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Britax-Römer
Reducing Weight & Improving Safety of Child Restraint Systems
While safety remains the primary focus for all child seat manufacturers, consumers also look for other desirable attributes when making their purchasing decision such as styling, ease of use and carrying weight. During the development of a new restraint system called the ‘Trifix’ seat, Britax-Römer was looking for ways to improve safety performance and accelerate the development cycle, while reducing manufacturing complexity, weight and costs.
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HyperWorks 11.0 Rollout Webinar Series - Multi-body Dynamics
HyperWorks Multibody Dynamics offering in 11.0 makes significant improvements to solver Speed, Robustness & Accuracy. In addition, MotionSolve has a greatly enhanced co-simulation layer along with support for Interpreted Language based User-subroutines.
MotionView 11.0 contains many new features and capabilities that enhance the user experience and enables engineers to efficiently design, evaluate and refine mechanical systems.
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NEPTECH
Reducing the Weight of a Bus Frame by 17%
Lighter vehicles require less energy to move and can retain the required performance characteristics while making use of a lighter, smaller, less polluting engine. As part of its research activities, NEPTECH, an institution within Vietnam’s Department of Science and Technology, became involved in a development program for a local mass transportation vehicle manufacturer. The client wanted to explore new methods to reduce the weight of the vehicle in an effort to meet its fuel efficiency and cost targets.
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TPI Composites
Designing a Minimum Mass Composite Border Patrol Vehicle
Patrol vehicles operating between the US and Mexico borders are put through a punishing series of use conditions, far beyond what a normal off-road vehicle would be expected to withstand. As a result, the current vehicles used by the US border patrol last just six months before they are taken out of service. Materials specialists, TPI Composites was involved in a project to see if advanced materials could reduce the cost of ownership of a new prototype vehicle by reducing its weight and minimizing wear on its chassis.
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Iain Powell of Britax Discusses the Development of a Child Seat
Iain Powell, Advanced Engineering Manager at Britax, discusses how the company worked with Altair ProductDesign to reduce weight and improve crash performance of a child car seat.
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Alex Thomson Racing
Composite Optimization of a Racing Yacht Coach Roof
Alex Thomson Racing required a team of composite material design and manufacture specialists to bring their expertise to a number of areas of the IMOCA Open 60 yacht. A key component that required attention was the development and production of the yacht’s sliding coach roof. The coach roof is designed to offer Skipper, Alex Thomson protection from waves crashing over the deck while still allowing him to sail the boat to its full potential while remaining highly robust and lightweight.
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Phil Hall from Caterham Composites Discusses a Composite Optimization for a Racing Yacht
Phil Hall, Managing Director of Caterham Composites, discusses some of the challenges involved in the design and manufacture of carbon fiber composites for the automotive and aerospace markets. During the interview, Phil reveals details of a joint project conducted with Altair regarding the optimization of a composite coach roof for the Alex Thomson Racing Yacht.
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Ray Nicosia Gives an Overview of Simulation in the Automotive Industry with Altair
Automotive Design Consultant, Ray Nicosia, speaks about the challenges in the automotive industry and how simulation expertise from Altair can help car makers meet their cost and performance goals.
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Optimizing Vehicle Suspension Design
The design of a vehicle suspension, although often propelled by CAE, is both initiated and concluded subjectively on a proving ground. Translating the requirements of the market into targets that can drive simulation activity is just one step in the process. This webinar will present a holistic approach to the design and analysis of vehicle suspensions drawing on the latest CAE methods, industry experience and physical testing.
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Innovative Strategies In Automotive Industry
This webinar will discuss this broad topic and how new technologies can enable engineers create better cars and trucks. This is the first of a five part webinar series that will describe how Altair and HyperWorks can help companies address increasing vehicle complexity, regulatory and safety obligations and satisfy consumer requirements.
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Intelligent simulation technology delivering weight efficient vehicles
Presentation by Dr. Royston Jones, Altair ProductDesign
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Advanced NVH Simulation Techniques
From overall vehicle refinement to individual component development, noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) can differentiate a vehicle in the market and shape a customer's perception of the brand. This webinar will look at improving NVH characteristics throughout the product development process with the latest methods and tools creates a competitive advantage.
