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Multiphysics Analysis of E-Motors with Altair SimLab

When designing an electric motor, constraints from different physics must be fulfilled. Electric motor design requires multi-physics analysis: Altair® SimLab® provides a single user experience for all these different physics.

Inside SimLab, Altair® Flux® can be invoked to run the electromagnetic

Use Cases, Video

Design Innovative, Structurally Efficient Products with Optimization

Applied early in the product development lifecycle, Altair® Inspire™ accelerates the creation, optimization, and study of innovative, structurally efficient parts and assemblies. Powered by Altair OptiStruct®, the industry standard for topology op...

Webinars

Make Better Product Decisions Earlier with Conceptional Design Webinar

Altair simulation-driven design changed product development forever, enabling engineers to reduce design iterations and prototype testing. Discover how Altair® Inspire™ enables rapid design iterations through simplified modeling workflows to help ...

Webinars

AdaptroSim for Altair Marine Applications

In this video, you'll receive an overview of using AdaptroSim for Altair for marine applications.

Product Overview Videos

MAESTRO and Altair Workflow for Ship Structural Design, Analysis, and Optimization

In this video you'll receive an overview of MAESTRO and it's integration with Altair solutions for ship design.

MAESTRO by MAESTRO Marine LLC is a design, analysis, evaluation, and optimization tool specifically tailored for floating structures. MAESTRO is available through the Altair Partner Al

Product Overview Videos

Simplify and Scale FEA Post-Processing - Read, Manipulate, Create, and Visualize Custom Simulation Results with Altair Compose®

An engineer working for Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation Marine Systems (NGSC-MS) was given a project to improve their teams’ current NASTRAN results post-processing workflow by writing a script to automate the task. They reached out to Altair...

Customer Stories

Reducing Development Time with Non-Linear Analysis at Prodrive

Featuring Ryan Vann, Chief Engineer – Structures and Analysis at renowned engineering consultancy, Prodrive; this webinar will discuss why the company adopted OptiStruct ahead of its traditional non-linear solver and the advantages offered by an o...

Webinars

AI Powered Product Design

Dr. Fatma Kocer VP, Engineering Data Science at Altair showcases the impact of AI in development environments. In particular on how CAE tools will evolve and Design Exploration is taken to the next level.

ATCx Industrial Machinery 2021

Engineers will make AI work

Anthony Mc Loughlin VP Sales Data Analytics, EMEA presents how to empower engineering to make data & AI work.

ATCx Industrial Machinery 2021

Guide to Weld Certification

Welded assemblies are widely used across industrial sectors. The design processes in rail, construction, marine, heavy machinery, pressure vessel construction, and many other industries rely heavily on regulations, codes, and norms such as FKM, DVS-1612, and Eurocode-3.

This guide describes the

eGuide

How to calculate a motion RAO with the Generic Frigate sample project

This video shows how to set up and calculate the seakeeping motions for the Generic Frigate and report the results in an RAO format.

Use Cases, Video

Working with the Generic Frigate sample project

This video tutorial shows the process of opening the Generic Frigate project. Several steps are needed to add details already configured for the ShipMo3D project. Download the sample project files from here: https://dsaocean.com/shipmo3d/downloads/

Quick Start

Manoeuvring demonstration using Esso Osaka

This video tutorial makes use of the sample project vessel Esso Osaka to demonstrate a time domain manoeuvring operation. The turning circle of the Esso Osaka is calculated.

Quick Start

Overview of ShipMo3D

This video tutorial provides an overview of ShipMo3D. The applications involved that are used for generating the hull mesh, calculating hydrodynamics, and then evaluating ship seakeeping and maneuvering response are presented.

Product Overview Videos

Data-Driven Warranty Risk Profile Analysis

Most manufacturers must handle large numbers of warranty claims related to a variety of products and components. The volume of claims can easily run to millions per year for consumer goods manufacturers. Patterns within claims data may indicate em...

Use Cases

TEAMTAO Engineers the Future of Deep-Sea Exploration

At the end of 2015, the XPRIZE foundation launched the Shell Ocean Discovery competition, a three-year global challenge to advance deep-sea exploration using autonomous subsea drones. Teams competed to develop underwater robots that could fully ma...

Customer Stories

Improving the Ship Building Block Assembly Method: An Engineering Approach

Block construction is a modern shipbuilding method which involves the assembly of prefabricated modular sections. Cross-sections of the superstructure are pre-built in a shipyard, taken to the building dock, then hoisted into position and attached.

