Altair for Structures Applications

Electronic system design (ESD) is having a greater influence on almost every type of product requiring new simulation tools to help achieve electronic, electrical, mechanical, thermal, and connectivity goals. Altair’s simulation-driven design tools enable your team of specialized engineers to collaborate across all aspects of printed circuit board development from concept to manufacturing. Our products streamline your process, eliminate design iterations, and reduce time-to-market.

In 2021, Altair sponsored an SME audience survey to learn more about the adoption of engineering simulation and digital twin initiatives within the field of industrial manufacturing. This poll of 124 manufacturing professionals produced some interesting findings about how companies currently use simulation as well as what the biggest roadblocks are in the way of future technology adoption, including the use of digital twins.

From detailed component analysis to full systems performance, Altair provides a range of scalable solvers and robust pre- and post-processing software for CFD.

In the data center and in the cloud, Altair’s industry-leading HPC tools let you orchestrate, visualize, optimize, and analyze your most demanding workloads.

Altair’s industrial design tools allow designers, architects, and digital artists to create, evaluate, and visualize their vision faster than ever before.

Altair provides an industry-leading portfolio of multiphysics-enabled software to simulate a wide range of interacting physical models including fluid-structure interaction (FSI), flexible bodies, aeroacoustics, and thermomechanical simulation.

Altair offers a unique set of simulation tools to evaluate product feasibility, optimize the manufacturing process, and run virtual try-outs for many traditional, subtractive, and additive manufacturing processes.e

We created this guide to help managers of CAE budgets navigate the multifaceted decisions companies must make when choosing a nonlinear analysis software vendor. Additionally, we’ve compiled some tips and best practices for successfully managing these deployments to satisfy the needs of growing engineering teams while extracting maximum return on investment.

Take home a modern nonlinear solver and state-of-the-art compute cluster to start revolutionizing your engineering decision-making on day one. Make agile design decisions, boost throughput, and reduce time-to-market by combining the modern nonlinear solver capabilities of OptiStruct with Altair’s Unlimited appliance.

Altair understands that design processes are very specific to individual companies. As part of our commitment to enable our customers to create innovative design solutions efficiently, our services group routinely tailors Altair HyperWorks™ solutions to meet their unique requirements, embedding the simulation platform with client specific intelligence.

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.

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.

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.

Altair SimLab is a process oriented, feature based finite element modeling software that allows you to quickly and accurately simulate engineering behavior of complex assemblies. SimLab automates simulation-modeling tasks to reduce human errors and time spent manually creating finite element models and interpreting results. SimLab is not a traditional off-the-shelf pre- and post-processing software, but a vertical application development platform for capturing and automating simulation processes.

Altair's Squeak and Rattle Director (SnRD) is a novel set of software automations to rapidly identify and analyze design alternatives to eliminate the root causes of squeak and rattle (S&R) in assemblies. Tailored to be deeply integrated within your environment and processes, SnRD offers a complete set of capabilities to streamline the entire S&R simulation workflow process from model creation to results visualization.

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In the truck and bus industries, Altair MotionSolve is used to assess system durability, evaluate and improve new suspension systems, optimize the ride and handling characteristics of vehicles, evaluate and optimize subsystem performance and validate mechatronics components.

Altair Radioss is a leading structural analysis solver for non-linear problems under dynamic loadings. It is highly differentiated for scalability, quality, robustness, and consists of features for multiphysics simulation and advanced materials such as composites. Radioss is used across many industries worldwide to improve the crashworthiness, safety, and manufacturability of structural designs.

Altair MotionSolve is an integrated solution to analyze and optimize multi-body systems. MotionSolve offers powerful modeling, analysis, visualization, and optimization capabilities for simulating complex systems. You can perform kinematic, dynamic, static, quasi-static, linear, and vibration analyses. MotionSolve helps you to understand and improve the performance of your product.

Altair OptiStruct is an industry proven, modern structural analysis solver for linear and nonlinear simulation under static and dynamic loadings. It is the most widely used solution for structural design and optimization in all industries. Altair OptiStruct helps designers and engineers analyze and optimize structures for performance characteristics such as strength, durability, and NVH, to rapidly develop innovative, lightweight, and structurally efficient designs.

Altair HyperGraph is a powerful data analysis and plotting tool with interfaces to many popular file formats. Its intuitive interface and sophisticated math engine make it easy to process 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.

Altair Compose enables engineers, scientists & product creators to efficiently perform numerical computations, develop algorithms, analyze & visualize various types of data. Compose is a high level, matrix-based numerical computing language as well as an interactive & unified programming environment for all types of math from solving matrix analysis, differential equations to performing signal analysis and control design.

Altair HyperView is a complete post-processing and visualization environment for finite-element analysis (FEA), multi-body system simulation, digital video and engineering data. Amazingly fast 3D graphics, open architecture design and unparalleled functionality set a new standard for speed and integration of CAE results post-processing. Coupling these features with HyperView’s advanced process automation tools dramatically improves visualization, correlation, and reporting results.

This brief tutorial introduces the new connectivity between Matereality Workgroup Material DatabasePro and RADIOSS.

The Altair Bushing Model helps you fit bushing test data to empirical models and subsequently simulate multibody models with fitted bushings to produce simulation results with highly realistic behavior. High fidelity bushings let you accurately evaluate vehicle dynamics, durability, and ride and comfort characteristics for automobiles. Below are details about the workflow and components of the Altair Bushing Model.

MotionSolve – Altair delivers a multibody integrated solution to analyze and improve mechanical system performance. In the aerospace industry, MotionSolve is used to simulate dynamic systems including ground aircraft operation (taxi, takeoff, landing, braking and rejected take-off), landing gear retraction and evaluation of gear forces, flap mechanism, flight control and dynamics, door opening mechanisms, helicopter design, satellite control and packaging study of seats.

MotionSolve – Altair’s multi-body solution is an integrated solution to analyze and improve mechanical system performance. In the energy industry, MotionSolve is used to simulate wind turbine dynamics systems. An accurate virtual wind turbine can be constructed by considering high-fidelity components, such as aerodynamic loads, wind loads, detailed structural sub-systems and co-simulation with control systems. MotionSolve can be used to predict the loads coming on to the structure, simulate extreme events (such as emergency stop), offshore wind turbine dynamics and extract stress/strain for further durability studies.

Presentation outlining the multiphysics workflow between DSHplus and MotionSolve.

Altair's Squeak and Rattle Director (SRD) is a novel set of comprehensive software automations to rapidly identify and analyze design alternatives to eliminate the root causes of squeak and rattle (S&R) in assemblies. Tailored to be deeply integrated within your environment and processes, SRD offers a complete set of capabilities to streamline the entire S&R simulation workflow process from model creation to results visualization.

Overview of the interface between DSHplus and MotionSolve