weight Minimization of Electric Traction Interior Permanent Magnet Motor Over Multiple Operating Points

This paper describes the process of using Altair tools such as Flux for synchronous permanent magnet motor EM FEA analysis and HyperStudy to minimize the weight of the NdFeB magnets of a typical IPM motor for electric traction application such as the IPM motor of the Toyota Prius 2010.

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Magneto-Vibro-Acoustic Efficient Design of PWM-Fed Induction Machines Learn More

Magneto-Vibro-Acoustic Efficient Design of PWM-Fed Induction Machines

Induction motors are widely used in the automotive industry. In order to increase the passenger’s comfort, motor designers try to develop new solutions to reduce the noise at its origin, on the electromagnetic side. Damper winding can be a solution to improve emitted vibration and noise. In this presentation, LSEE shows interesting modelling method to evaluate the impact of damper windings on the vibro-acoustic behavior of the motor considering PWM, and compares it with measurements.

* Please note this technology is patented / WO 2016207166 A1*
An LSEE & Altair presentation at SIA-CTTM Automotive NVH Comfort 2018

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Safran Seats Learn More

Safran Seats

Zodiac Seats (now Safran Seats) designs, certifies and assembles innovative, customizable and high-added-value products. For optimizing seat ergonomics to reduce passenger discomfort, Zodiac Seats France (ZSFR) employ Altair HyperWorks to develop biomechanical models which help with optimization of the seat form and structure.

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Serapid Learn More

Serapid

Serapid, the developer and manufacturer of the original Rigid Chain, designs and manufactures telescopic mechanical actuators for the horizontal and vertical movement of heavy loads. See how they use Altair SimSolid™ to aid in gravity loads of complete structure simulation.

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Roth McFarlane Hand and Upper Limb Centre Learn More

Roth McFarlane Hand and Upper Limb Centre

See how McFarlane Hand and Upper Limb Centre in London, Ontario is uses Altair SimSolid™ to evaluate the biomechanics of bone stresses.

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Simulation-Driven Design: Solving the Geometry Problem Learn More

Simulation-Driven Design: Solving the Geometry Problem

One of the challenges of simulation is that geometry of CAD and traditional FEA are different, necessitating time consuming simplification work to define the mesh and resulting in losses in accuracy.

Altair SimSolid takes a different approach, analyzing fully featured CAD assemblies directly with no absolutely no mesh.

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Using Multiphysics Optimization to Design High Performance Rotating Machines Learn More

Using Multiphysics Optimization to Design High Performance Rotating Machines

Light-weight, low cost, compact, high efficiency are some of the many objectives and constraints that have to be considered when designing a rotating machine.

To meet these various challenges it is necessary to take into account several physical aspects:

- electromagnetic
- structural
- thermal

This presentation shows how Altair HyperStudy can involve several Altair solvers to consider different requirements into a single optimization and will be illustrated through various examples.

Considering Temperature Constraints in the Design of Electric Machines Learn More

Considering Temperature Constraints in the Design of Electric Machines

Because of always more compact and high efficiency systems, temperature is a critical constraint in electric machine design.

Depending on the design stage, different levels of modeling can be proposed:

- 1D for fast pre-design, to
- full 3D CFD models for the validation stage.

This presentation shows, through a complete example how the Altair platform for innovation helps machine designers to manage temperature distribution and evolution.

Imperial Auto has Successfully Validated the Contact Pressure for O-Ring by Contact Analysis using Altair OptiStruct™ Solution Learn More

Imperial Auto has Successfully Validated the Contact Pressure for O-Ring by Contact Analysis using Altair OptiStruct™ Solution

Established in the year 1969, Imperial Auto is one of the biggest integrated manufacturers of ‘Fluid Transmission Products (FTPs) in the world. The company has eight dedicated manufacturing and assembly plants in India. The grand vision of the company’s top management can be easily gauged from the strategic and technical alliances that Imperial has formed with major international players in their industry.

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INTECH DMLS Achieves 27% Weight Reduction in 3D Printed Satellite Component using Altair Inspire™ and OptiStruct™ Learn More

INTECH DMLS Achieves 27% Weight Reduction in 3D Printed Satellite Component using Altair Inspire™ and OptiStruct™

INTECH DMLS is playing the visionary role in the field of metal-based DMLS 3D printing in India since its inception in 2012. The company with this rich expertise in metallurgy and machining, established themselves rapidly as the leader of the Metal Additive Manufacturing industry in India. Sinteneering Innovations®, the company’s tagline signifies its commitment to innovation in manufacturing and marks the beginning of a new era in metal manufacturing.

