Webinar: Structural and Thermal Coupling with Electromagnetic Systems

Learn about the latest updates and advancements in optimization. From leveraging the power of composite material optimization to multi-model optimization (MMO) linking the design variable through different engineering models and applying failsafe as your engineering constrain to your products. Altair OptiStruct seamlessly integrates structural and modal optimization and analysis and provides an integrated platform for advanced optimization topics.

This webinar focuses on the design of electric motors and will show how multiphysics simulation and optimization allow to innovate and reduce costs, while considering multiple design constraints. Spin Applicazioni Magnetiche, a company creating innovative solutions of rare earth free synchronous reluctance motors for various power levels and applications will present a practical use case, including a detailed comparison between simulation and test results, considering electromagnetic, thermal and vibration responses.

The path towards electrification requires significant investment, changes to technologies, development processes and even organizational structures. This introductory webinar will reveal Altair's simulation- and data-driven design tools to accelerate all electrification projects by helping to make good decisions early. The session will cover solutions for the design of the various parts of electric drive systems, from the battery to the wheels; while considering system integration and the architecture changes that must be made at vehicle level to build innovative energy efficient electric mobility solutions.

Over the past two decades, Altair® OptiStruct® has evolved into a highly capable and competitive solver with comprehensive analysis capabilities that include linear, nonlinear, fatigue, and multiphysics analyses. This webinar is focused on analysis workflows that address NVH, durability, fatigue, and optimization requirements applied to complex Automotive systems, all within the same solver environment and using just one input format. The efficiency gains from adopting these workflows have also been attested by OEMs.

Lars Fredriksson introduces Altair development support strategies for e-mobility and provides examples to showcase how these strategies help companies develop e-powertrain systems with an increased level of innovation in reduced time.

Featuring Illya Arcos, Staff engineer in GE Aviation for the Engine Dynamics Group, this webinar provides an overview of current GE Engine Dynamics workflows which are integrated with tools like Altair HyperWorks and OptiStruct, with modeling techniques and solutions to capture the physics associated with engine behavior under various operating static/dynamics conditions accurately, using advanced rotor dynamics technologies. The presentation shows how OptiStruct provides an accurate and reliable rotor dynamics design solution that enables engineers to predict critical speed and evaluate the effects of instabilities on virtual prototypes, saving time and money while improving safety. Contents: - Introduction to Altair OptiStruct Vibration and Acoustics solution - Rotordynamics evaluation with OptiStruct at GE Aviation - Q&A session Duration: 56 minutes

Featuring Richard Wiseman, Expert - Chassis at Aston Martin Lagonda, this presentation gives an insight into the use of Altair analysis tools for optimisation, strength and durability analysis in chassis R&D. It reveals how a CAE led design approach for the DBX model resulted in zero chassis component failures during physical test. Contents: - Introduction to Altair and Altair OptiStruct - Design optimisation, strength and durability analysis in Aston Martin chassis research & development - Discussion and Q&A session - Summary Duration: 50 minutes

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 optimisation enabled solution. Ryan will showcase a range of typical applications, detailing how the technology is helping the team to reduce development time while optimising performance.

This webinar introduces Altair CFD and reveals how it can help organizations reduce software expense and deliver accurate results faster by providing all the major CFD technologies under a single license.

Whether you’re looking to optimize gearbox oiling, analyze tank sloshing, perform aerodynamics studies, or reduce cooling fan noise, Altair CFD provides the technology you need, as you need it – utilizing state-of-the art GPU calculations to reduce modeling turnaround times.

This webinar covers:
• The different CFD methods available with Altair CFD
• The range of fluids problems that can be solved with Altair CFD, including some unique applications and customer examples
• How Altair’s unique licensing system enables companies to reduce software expenditure
• How Altair’s flexible approach to Cloud and HPC helps deliver results faster
• What is next for Altair CFD?

Speakers
James R. Scapa, Founder and CEO
Mahender Reddy, SVP CFD & Manufacturing
Uwe Schramm, CTO

Duration: 35 minutes

From industrial machinery to EVs, power tools to spacecraft, vibration and acoustic characteristics play a crucial role in the design process. This webinar will demonstrate how Altair OptiStruct can analyse and optimise vibration and acoustic behavior spanning a wide frequency spectrum; revealing how advanced diagnostic utilities can help you to identify and resolve root-causes in the shortest amount of time.

Strength and durability play a crucial part in the consumers' perception of product quality. Optimising designs for such characteristics is increasingly important as engineering teams operate down-gauging strategies to save weight and explore alternative architectures to accommodate batteries and electric drives. This webinar will demonstrate how Altair OptiStruct improves process efficiency by integrating strength and durability analyses in the same model, eliminating the need for separate solver interfaces and formats.

