Altair HyperWorks: Morphing Examples on a Turbine Blade

Altair HyperWorks' Design Explorer is an end-to-end workflow for real time performance prediction and evaluation.

Results port-processing in Altair HyperWorks includes the abiility to automatically identify and tag hotspots on contoured results. Users can easily customize their search paramenters, browse through results and query individual hotspots.

Altair HyperWorks post-processing capabilities include automated report generation. In very few clicks users can generate comprehensive reports of their analyses and export them to either an html summary or an MS PowerPoint slide deck.

Altair’s Noise Vibration and Harshness Director is the most advanced full vehicle assembly building framework on the market. It enables the implementation of global NVH best practices while covering the entire NVH workflow from model setup, assembly management to postprocessing.

Altair’s Squeak and Rattle Director (SnRD) enables expert and novice computer aided engineering (CAE) engineers to rapidly identify and eliminate squeak and rattle in products at an early design stage. By utilizing a novel set of tools and methods in a streamlined, semi-automated process that is fully integrated in the Altair HyperWorks™ environment, SnRD simplifies otherwise complex and time-consuming tasks.

Create detailed hydraulic circuits & actuation systems as part of your multi-disciplinary system simulations, especially for heavy machinery & agricultural equipment, in combination with multi-body systems (Altair MotionSolve®) and granular material systems (Altair EDEM®).

Many engineering projects start with CAD geometries. In order to perform design exploration studies and optimization on CAD-based FE models, an automated process is required including CAD, Preprocessor, Solver and Design exploration tools. This example presents a solution to implement CAD tools into an automated simulation-driven design exploration and optimization process.

Due to the large scale nature of Architectural, Engineering & Construction projects, frequent change orders, and on-time delivery pressure, more often than not the ability to use traditional simulation methods for design guidance and validation is simply time and resource prohibitive.

The presentation outlines a solution strategy for how a digital twin of a milling machine is solving mechatronic challenges. To improve cycle times, accuracy, and addressing vibration problems a holistic system simulation serves as the basis for optimization. The efficient modeling of the real system behavior with flexibilities, contacts, gaps, friction, nonlinearities in the drives (incl. saturation effects of motors), power electronics in combination with the control system is the basis for efficient controller design and optimization of the control parameters. The dynamic interaction of multiple system components combining 3D finite elements analysis multi-body dynamics and control system helps avoiding Tracking-, drag-, positioning errors rebound, and accumulation effects.  

Total hip replacement surgeries are seeing an increase in demand, but between 10-20% of these patients may require a revision surgery because of a failure or wearing out of the prosthesis. When an implant causes a change in the typical stresses on the surrounding bone, a phenomenon called stress shielding occurs. Stress shielding increases the risk of bone resorption, bone fracture, and revision surgeries. Topology optimization helps medical product designers develop implants that better match the stiffness of healthy bone and improve the comfort and longevity of the prosthesis. In this study, Altair uses simulation to design an optimized solid-lattice hip implant that reduced stress shielding by more than 50%.

Altair offers industry-leading engineering analysis and optimization tools from simulation-driven design concepts to detailed virtual product validation, and simplified modeling workflows to advanced high-fidelity model building. Whether big or small, our customers trust their decision making to Altair, the pioneer of simulation-driven design.

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Altair HyperWorks introduces a new workflow for beam modeling, particularly suited for GFEM of large aerospace structures along with many other applications.

The new Altair HyperWorks release includes workflows leveraging the model-as-a-menu paradigm to easily setup models for automotive crash analyses, including seatbelt routing, seat and dummy positioning, as well as pedestrial impact setup.

A new CFD setup workflow has been introduced in the latest release of Altair HyperWorks. Preparing any geometry for CFD analysis is now handled through a semi-automated, extremely efficient workflow.

The latest release of Altair SimLab includes an automated workflow to setup a topology optimization study on components withstanding fatigue loads. The solution leverages Altair OptiStruct's capabilities and enables to setup, run and analysis the optimization results all within SimLab.

Altair HyperWorks includes a new workflow to easily generate the design space for topology optimization and generate a smooth results interpretation with PolyNURBS. The use case demonstrated here shows a complete redesign of an engine cradle utilizing additive manufacturing.

Altair HyperWorks has been reimagined with new efficient workflows for the most common daily tasks a simulation engineer needs to address. In this short clip comparing the classic HyperMesh workflow for geometry creation with the new HyperWorks process to generate a bracket, we're completing the task in 44% less time and almost 60% less mouse clicks.

Altair HyperWorks introduces new and efficient workflows to build and manage complex assemblies. In this example, we're starting from the complete BOM of a vehicle's body-in-white, showing how to manage individual parts and subsystems to generate an high-fidelity mesh in a few clicks.

Watch the video to learn how Altair enables designs for production, moving additive manufacturing from an advanced capability to a production capacity with the power of simulation.

The design of a high-performance e-Motor is a complex undertaking. Engineers have conflicting constraints to consider including efficiency, temperature, weight, size and cost. To explore more ideas, better understand their designs and improve performance, Altair HyperWorks™ has a workflow to guide motor designers through an efficient process of Simulation-Driven Design. This analysis and optimization solution supports multi-disciplinary teamwork and reduces design times.

You know Altair OptiStruct as the leader in topology optimization, but did you know that the use of OptiStruct for nonlinear structural analysis has been increasing rapidly at leading companies? Teams are benefiting from a modern solver technology with linear and nonlinear capabilities – backed by Altair’s industry leading support – while reducing costs through the unique value of HyperWorks Units.

A beam example of how the new Altair HyperWorks workflows allow to quickly extract midsurfaces, generate a mesh and apply morphing.

Altair HyperWorks introduces a very intuitive and powerful workflow to quickly generate design and non-design space for optimization runs. It also provides a library for automotive related non-design spaces, such as engine, seats, engine, sunroofs, and wheel arches. The results can be quickly altered with manipulators.

Based on the example of a floor panel, this video shows how easy it is to generate new geometries and meshes in Altair HyperWorks. Some adjustments to the mesh are done with the morphing functionality. These mesh geometry changes are saved as shape, e.g. to use it for a subsequent optimization.

Presentation introducing a few of the top use cases for the design optimization software, QSD.

Predicting the impact of the manufacturing process on composite materials.

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.