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Altair Inspire Form Helps Pragati Engineering Address Sheet Metal Formability and Inconsistent Thinning Issues While Reducing Physical Try-out Time by 50% Learn More

Altair Inspire Form Helps Pragati Engineering Address Sheet Metal Formability and Inconsistent Thinning Issues While Reducing Physical Try-out Time by 50%

Pragati Engineering, established in 2004, is one of the leading press tool design and manufacturing companies in India. The company has a national reach and successfully carries out projects riding on the robust shoulders of qualified and dynamic engineers from their Design department and Tool Room division. The company’s competency lies in manufacture of Press Tools Fixtures and Panel Checkers for various critical sheet-metal components and assemblies. With new technologies, facilities, and experience in Press Tooling, the company is confident of seamlessly catering to any requirement in the sheet-metal forming segment.

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Pranav Vikas Achieves 17% Material Savings with Light Weight and Optimised Product Designs using Altair HyperWorks™ Solutions Learn More

Pranav Vikas Achieves 17% Material Savings with Light Weight and Optimised Product Designs using Altair HyperWorks™ Solutions

With over 2 decades of experience in manufacturing Aluminum Heat-exchangers such as Condensers, Evaporators, Heaters, Radiators, Oil Coolers, IHX and Roof AC units, Pranav Vikas (India) Private Limited (PVL) today is one of the largest and most diversified Heat-exchanger manufacturers in India. The company currently is the only fully integrated Condenser manufacturer in India with their own state-of-the-art Micro-tube facility at Ranjangaon, Pune. PVL serves leading global and Indian Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in the Passenger, Commercial, and Off-road vehicle segments.

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Sharda Motors – Usage of Altair CAE Solution for Durability Analysis Learn More

Sharda Motors – Usage of Altair CAE Solution for Durability Analysis

Sharda Motor Industries Limited (SMIL) is the market leader in the country in the manufacturing of exhaust systems, catalytic converters, independent suspension systems, seat frames, seat covers (two and four wheelers), soft top canopies, and stamped part for white goods products. Their state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities help them to continuously focus on new products, innovation, technology upgradation, and research & development. The facility seamlessly caters to various emission norms ranging from BS4, BS6, and Tier 4.

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Lushan Primary School Learn More

Lushan Primary School

Tucked away in a remote location in the mountains, designed by ZHA, the Lushan primary school, when complete, will be an educational institute located 160 kilometers North-West of Nanchang, the capital of China’s Jiangxi province.

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Fast Assessment and Optimization of the Energy Efficiency of Electric Machines with Altair Flux Learn More

Fast Assessment and Optimization of the Energy Efficiency of Electric Machines with Altair Flux

In the early stage of the design of an electric machine, it is key to assess its potential in terms of global energy efficiency when submitted to specific duty cycles.

This presentation will show how:

- FluxMotor is able to extract efficiency maps in a very fast way.
- FluxMotor can be coupled to Altair HyperStudy for design exploration and optimization studies, considering the efficiency over duty cycles as an objective function to be maximized.

How Can 3D-Printed Plastic Waveguides Enable V-Band Applications? Learn More

How Can 3D-Printed Plastic Waveguides Enable V-Band Applications?

Using Altair Feko, ALCIOM examined two prototypes manufactured using 3D-printing technology to demonstrate the performance of 3D-printed plastic waveguide components at V-band frequencies.

Article originally appeared in Microwaves&RF (www.mwrf.com) on January 4, 2019

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Risks of Using CBAR Elements Learn More

Risks of Using CBAR Elements

In FE analysis, the aerospace industry continues to make common use of 1D bending elements such as CBAR and
CBEAM elements. In particular, aerospace FE analysts use CBAR elements extensively in global loads models. However, the CBAR element has deficiencies compared to its more modern replacement, the CBEAM element. Some FEA
software providers recommend CBEAM over CBAR for many important use cases.

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ICAT Meets Automotive Safety and Regulatory Requirements with Altair Simulation Software Learn More

ICAT Meets Automotive Safety and Regulatory Requirements with Altair Simulation Software

ICAT is one of the leading centres for testing, R&D, design, development and validation in support of a Government of India funded initiative to develop facilities for automotive testing & development. To meet the challenges of the automotive industry, they need to employ optimization to decrease vehicle weight while maintaining proper strength. For a major challenge for the rollover testing for bus industry, they used Altair Radioss for roll over simulation and Altair OptiStruct for optimization leading to shortened development time for their customers by over 50%.

Providing Designers Easy Access to Powerful Simulation Tools Learn More

Providing Designers Easy Access to Powerful Simulation Tools

Brompton Bicycle discuss the benefits they have seen from moving away from simulation in their CAD system to a more powerful and flexible system from Altair.

Andron Handling Learn More

Andron Handling

Andron Handling needed to assess the strength of the welded fabrication and vertical clamping arms for both lifting and clamping loads. In previous analysis of this type in Altair SimSolid™, they would have removed the wheels from the model and applied reaction forces at the bottom of each of the clamp arms. In this case, Andron used a different approach that would not have been possible with previous FEA toolsets.