Featuring Tim Mumford, Senior Engineer Strength and Durability at Jaguar Land Rover, this webinar will reveal the recent advancements in the non-linear capability of OptiStruct; showing how the technology met the company's exacting simulation needs while providing an opportunity to reduce software spend.

The Mining industry faces a lot of challenges and remains under high pressure to control costs, improve operational efficiency as well as meeting stricter environmental regulations. Innovation and the use of technology play a key role in addressing these and in shaping the future of mining. This webinar will explore how simulation and advanced technologies such as digital twins, machine learning and Internet of things (IoT) can help mines increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve safety. You will hear from industry leaders and technical experts on how Altair’s solutions can be used for efficient development and operation.

The Mining industry faces a lot of challenges and remains under high pressure to control costs, improve operational efficiency as well as meeting stricter environmental regulations. Innovation and the use of technology play a key role in addressing these and in shaping the future of mining. This webinar will explore how simulation and advanced technologies such as digital twins, machine learning and Internet of things (IoT) can help mines increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve safety. You will hear from industry leaders and technical experts on how Altair’s solutions can be used for efficient development and operation.

The Mining industry faces a lot of challenges and remains under high pressure to control costs, improve operational efficiency as well as meeting stricter environmental regulations. Innovation and the use of technology play a key role in addressing these and in shaping the future of mining. This webinar will explore how simulation and advanced technologies such as digital twins, machine learning and Internet of things (IoT) can help mines increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve safety. You will hear from industry leaders and technical experts on how Altair’s solutions can be used for efficient development and operation.

ATCx Poland 2020 presented by Channel Partner DesArt

Improving the ESL using Complete Vehicle Correlation In the previous webinar, the development of an ESL has been shown based on a complete vehicle simulation. In order to validate this new approach, a comprehensive correlation work has been performed. Using the dynamic distortion in all closure body openings as correlation criteria offer a unique possibility to increase the understanding of the load from both the engine and the wheel suspension. This webinar presents this correlation where a test vehicle is driven on different test tracks both in reality and virtually. Presenter: Jens Weber | CAE Engineer, CEVT

ESL Development Based on Simulation - Application example The body stiffness has a major impact on the Squeak & Rattle performance of a car. Since the body structure of electrical/autonomous cars will differ clearly from traditional bodies, an enhanced requirement is needed to limit the distortion in the closure openings. This webinar presents a new approach of defining a requirement based on closure deformations using an equivalent static load (ESL), which considers both the reduction from a complete vehicle to a BIG and from a dynamic load to a static load. In addition, an example is shown how ESL can be used as input for body optimization. Presenter: Viktor Jonsson | CAE Engineer (Consultant), CEVT

A transformação digital na engenharia de produto tem modificado o mercado e é de extrema importância para que empresas criem e desenvolvam novas máquinas e equipamentos com a mais alta qualidade, em menor tempo e reduzindo custos. Pensando nisso, a Altair apresentará um webinar (workshop online) sobre Como acelerar o lançamento de novos implementos, máquinas agrícolas e equipamentos pesados. Neste encontro, mostramos como a simulação computacional é uma rápida solução de investigação e análise de desempenho, além da possibilidade de simular qualquer situação de operação, seja no campo, rodovia ou canteiro de obras.

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 design efficiency and reduce physical testing costs continues to be one of the best ways to address engineering challenges in the Marine industry.

Consumer Electronics products are getting more complex every day. This often requires more physics to be addressed during the design phase, while the development cycles are getting shorter. This webinar presents Altair’s workflow to enable simulation of structural, thermal, acoustics and fatigue properties in an integrated Multiphysics environment.

As high-tech electronics companies adopt Multiphysics solutions, they may introduce new complexity in the development process coupling multiple tools. Model setup, remeshing, and design modification offer no additional value and increase the product lead time. This webinar presents Altair’s single model multi electronics system in an integrated Multiphysics environment.

The operating temperature of Li-ion batteries used in modern electric vehicles should be maintained within an allowable range to avoid thermal runaway and degradation. Poor thermal management affects the charging and discharging power, cycle life, cell balancing, capacity and fast charging capability of the battery pack. Hence, a thermal management system is needed in order to enhance the performance and to extend the life cycle of the battery pack. Altair’s comprehensive CFD solutions provides the complete thermal management using both 3D and 1D frameworks using Altair’s AcuSolve and GE FlowSimulator respectively. Detailed analysis of active and passive cooling methods and, the effective combination of both is in focus. The study and optimization of cooling module design strategy such as coolant type, direct contact or jacket cooling, serial or parallel cooling , module shape or dimensions, coolant flow rate combined with cell characteristics and driving cycles, etc are the key areas of work. The BTMS is of utmost importance to EV/HEV. The webinar focuses on the overview of Altair’s thermal solutions and how the software AcuSolve and FlowSimulator plays a very important role in providing all-round BTMS solution.