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HyperWorks 11.0 Rollout Webinar Series - Introduction to HyperWorks 11.0 (Release Overview)
Welcome to HyperWorks 11.0, the most comprehensive, open-architecture CAE solution in the industry. With this new release, HyperWorks further demonstrates its commitment to delivering the broadest CAE solution to the PLM market by adding new products and a rich set of functionality to the strong foundation of past releases. This brochure will highlight each of the HyperWorks 11.0 product’s new advancements and features.
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HyperWorks 11.0 Rollout Webinar Series - HyperWorks On-Demand
HyperWorks On-Demand (HWOD) is a High Performance Computing solution for design innovation in the Cloud. It leverages Altair’s patented licensing system, providing access to a selection of the HyperWorks products and a modern, scalable HPC infrastructure through a secure and efficient web based platform.
HyperWorks On-Demand finally brings software, platform and infrastructure as a service – SaaS, PaaS and IaaS – to the Altair customers within a single and intuitive solution.
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Modern FE Modeling of Aero-structures
See advanced FE modeling methods for Aerostructures that will allow you to minimize the time to create FE models so you can spend your time to running models and reviewing results. Learn about geometry clean-up and preparation, advanced meshing tools including batch meshing, powerful post-processing and report generation.
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TK Mattingly Discusses Water Landing Simulation of the NASA Orion Crew Module
T.K. Mattingly, former Apollo Astronaut and Director of Space Enterprise for Systems Planing and Analysis, reveals how he worked with Altair ProductDesign to simulate the water landing of the NASA Orion Crew Module.
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Unilever - An Advanced Method for Optimizing Packaging Design
Consumer product packaging designers are faced with conflicting requirements throughout the development process. Good pack aesthetics are vital for the success of the product, whilst unit costs must be minimized and suitability for stacking and transportation maintained. This paper describes, by example, how design optimization technology can be used to enhance the design process.
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Mabe
Improved Protection of White Goods through Packaging Optimization
For white goods manufacturer Mabe, the quality of the design and engineering of their home appliances is paramount. The products need to be highly robust as well as visually appealing but must also arrive with the customer in perfect condition. The appliances’ packaging must be equally well designed to protect from drops, impacts and other disruption events, but over-protecting the goods can result in significantly higher costs. The objectives of this project were to simulate the effect of the distribution environment events to a washer and dryer product and perform optimization to improve product protection while reducing material costs and weight.
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Automotive Weight Management Article
The automotive development process is still focused on objectives such as durability and crash safety, while weight is often limited to the very end of the design process. Through the establishment of the “Optimization Center” (OC) concept, Altair ProductDesign has developed an innovative design model combining performance features with weight reduction goals. This article describes the OC concept dealing with everything from the optimization of single components to an entire optimization process known as “CAE Weight Management”.
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Tallent Automotive
Customized Solutions to Reduce Chassis Mass by 25%
To meet the growing demands for lightweight, fuel efficient vehicles, Tallent Automotive required a more automated method to produce minimum mass sheet metal chassis components which took performance targets and manufacturing constraints into account.
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Overview of the Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Tank System Design Project
Regu Ramoo, Director of Engineering at Altair Productdesign explains the work conducted with with Prof. Lamb of the University of Michigan to improve the design of a LNG tank system. Altair ProductDesign developed an innovative central interconnecting system that simultaneously mitigated hydrostatic loads while keeping the sloshing to a minimum. This design improvement retains all the advantages of the originally conceived idea of confining the liquid in a series curved shells so as to ensure that the structure is primarily loaded in a membrane mode rather than in a bending mode.
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Overview of BUSolutions - The World's First Series Hybrid Hydraulic Bus
Tim Smith - Director of Design Engineering at Altair ProductDesign talks through the BUSolutions project, an initiative by Altair to create the World's first series hybrid hydraulic bus. The bus is designed to minimize cost of ownership and its lightweight design helps it achieve more than twice the fuel economy of a conventional bus platform.