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F.tech R&D North America Learn More

F.tech R&D North America

F.tech is a Tier-1 automotive systems supplier, headquartered in Japan. To help the CAE team at F.tech R&D North America overcome tedious challenges related to model build and geometry preparation for weld creation, Altair developed a customized solution. Developed using Altair’s Model Mesher Director (MMD) PSO (Packaged Solution Offering), the F.tech -Pre-processing Automation Solution (F.tech-PAS) is a streamlined toolset which aids F.tech engineers in CAE meshing and assembly from CAD to solver deck.

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Altair SimSolid Datasheet Learn More

Altair SimSolid Datasheet

Altair SimSolid is a structural analysis software developed specifically for rapidly evolving design processes. It eliminates geometry simplification and meshing, the two most time-consuming and expertise-extensive tasks done in traditional FEA, enabling the analysis of fully-featured CAD assemblies in minutes without meshing.

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SmartCore Datasheet Learn More

SmartCore Datasheet

Altair SmartCore open-architecture solution enabling advanced edge-to-cloud IoT applications and augmented data analytics powered by machine learning to drive the innovation.

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Project Invincible - Advanced Chest Protection Learn More

Project Invincible - Advanced Chest Protection

Presentation by James Helliwell, Design Engineer at McLaren Applied Technologies.

In this presentation McLaren Applied Technologies, the advanced technology, innovation, and design company will discuss the background, design process and results of a project to develop a highly bespoke protective garment. The Invincible shield is in response to a challenge from a single client to design a device to help protect vital organs after surgery. The fully wearable composite shield does the job of the rib cage – protecting vital organs including the heart and the lungs, with the garment providing further protection from unexpected low energy impact. Altair HyperWorks products and solvers were used extensively during the project for pre-processing, solving and post-processing of linear static, dynamic impact, topology and topography optimisation analyses.

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Fallbrook Technologies Learn More

Fallbrook Technologies

Traction-based, patented NuVinci® transmission is a continuously variable planetary (CVP) technology enabling performance and efficiency improvements for machines that use an engine, pump, motor, or geared transmission systems. Fallbrook Technologies has been working on improving oil flow inside the NuVinci products as it affects the transmission’s efficiency, durability, power, capacity, and cost. Altair worked with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a secure cloud services platform, to provide an integrated solution to Fallbrook including advanced GPU hardware, high-performance computing (HPC) and the nanoFluidX software through industry-leading workload management and job scheduler Altair PBS Professional™.

Processing CAE Data via Advanced Mathematical Scripting Learn More

Processing CAE Data via Advanced Mathematical Scripting

High level, Matrix-based Numerical computing language & unified programming environment for all types of math from solving matrix analysis, differential equations signal analysis and control systems. It is an integrated HyperWorks post processing tool.

A Motivating, Inspirational Forum for Learning: Thoughts from Attendees at the 2018 Global ATC Learn More

A Motivating, Inspirational Forum for Learning: Thoughts from Attendees at the 2018 Global ATC

Thoughts from attendees express the energy and passion emanating through the exchange of knowledge, information, ideas and stories by technology leaders and industry executives at the 2018 Global Altair Technology Conference.

Highly Optimized Passive Lubrication System for an EV Transmission Learn More

Highly Optimized Passive Lubrication System for an EV Transmission

Presentation by Dr. Milos Stanic, nanoFluidX Product Manager at Altair.

Optimising the rotational losses of an EV transmission is essential to improve range. Whilst bearing and gear losses are well understood, the interaction between rotating components and transmission fluid rarely exploited other than reducing lubricant viscosity. Effective methods for modelling drag and fluid transfer around a transmission have not robustly existed previously.

Converting electrical power into mechanical power to drive a fluid pump is wasteful. However, in tightly packaged EV transmissions where thermal cooling is limited it is essential to manage the lubricant. A novel method for passively moving fluid around an EV transmission with low losses has been developed. The system uses existing components in the gearbox to move fluid in a controlled manner. The cost savings of using this technology can be used directly elsewhere to improve vehicle range.

In order to iterate through potential design solutions a suitable computer based modelling approach had to be developed. A new smoothed particle hydrodynamics approach was created to predict the fluid movement and the drag level on the remaining components. A correlation of this approach was carried out with real world testing to prove its validity.

Automotive NVH Development - Past, Present, and Future Technology Challenges Learn More

Automotive NVH Development - Past, Present, and Future Technology Challenges

Dr. Per-Olof Sturesson, Senior Director Driving Dynamics and Noise & Vibration Centre at Volvo Cars, keynote presentation at the 2018 Global ATC in Paris, France.

Over the last decades, the utilization of CAE has increased substantially in the vehicle NVH refinement process. Today CAE is a fully integrated in the NVH development due to significant innovations in computer algorithms, application software and hardware systems. The numerous challenges with respect to NVH driven by the introduction of new technologies can be mitigated by means of extensive utilization of CAE delivering products faster to the market. The presentation will cover a retrospective, current status and an outlook.