This workshop will showcase a process-oriented multidisciplinary simulation environment to accurately analyse the performance of complex rotating machines. The participants would learn about multiple physics analysis of motors; including electromagnetics, structural, thermal, and fluid dynamics using highly automated modelling tasks, helping to drastically reduce the time spent creating finite element models and interpreting results. Unique solution by Altair for rotating machinery process takes setup to a solution, time from hours to minutes which allows engineer to try multiple design iterations in a short time and create a performance curve in the automated environment.

Electromagnetic and Thermal Simulation of PMSM (IPM) Motor

Rated Torque Simulation of IPM Motor Using Altair Flux

Save Costs by Moving Non-Linear Physics Loadcases to Altair OptiStruct

CAD Based Parametric Optimisation Using SimLab St & HyperStudy

Nonlinear Static & Dynamic Analysis With Pretension Effects Using OptiStruct

MDO Director - Introduction to Altair's Multi-Disciplinary Optimization

Composite Design and Analysis Using HyperMesh-OptiStruct

The Aero Utility tools available under User Profile>Engineering Tools>Aerospace options enables Aerospace engineers with unique modelling capabilties required in building Aero models. In this Webinar, we will explore a few of those utilities viz Airframe meshing, Composites Material Orientations, Compare FE contents and so on.

This is an introductory course for using HyperMesh CFD to create and set up finite element (CFD) models for CFD analysis. A combination of lectures and exercises will familiarize students with the HyperMesh environment, process, and suite of tools needed to start using HyperMesh in their work.

The tool allows you to alter finite element models while keeping mesh distortions to a minimum. HyperMorph can be used to: • Change the profile and the dimensions of your mesh • Map an existing mesh onto a new geometry, and • Create shape variables that can be used for optimization

This tool allows engineering analysts to validate CAD models received from the design teams, automatically identifying potential issues that could slow down the pre-processing stage of the simulation life cycle. The solution identifies part intersections, missing welds and incorrect bolt-nut positions on an entire assembly structure and generates comprehensive reports.

A growing number of companies aspire to perform multiphysics, but each added analysis tool introduces new complexity to a development process. Model translation, remeshing, design modification – these tasks offer no added value and increase the likelihood of error. Altair SimLab enables users to model and solve multiple physics, including nonlinear analysis, within one unified platform. Each analysis runs from one master model, allowing you to spend less time prepping and more time solving. Join the webinar to see these powerful workflows in action. In this webinar, we will demo the design of a smart speaker with an emphasis on nonlinear analysis, multiphysics, and improving perceived sound with vibro-acoustic simulation.

Supported by the streamlined, intuitive workflows in HyperMesh, running nonlinear analysis in OptiStruct is easier and more powerful than ever. Nonlinear explicit analysis is now supported, enabling simulation of drop tests, impact analysis, and more. Check out this webinar to see how Altair’s unified modeling and simulation platform can eliminate tedious meshing tasks and accelerate your nonlinear analysis processes. In this webinar, we'll demo 5 different car door abuse use-cases, solving using linear dynamics, nonlinear quasi-static implicit, and nonlinear explicit dynamics analysis in OptiStruct.

This webinar presents a complete composites workflow for all industries, the simulation-driven design workflow allows for an efficient process that enables time and money reduction.

The crankshaft of an engine is a highly dynamically loaded component that is continuously optimized and optimized in terms of design and production technology. In order to be able to reproduce this in the simulation, the essential influences must be considered. This includes the dynamically behaviour in combination with the engine, the material properties and the application of the loads and their transfer to other parts (bearings). The modal approach has established itself as a proven method here, whereby a modal basis is determined in the FEM so that the crankshaft is integrated as a flexible body in the MKS model of the engine, and so that an entire engine run-up can be simulated. The modal participation factors are obtained from the MBS simulation, which are used together with the modal stresses for the safety factor calculation. This workflow requires the combination of different simulation tools. The challenge is to organize the data transfer between the tools efficient and correct. In this example, the workflow is realized using OptiStruct from Altair for FEM calculation, EXCITE from AVL as MKS tool and FEMFAT from Magna Powertrain ECS as Fatigue solver. This makes it possible to simulate a complex engine run-up with consideration of the ignition bearing forces and to calculate the fatigue life of the crankshaft in FEMFAT. This webinar, details of the simulation workflow of the 4-cylinder crankshaft will be presented and the effects of several influencing variables on the fatigue life will be studied.

This webinar will consider new approaches to the old problems of optimized execution, the role of new technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) in improvement, and how to implement and integrate tools and technologies to build an efficient and cost-effective technology stack.