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Presentation introducing a few of the top use cases for the advanced plastic injection molding simulation software, CADMOULD and VARIMOS

The strength assessment of plastic components is often a problem in practice. It is important for the beneficial application of simulation to achieve a good trade-off between the simplest possible modeling approaches (material model, strength asse...

An Introductory webinar to MCalibration® and PolyUMod® by PolymerFEM, now available through the Altair Partner Alliance.

Enabling customers to perform more accurate finite element simulations of products made from rubbers, plastics, adhesives, and biomaterials, PolymerFEM is the latest company to

Lightweight design often is all about replacing metal parts with plastics. Simulation tools are useful to avoid oversized parts and verify its physical integrity early in the development process. But to do it right, influences of the manufacturing...

This presentation highlights how Altair and Faurecia collaborated together to develop a user-friendly connection and conversion toolbox. In the automotive industry, there is a widespread use of different types of fixations such as metal clips, pla...

An Introductory webinar to S-Life Plastics by PART Engineering, available through the Altair Partner Alliance.

S-Life-Plastics is an easy-to-use software that conducts a short-term, long-term and fatigue strength assessment based on FEA results for plastic components made out of unreinforced or r

The development of sustainable, efficient, minimum weight designs requires accurate multi domain material properties. Altair Material Data Center enables designers, engineers, and scientists to browse, search and compare materials in a standalone ...

Nowadays to remain competitive, the need to constantly improve injection molding processes can benefit from modern technological advancements that simulation offers to overcome known disadvantages.

S-Life-Plastics is an easy-to-use software that conducts a short-term, long-term and fatigue strength assessment based on FEA results for plastic components made out of unreinforced or reinforced thermoplastic materials.

In this video EDEM is used to simulate and analyze a tablet compaction process, using the Edinburgh Elasto-Plastic Adhesion contact model (EEPA) to capture the complex behavior of the powders. EDEM enables users to obtain key micro-mechanical info...

In this webinar, a procedure for the prediction of the vibration behavior of short fiber reinforced structural components considering the anisotropic material properties is presented. The fiber orientation is determined by an injection molding sim...

Traditionally, products are created with a draft, which is then specified by taking into account external factors. The next step is to validate, test them as prototypes and adapt the design. If simulation is used as a virtual test, this cycle can be accelerated.

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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...

Nolato specializes in polymer-based product design and manufacturing to virtually design a device to automatically inject medicines, such as insulin for diabetic patients. Within this presentation different aspects of the product design cycle are ...

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

Snap-fits are ubiquitous engineering features used to quickly and inexpensively assemble plastic parts. The geometric, material, and contact nonlinearities associated with snap-fit problems can present modeling challenges. Quasi-static solutions w...

In this webinar, learn how CONVERSE enables the consideration of the real anisotropic mechanical behavior of short-fiber-reinforced materials in an FE analysis. More precisely predicting part stiffness and failure. Significantly enhancing FEA reli...

A simulation adds more value to the user if it is realistic and includes as much as possible, the actual phenomena associated with the manufacturing process. In this context, a complete simulation of forging process would include elasto-plastic de...

This webinar will share advancements in numerical simulation that make the performance of finite element analysis S.A.F.E.R. – Simple, Accurate, Fast, Efficient, and Reliable. It will present an example engineering design problem from the aviation...

The forming process of carbon fiber reinforced plastic has substantially increased in the industry due to its wide applicability towards mass production. The growth in production requires manufacturers to reduce the time required in forming CFRP ...

Presentation introducing a few of the top use cases for the composites software, CONVERSE.

This webinar shows possibilities to enhance your FE Analysis of fiber-reinforced plastics and explains the best way to extract more reliable information out of your parts. Focusing on the anisotropic material behavior, the workflow will show the m...

LW Finder takes the guesswork out of strain gauge placement. LW Finder provides accuracy and control when using strain gauges to measure structural loads. It finds the best locations to place strain gauges and predicts measurement error.

In today’s remarkably competitive markets, the packaging industry needs to be highly responsive to the rapidly changing industry they operate in. New products are being produced all the time, and packaging professionals must maintain a fine balanc...

Using the anisotropic material behavior of short fiber reinforced plastics by assigning the fiber orientation and appropriate material behavior to your parts easily. The general procedure and the outcoming benefit will be shown with industrial par...

The Altair Partner Alliance's Technical Director reflects on proper design validation when it comes to fiber reinforced plastics.

Total Materia provides the world’s most comprehensive material properties database covering over 250,000 metals, plastics, composites and a range of other non-metallic materials. This webinar is designed to help demonstrate how having the right ...

The Matereality Workgroup Material DatabasePro solution enabled through the Altair Partner Alliance allows Altair HyperWorks users access to browser-based software to build and maintain productivity enhancing material databases on the same platfor...

Mathematical optimisation methods can provide significant support in virtual CAE part development. In the early phases of the project topology optimisation affords valuable clues to the design of the geometry of the part.

Interview with Sascha Pazour from PART Engineering about possible applications, tips and facts about using CONVERSE.

Kanto Auto Works, Ltd. is a core member of the Toyota Group, developing and producing Toyota vehicle bodies. The company’s organic-material engineering department evaluates and develops plastic parts to be used in vehicle bodies. In the initial st...

This paper describes how a carbon fiber reinforced plastic body of a future city car was optimized to minimize weight. The frame includes numerous parts, some of which have a simple constant laminate structure and some are more complex having addi...

The drive for continuous mass reductions in spacecraft structures has promoted the use of carbon fibre reinforced plastics. CFRP has excellent specific stiffness and strength, which makes it possible to construct lightweight structures. CFRP is ty...

The automobile industry provides many challenges which require the use of leading-edge technologies to keep up with increasing performance demands. All physical structures exhibit nonlinear behavior to some extent. They may be made of rubber or pl...