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The Digitalization Trends and Structural Design in Maritime Industry Learn More

The Digitalization Trends and Structural Design in Maritime Industry

Dr. Toshiro Arima, Corporate Officer, Director of Rule Development and ICT Division at ClassNK, keynote presentation at the 2018 Global ATC in Paris, France.

In this presentation, the current state of digitalization of maritime industry, structural rules and evaluation software used for hull structural design will be introduced. In addition, the efforts being made by ClassNK, one of the world's largest classification societies, to use digitalization to ensure ship safety will be also introduced.

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Zaha Hadid Presents Innovation in AEC Learn More

Zaha Hadid Presents Innovation in AEC

Eddie Can, Senior Associate at Zaha Hadid Architects, keynote presentation at the 2018 Global ATC in Paris, France.

During his speech Mr. Can will focus on the relationship between highly complex design documents and construction technique that minimize cost while working on a custom and double curved surface for one of the largest and most iconic construction sites of the globe.

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Experimentation Matters: Driving Innovation Through Simulation Learn More

Experimentation Matters: Driving Innovation Through Simulation

Prof. Stefan Thomke, William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, keynote presentation at the 2018 Global ATC in Paris, France.

Why do companies constantly come out with exciting innovations while others have great difficulty? Professor Thomke shows that an organization's ability to innovate depends on constantly experimenting with new products, processes, customer experiences and business models. During his keynote, Prof. Thomke explains why business experimentation is so critical to the management of innovation, underscores the huge potential of simulation (and new digital platforms), and outlines what managers must do to integrate them successfully. Drawing on two decades of research in multiple industries, he provides striking illustrations of how companies execute innovation more effectively.

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Identify & Eliminate Squeak & Rattle Phenomena with Access to Ziegler's PEM Database Learn More

Identify & Eliminate Squeak & Rattle Phenomena with Access to Ziegler's PEM Database

Reducing the presence of interior Squeak and Rattle (S&R) noises has become an
on-going trend within the Automotive and Aerospace communities. Read more to see how Ziegler's PEM database helps to identify eliminate this phenomena.

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Join the Simulation Revolution: Introduction to Altair SimSolid Learn More

Join the Simulation Revolution: Introduction to Altair SimSolid

SimSolid is a game-changing simulation technology for designers and design engineers. SimSolid accelerates product exploration with highly accurate engineering simulation:

-Analyze complex assemblies in seconds to minutes
-Simulate more, prototype less
-Predict product performance for better design decision making

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Overview of MDO & Methodologies for Meeting the Challenges for Efficient MDO Execution Learn More

Overview of MDO & Methodologies for Meeting the Challenges for Efficient MDO Execution

Presentation by Dr. Royston Jones, Executive VP, European Operations & Global CTO at Altair.

As products increase in complexity, design becomes more multi-disciplinary and the requirement to efficiently deploy Multi-Disciplinary Optimization (MDO) becomes a significant design differentiator. Increasingly, industry is successfully performing MDO studies to achieve optimized balanced design allowing trade-offs between mass, performance and even cost.

In order to impact the product development process, MDO results must deliver to project timescales and in order to achieve this, a number of challenges need to be overcome. Typical challenges consist of efficiently performing MDO pre- and post-processing and solution activities. To meet these challenges, Altair has utilized its expertise in model management, large dataflow, job submittal, optimization and visualization, leveraging HyperWorks technologies to create a vertically integrated end-to-end process software tool.

Inspire Cast - Getting Started Learn More

Inspire Cast - Getting Started

A course to help users get started using Inspire Cast including an interface tour and workflow training/videos.

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Meet Altair's New Tool for Electronics Cooling Learn More

Meet Altair's New Tool for Electronics Cooling

In this webinar, discover all the new features in the first release of ElectroFlo under the HyperWorks platform.

Altair ElectroFlo is designed exclusively for challenging electronics cooling and design applications. It is a thermal package capable of solving problems involving conduction, natural, and forced convection, radiation and conjugate heat transfer, yet it is easy enough to use for a non-CFD expert.

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Full IoT Stack Learn More

Full IoT Stack

Presentation by Alvaro Everlet, VP Business Development at Altair.

Learn how Altair's IoT stack and architecture contributes to your value chain, IoT enables Smart Things and Processes in support of Simulation Driven Innovation. See real use cases examples and hands on demonstration.

Technology as Key Enabler for Product Innovation Learn More

Technology as Key Enabler for Product Innovation

Sam Mahalingam, CTO at Altair, keynote presentation at the 2018 Global ATC in Paris, France.

As a technologist I have been following the technology trends and have identified three trends that can immensely change the product innovation landscape and they are: High Performance Cloud Computing, IOT / Smart Connected Product and Big Data / Machine Learning. Altair strongly believes we have all the necessary technologies required for the Product engineering digital transform and the value add being: a) Cloud HPC increasing the pace of product innovation b) IoT & Analytics improves the product performance and c) Data management increases the product engineering efficiency.

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The World is Built on Engineering Learn More

The World is Built on Engineering

Dr. Uwe Schramm and James Dagg, CTOs at Altair, keynote presentation at the 2018 Global ATC in Paris, France.