Block splitting and lifting schemes are largely

Technical Document

A Simulation Driven Approach for Evaluating & Improving the Block Lifting Method of Ship Building

This session will introduce you to the Crane CAE Manager from Altair, which is a radically different solution that provides unique advantages for Block Lifting Method consisting of

1. Build - Specific Block Systems
2. Analyse - The planned lifting operations using simulation methods
3. Evaluat

Webinars

ATCx Poland 2020 - Overview of Altair Aerospace Model Build Strategy

Overview of Altair Aerospace Model Build Strategy presented by Shan Nageswaran, VP, Aerospace, Marine and heavy industry verticals, Altair

Conference Presentations

Evolution & Usage of Electromagnetic Simulation in the Naval & Shipbuilding Industry

The Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding Industry is becoming even more important in the connected world. The ability to accelerate turnaround time and reduce cost is becoming a key driver to success. The use of simulation technologies to improve d...

Webinars

FEA Analysis for Faster and More Accurate Shipbuilding

An Introductory webinar to MAESTRO, a design, analysis, evaluation and optimization tool specifically tailored for floating structures now available through the Altair Partner Alliance.

MAESTRO is a design, analysis, evaluation and optimization tool specifically tailored for floating structures,

Webinars

MAESTRO Datasheet

Capabilities and benefits of MAESTRO.

Brochures

MAESTRO Use Case

Top use cases for MAESTRO. A design, analysis, evaluation and optimization tool specifically tailored for floating structures.

Use Cases

Altair for Marine

From the design and manufacture of small recreational crafts and large oil tankers to the most technologically advanced aircraft carriers, Altair has assisted the world’s leading shipbuilders and boat designers to develop higher performing, safer ...

Brochures

Ship Foundation Design using DDAM-coupled Optimization Methods

This paper presents a case study of a ship foundation optimized for DDAM early in the design phase to validate and optimize the
structural integrity of a ship foundation subject to underwater shock conditions.

Technical Document

How to Control Uncertainty in Buoy Drag Coefficient When Designing Oceanographic Moorings

Blog article by Ryan Nicoll, CTO of DSA, creators of ProteusDS.

Technical Document

Taking on the Shell XPRIZE with Help from a Digital Twin

Chris Wilkinson, CTO at SMD speaks at the UK Altair Technology Conference 2019. An XPRIZE challenge is designed to source new approaches to solve difficult problems thereby disrupting existing markets or creating new ones. Our oceans cover over 70...

Conference Presentations

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 st

Conference Presentations

Performance Superyacht Sails with Lightweight Anchor Arm

Optimization software enables naval architecture and engineering firm to design a next-generation superyacht anchor arm that is less than half the assembled weight of its predecessor.

Technical Document

How to Instantly Assess Oceanographic Mooring Designs

This webinar presents a different way of solving a static mooring line profile and the effects on calculation speed, mooring profile design, and limitations for dynamic analysis. This webinar will include a brief overview of our dynamic analysis s...

Webinars

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.

Conference Presentations

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 ele...

Use Cases, Video

DSA uses HyperWorks to Streamline its Marine Hydrodynamics Analysis with ProteusDS and ShipMo3D

APA Partner, DSA, uses Altair HyperMesh, AcuSolve, and Virtual Wind Tunnel to create high-quality hydrodynamic mesh and models for ship and marine structures.

Customer Stories

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 ope...

Customer Stories

Evolution and Usage of EM Simulation in the Naval Industry

Altair Feko’s broad solver technology offering is well suited to the efficient and accurate simulation of electrically very large structures.

In this webinar we will offer several use cases of Naval related electromagnetic simulations using Feko.

Besides more general problems like antenna plac

Webinars

HyperWorks and OptiStruct in Composite Yacht Design

Reichel-Pugh Yacht Design is a leader in design and engineering of a wide variety of sailing yachts, from 14ft club racing dinghies to 100ft maxi superyachts that hold numerous race records in the world’s most prestigious yachting events. In addit...

Conference Presentations

How to Accurately Assess Tug and Barge Operations Using ProteusDS, ShipMo3D, and HyperWorks

This webinar will show how accurate models of vessels and towlines can be built with ProteusDS and ShipMo3D. It will also discuss the development of a new thruster and controller model in ProteusDS. Lastly, this webinar will demonstrate exciting n...

Webinars

Introduction to ProteusDS and ShipMo3D by Dynamic Systems Analysis Ltd.

Dynamic Systems Analysis Ltd. (DSA) is an ocean engineering software and consultancy company. DSA makes it possible for ocean engineers, naval architects, oceanographers – or anybody with business in the water – to assess the motions and loads on ...

Webinars

Close Hauled with Hyperworks - Student Team of Politecnico di Torino Sails Away from Competition

The project focused on the design and construction of a skiff, a particular kind of sail boat, within the given regatta regulation. With its modeling and calculation tools, HyperWorks helped the team to significantly reduce weight while increasing...

Customer Stories

HyperWorks Enables Ingeniacity to Reduce Mass of Sailing Yacht Composite Bowsprit by 65%

Altair's HyperWorks Suite provided the pre-processing, optimization and FE-solving tools to help create a new bowsprit design that was 34kg lighter than the previous model

Customer Stories
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