This presentation will illustrate the power of Altair’s simulation technology through several practical examples applied to some of the most common product development challenges in automotive, aerospace, and other industries.

Starting with simulation in the early phases of concept design, designers can take advantage of CFD simulation to explore and validate how different designs impact the aerodynamic performance of a vehicle. Viewers will be shown how complex, detailed nonlinear airframe simulations can be modeled and performed quickly and accurately. The presenters will also explain how multiphysics problems like e-powertrain development can be solved with a model-based development approach, which considers electrical and electro-magnetic simulation of systems and sub-systems.

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Seamless integration of 0D-1D and 3D worlds Learn More

Seamless integration of 0D-1D and 3D worlds

This webinar will introduce you to Altair Activate for control system design and the ease of solving real world problems with co-simulation between MotionSolve (multibody simulation suite) and Activate.

Increasing Fidelity of Vehicle Dynamics Models Learn More

Increasing Fidelity of Vehicle Dynamics Models

Activate models of a series-parallel hybrid electric vehicle powertrain coupled with CarSim via the Functional Mock-up Interface.

Increasing Fidelity of Electric Engine Models Learn More

Increasing Fidelity of Electric Engine Models

Comparison of 3 different engine models for an HEV vehicle: Park equations, full 3D Flux model, table method; later one generated by Flux2D.

PMSM Simple Speed Control Learn More

PMSM Simple Speed Control

Activate model of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) with vector control for speed or torque.

Fuel Economy Simulations Learn More

Fuel Economy Simulations

Activate model of a series-parallel hybrid electric vehicle powertrain to evaluate fuel economy and system performance.

Efficient Multidisciplinary Modeling of a Washing Machine Motor Duty Cycle Learn More

Efficient Multidisciplinary Modeling of a Washing Machine Motor Duty Cycle

Presentation by Dr. Martin Ortega, Principal Design Engineer at Mabe.

This work presents a systematic process of the electromagnetic and thermal analysis of a washing machine single-phase capacitor-run induction motor during a full wash cycle. By utilizing an electromagnetic solver and a one-dimensional systems modeler, the designer is able to evaluate the thermal heat rise and power losses of the motor faster, at a limited cost and in a limited time.

Defining Positioning System for Heavy Lift Barge with AcuSolve Learn More

Defining Positioning System for Heavy Lift Barge with AcuSolve

Presentation by Pawel Sadowski, Technical Support Manager at DES ART.

Even during building roads your approach may be different from the standard one. The nature often forces engineers to use their creativity and go beyond typical projects. This leads to some unique, futuristic structures or some additional projects that have to be done and at the end are invisible. Our project of heavy lift barge contains in the second group. One part of this project was to proof that positioning system is sufficient to keep right position at the sea even during unfavorable weather conditions. For this purpose we perform numerous CFD analyses using AcuSolve. Computational cases differed in angle of flow, speed of flow and configuration of the barge. As a result of these all analyses defined working area of positioning system.

Thermal and Impact Analysis of a Nuclear Flask Design Learn More

Thermal and Impact Analysis of a Nuclear Flask Design

Thomas Goulding, Senior Mechanical Engineer at Assystems presents at the UK ATC 2019. Nuclear transport flasks are used to store and transport nuclear waste material. When transported on public roads the flask must fulfil International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) test requirements, which are designed to ensure that release of radionuclides is not credible. Whilst on-site, the flask requirements are driven by the Safety Justification which can be quite different to those defined by the IAEA.

A function-led design process was undertaken to fulfil these requirements for an IAEA Type B(M) package. This required a range of drop impact simulations using RADIOSS.

Altair HyperWorks was used as a common enabling tool for the analyses. The tools within HyperWorks were used to perform multi-disciplinary optimisation of the flask, without the need to revisit the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) model. Workable solutions, proven by simulation, were then incorporated into the CAD design. This function-led process was seen to be more efficient than the traditional trial-and-error approach.

HyperMesh was used for mesh creation due to excellent element control and its capability to support a variety of solvers.

The use of HyperCrash (pre-processor), RADIOSS (solver) and HyperView (post-processor) enabled non-linear impact analyses to be performed.

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Integration of Optimization into Design with Altair's MDO Offering Learn More

Integration of Optimization into Design with Altair's MDO Offering

CAE has since long been established as the tool for validating and certifying mechanical properties during product development. Simulation-driven design takes simulation and optimization into the creative design process. Primary goal of simulation-driven design is to provide a continuous stream of decision data to support concept design and later product development stages.

Presentations recorded at the Global ATC in Paris, France on October 16, 2018.

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Lead Time Reduction in Modeling and Visualization Learn More

Lead Time Reduction in Modeling and Visualization

Seminar held during 2018 Global ATC in Paris, France on October 16, 2018.

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Truck Ride Comfort Analysis by Using Compose and MotionSolve Learn More

Truck Ride Comfort Analysis by Using Compose and MotionSolve

Ride comfort analysis modeling and ride comfort evaluation done in Altair Compose and Altair MotionSolve.

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National Composites Centre Learn More

National Composites Centre

The National Composites Centre (NCC), in collaboration with the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) and University of Warwick (WMG) worked on a collaborative project to develop a Cross-Catapult technology demonstrator; the Mono-Ski or Sit-ski, a device for sports that uses adaptive equipment on mountain slopes, designed for individuals with lower extremity limitations. Composites were used extensively in the new Sit-ski design with the Altair HyperWorks™ suite being utilized throughout the development process.

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Fast and Accurate Design of Electromagnetic Devices with Flux and FluxMotor Learn More

Fast and Accurate Design of Electromagnetic Devices with Flux and FluxMotor

Altair Flux is a leading finite element simulation software for electromagnetic modeling. Used for more than 35 years in industry worldwide, and based on the most advanced numerical techniques, Flux has become a reference for the high accuracy it delivers.

Altair also recently introduced Altair FluxMotor, a new tool for the pre-design of electric machines. In a very intuitive interface, it allows defining a machine from templates, creating its winding, and characterizing its performance in a few clicks.

In this webinar, discover all the new features in the latest versions of Flux and FluxMotor.

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Optimization of Spacecraft Metallic Primary Structure with OptiStruct Learn More

Optimization of Spacecraft Metallic Primary Structure with OptiStruct

Spacecraft primary structure is designed to react all the major loads imparted on a spacecraft. Inadequately designed or tested primary structure can result in structure failure during launch and endanger mission success. To maximize the useful payload to orbit, primary structures are typically designed to minimize mass while maximizing strength and stiffness characteristics. Identifying an optimal balance of these three design characteristics can be challenging due to the extensive number of load cases applicable to the primary structure. For this study, multiple finite element models (FEM) are optimized to define a metallic panel capable of reacting launch loads and supporting a large secondary payload mounted to the panel. To react the launch loads, the panel strength margins are evaluated and the secondary payload’s 1st bending mode is maximized to reduce dynamic coupling with the launch vehicle dynamic environment. For the optimization, the mass is constrained to not exceed an available mass budget. The primary structure panel is connected to a generic spacecraft bus representative of a typical Northrop Grumman satellite.

Presentation recorded in Troy, MI during ATCx OptiStruct 2018 on September 27, 2018.

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Single Model Multi-Attribute Analysis & Optimization Learn More

Single Model Multi-Attribute Analysis & Optimization

On September 27th, OptiStruct users presented the latest capabilities and advancements in simulation-driven design methods for noise and vibration, durability and fatigue solutions. In addition, Altair experts showcased the unique OptiStruct development workflow which allows a baseline model to be analyzed and optimized for various criteria within one solver, in one format, with just one license.

Presentation recorded in Troy, MI during ATCx OptiStruct 2018 on September 27th, 2018.

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Durability Workshop Learn More

Durability Workshop

On September 27th, OptiStruct users presented the latest capabilities and advancements in simulation-driven design methods for noise and vibration, durability and fatigue solutions. In addition, Altair experts showcased the unique OptiStruct development workflow which allows a baseline model to be analyzed and optimized for various criteria within one solver, in one format, with just one license.

Presentation recorded in Troy, MI during ATCx OptiStruct 2018 on September 27th, 2018.

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Hussmann India Achieves Greater Simulation Accuracy with Altair AcuSolve™ Learn More

Hussmann India Achieves Greater Simulation Accuracy with Altair AcuSolve™

Hussmann provides tailored food safety solutions designed to improve food quality and integrity. As the manufacturer of refrigerated display cases and systems, they have to maintain the highest performance and quality standards of the products they develop. Using Altair solutions helped them reduce their product development time by 20 to 30% with the CFD Thermal solutions successfully addressing even the most complex problems in challenging areas that were faced in product design analysis and CFD.

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Altair Multiscale Designer Webinar: Taking Material Modeling to the Next Level Learn More

Altair Multiscale Designer Webinar: Taking Material Modeling to the Next Level

Multiscale modeling of composite materials has become a viable solution to reduce the amount of physical testing needed for accurately material characterization and to better assess the nonlinear material behavior and failure mechanisms in structural analysis.

Whether you are working with high-performance continuous fiber-reinforced composites, injection molded short fiber, or even reinforced concrete, Altair Multiscale Designer provides accurate, efficient solutions for the development of multiscale material models and simulation parts manufactured from heterogeneous materials.

This webinar gives an overview of Altair Multiscale Designer capabilities including new features now available in the latest release.

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Altair ElectroFlo Datasheet Learn More

Altair ElectroFlo Datasheet

Altair ElectroFlo is a CFD-based thermal package to simulate challenging electronics cooling and other EDA thermal
management applications. Easy to use even for non-CFD experts, it is capable of solving complex problems involving conduction, natural and forced convection, radiation and conjugate heat transfer.

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Industry 4.0 – How Digitalization Makes Weight & Balance Process More Agile and Connected Learn More

Industry 4.0 – How Digitalization Makes Weight & Balance Process More Agile and Connected

Kai Thräne, Manager Weight & Balance Research & Development at Airbus Helicopter presents at the 2017 European ATC.

In the context of Industry 4.0, most enterprise processes must become more digitized. A key element will be the evolution of the traditional product development toward a connected and highly efficient ecosystem, where humans, machines and resources communicate with each other and work collaboratively.

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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 ESAComp: A Powerful Toolbox for Classical Composite Analysis Learn More

Altair ESAComp: A Powerful Toolbox for Classical Composite Analysis

Find out how Altair ESAComp enhances the capabilities of the Altair HyperWorks platform by providing classical analyses of structures made of layered composites. Altair ESAComp is used from preliminary and detailed design phases to advanced analyses for the final design verification. Thanks to its ability to interface with widely-used finite element software packages, Altair ESAComp fits seamlessly into design processes.

This webinar gives an overview of Altair ESAComp capabilities including new features like delamination analysis.

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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.

Altair Inspire Datasheet Learn More

Altair Inspire Datasheet

Altair Inspire enables design engineers, product designers, and architects to create and investigate structurally efficient concepts quickly and easily. Inspire uses the industry leading Altair OptiStruct™ technology to generate and analyze design concepts. The software is easy to learn and works with existing CAD tools to help design
structural parts right the first time, reducing costs, development time, material consumption, and product weight.

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Mabe Learn More

Mabe

Mabe is a Mexico-based international appliance company designing, producing and distributing a wide spectrum of home appliances such as washing machines, dryers, cooking ranges, refrigerators, air-conditioners, microwaves, etc. Altair technology has enabled Mabe to increase the capacity of their washing machines by 35%, and the spin speed by 24% while reducing the cost per cubic foot by 10%.

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What are the Concept Challenges? Learn More

What are the Concept Challenges?

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

Introducing the Next Generation Manufacturing Simulation Solutions on Altair Inspire™ Platform Learn More

Introducing the Next Generation Manufacturing Simulation Solutions on Altair Inspire™ Platform

Altair manufacturing simulation tools have received an extensive amount of development efforts to expand their simulation capabilities.

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Solving Your Most Difficult Modeling Problems with Altair SimLab™ Learn More

Solving Your Most Difficult Modeling Problems with Altair SimLab™

Altair SimLab is a process-oriented modeling software with the features and flexibility to address the complex needs of simulation teams. This webinar covers how Altair SimLab 2018's streamlined workflows and feature capabilities can address common pre-processing challenges in highly complex models, enabling your team to focus on analyzing results rather than cleaning up mesh.

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Optimisation of a Collapsible Economic Container “COLLAPSECON" Learn More

Optimisation of a Collapsible Economic Container “COLLAPSECON"

At the forefront of innovation at CEC Systems is the world’s first semi-automated Collapsible-Economic-Container. Achieving a 4:1 ratio, COLLAPSECON® enables 4 empty containers to be collapsed and combined to form a single container, improving operational efficiency, enhancing return on investment and reducing the impact on the environment. For the design for mass production and optimal operational use, the Altair HyperWorks Suite was leveraged to find solutions for weight reduction without increasing manufacturing costs. The newly engineered container is potentially 30% lighter than the original design, whilst reducing material requirements, increasing manufacturing efficiency, and reducing cost.

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Museum of the 20th Century Learn More

Museum of the 20th Century

For a competition launched for the Museum of the 20th Century, Zaha Hadid Architects re-invented a similarly radical approach by applying new advances in technology to generate structural and architectural expression. With Altair’s assistance, they created a plug-in for their design tool, enabling topology optimization. Altair HyperMesh was used for finite element preprocessing mesh generation, with Altair HyperView providing post-processing and visualization solutions. Structural analysis solver Altair OptiStruct provided advanced analysis and optimization algorithms.

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Altair Inspire Extrude Datasheet Learn More

Altair Inspire Extrude Datasheet

Altair Inspire Extrude is a simulation environment designed to help extrusion companies meet the ever increasing demands to produce complex profiles with tight tolerances, quality surface finishes, and high strength properties at reduced cost. Inspire Extrude is a virtual press where users can visualize material flow and temperature inside a die during extrusion and make necessary changes to ensure balanced flow, while identifying and eliminating product defects.

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Designing Flexible Composite Solutions in HyperWorks Learn More

Designing Flexible Composite Solutions in HyperWorks

This 16-minute long presentation from Simpact provides insight into how the company is utilising simulation technologies and processes to create highly innovative, flexible composite structures that are both lightweight and high performance.

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Accelerate Your Product to Market with Simulated Testing Learn More

Accelerate Your Product to Market with Simulated Testing

This webinar will address many aspects of the Altair Startup Program including Altair's services, IoT and connected products, the Altair solution portfolio, and customer success stories.

This webinar was recorded on August 2nd, 2018.

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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.

Ultra-Fast High-Fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics on GPUs for Automotive Aerodynamics Learn More

Ultra-Fast High-Fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics on GPUs for Automotive Aerodynamics

In this white paper, we present the innovative commercial GPU-based Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solver Altair ultraFluidX. This work features simulations of the DrivAer model, a generic, publicly available vehicle geometry that was developed by the Chair of Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics at the Technical University of Munich and which is widely used for testing and validation purposes.

The DrivAer model features rear end, underbody designs, and underhood flow. This model was then used to perform both wind tunnel tests and numerical simulations of the 40% scale open cooling geometry using perforated aluminum sheets with different opening ratios to mimic different radiator properties. Within, we will compare some of the results from these wind tunnel tests with numerical results obtained with Altair ultraFluidX.

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Altair Inspire Cast Datasheet Learn More

Altair Inspire Cast Datasheet

Altair Inspire Cast was developed with its end users in mind. We strive to make casting simulation as easy as possible by using ‘foundryman’s language’ in our software. Every word in the interface comes from the casting process world. Not only is the software incredibly easy to use, it is also highly accurate and powerful. Get started with Inspire Cast today to further investigate and explore your casting process with just a few clicks.

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Altair Inspire Form Datasheet Learn More

Altair Inspire Form Datasheet

Altair Inspire Form enables users to better design products while reducing lead time by enabling early consideration of formability, process parameters, material utilization, and cost.

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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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SimLab for CFD and Multiphysics Webinar Learn More

SimLab for CFD and Multiphysics Webinar

This webinar shows Altair's streamlined thermal fluid-structure interaction workflow for powertrain components.

Leveraging Altair's CFD and structural analysis solvers, SimLab now offers a streamlined workflow that enables pre-, solver, and post-processing for thermal FSI within a single interface. The webinar will cover extraction of fluid surfaces to build CFD domains from solid bodies, defining loads and constraints, solver setting for conjugate heat transfer (CHT) and computing deflections and thermal stresses and post-processing structural and thermal-flow results.

Design Lightweight and Efficient Stamping Dies with Topology Optimization Learn More

Design Lightweight and Efficient Stamping Dies with Topology Optimization

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.

Fast contact method for speeding up solving finite element problems involving non-linear contact behavior Learn More

Fast contact method for speeding up solving finite element problems involving non-linear contact behavior

For large aerospace assemblies in finite element (FE) analysis problems, contact interaction between the surrounding bodies has to be established to simulate the load transferred between the components, like aircraft engine carrying bracket assemblies, spigots assemblies etc., and understand the effects of interaction between respective parts. In some cases, depending upon geometry of the assembly, the region of study may not be contact area but the stresses acting within the parts themselves. If there is no geometric or material non-linearity in such problems, a new contact formulation method known as Fast Contact can be used in these contact regions.

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Antenna Placement Optimization for Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communications Learn More

Antenna Placement Optimization for Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communications

Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) technology has the potential to significantly enhance driver safety. The type, placement, and orientation of V2V antennas all affect the performance of the communication system. Simulation software for high frequency electromagnetics can be used to analyze the farfield effects of various vehicle antenna configurations without the need to perform physical testing. We present a simulation-based method for optimizing the placement and orientation of a monopole antenna on a vehicle using a Global Response Surface Method (GRSM).

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MIMO System Simulation in WinProp Learn More

MIMO System Simulation in WinProp

This white paper presents and discusses practical examples of communication simulations involving Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology. Two workflows exist for MIMO simulations in WinProp; this note discusses the workflows, and presents an example with relevant results for each.

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Topology Optimization and Casting Feasibility of a Robot Arm Learn More

Topology Optimization and Casting Feasibility of a Robot Arm

Oftentimes, in the design of a casting, suboptimal structural concepts are developed which at the same time are not castable, requiring multiple and time-consuming design iterations. This paper describes a process to generate both structurally efficient and also castable parts, while reducing the overall design cycle time. The optimal structure is determined by topology optimization, reducing component mass while maintaining performance requirements. This step is followed by a design smoothing operation and then by a casting simulation to check for casting defects. To demonstrate this software driven product design and process validation, solidThinking Inspire® is used to develop the concept design and Click2Cast® for casting process validation.

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Design Optimization for Additive Manufacturing in OptiStruct with consideration of Overhang Angle in Topology Optimization Learn More

Design Optimization for Additive Manufacturing in OptiStruct with consideration of Overhang Angle in Topology Optimization

This paper gives a technical review and guidelines for positioning the current capabilities. Note that the following uses OptiStruct version v2018. There have been some changes to the discussed algorithms compared to previous versions. Generally, version 2017.2.3 can be used to reproduce all the presented results.

Download file-en/Design Optimization for AM in OptiStruct with consideration of OHA in Topology Optimization.pdf (1.13MB)

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