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Daimler - Calculation of Optimal Damping Placement in a Vehicle Interior
One of the most difficult jobs of a NVH Analyst is to sift through a seemingly endless set of results and find the key conclusions that will improve a design. Different assumptions and different subsets of data can give very different conclusions. This paper compares acoustic results calculated for a Class 8 heavy duty truck cab to choose an optimal configuration of damping material. The design was evaluated for structure and air-borne inputs, but only structure-borne inputs are considered in this paper.
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NASA
A Safer Landing with Water Impact Analysis
Using Altair’s own HyperWorks virtual simulation suite, Altair ProductDesign built an accurate finite element model of the module from CAD data supplied by NASA, as well as a section of water and air which matched the conditions from the lake used during the physical tests. The effect on the module’s structure during impact was simulated to gauge how well the results correlated with the physical tests. The results showed excellent correlation between the simulation and physical tests, identifying areas where the model, input parameters and meshing methods could be improved to give a more accurate prediction of the event.
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Optimization Centers - A Systematic Deployment of Structural Optimization in Large Enterprises
An optimization center is a centralized structure within an OEM which allow for strategic execution of optimization within the product concept and development processes. This paper discusses how optimization centers work and can be created to fit requirements of different OEMs. Advantages of optimization centers are presented and examples are shown how optimization centers are used today to improve product development in the Aero and Auto industries.
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Ford Motor Company
Enhancing Manufacturing Productivity
Modern automotive vehicles use a large number of stamped sheet metal parts in their construction. Understanding the dynamic behavior of sheet metals during transfer from one die station to another becomes an urgent task in the tooling design phase to achieve optimum transfer motion, avoid high cost equipment damage and improve overall production uptime. To get a better understanding of this critical process and to improve the productivity of the tooling design and stamping process, Ford looked for external input to compliment its own internal experience and expertise.
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Gordon Murray Design
Overcoming the Challenges of Composite Design
Automotive manufacturers are utilizing lightweight materials as a method of minimizing mass and maximizing fuel economy. Automotive design company, Gordon Murray Design (GMD) believes that composite materials can play a much larger role in the manufacture of vehicles. To prove its case, the company has developed ‘iStream’, an efficient process for manufacturing low and high volume cars from lightweight material. To validate the iStream structure, GMD required an experienced simulation partner.
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Altair Product Design Optimization Centers
One of the most effective and cost-efficient ways for product development and manufacturing organizations to reduce product weight and cost is to implement optimization technology through the establishment of an Optimization Center. The Center operates as a focused ‘skill centre of excellence’ where a combination of client and Altair ProductDesign engineers collaborate to apply optimization technology to develop lightweight, performance optimized designs for a wide range of product components and structures. The Centre provides a focus and momentum to efficiently and strategically execute optimization on live programs resulting in lightweight, high performance products.
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Introduction to Optimization Centers
This presentation is given by Dr. Royston Jones, CTO of Altair ProductDesign. The talk gives an overview of optimization centers, an increasingly popular and highly effective method of integrating optimization technology into an existing product development program to drive performance and reduce product weight.
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Simulation Technology Delivering Weight Efficient Vehicles
This presentation by Dr. Royston Jones, CTO of Altair ProductDesign shows how simulation technology can be effectively utilized to drive down the weight of automotive vehicles in an effort to save cost and improve fuel efficiency. It was first presented at an Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) event in the UK.
Simulation Technology Delivering Weight Efficient Vehicles
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Design Optimization and Probabilistic Assessment of a Vented Airbag Landing System for the ExoMars Space Mission
This paper presents a methodology for overcoming these problems with reference to a vented airbag design for the ESA ExoMars mission. The approach utilises the Moving Least Squares Method (MLSM) to fit high quality approximations to multi-dimensional response surfaces from a relatively small number of FE analysis runs. This method is well-adapted to highly non-linear and ‘noisy’ response surfaces that are typical for this problem. The surrogate response surfaces were used to locate an optimum in the ‘design parameter space’ and to perform 10,000 sample point Monte Carlo runs in a probabilistic assessment of reliability due to varying landing conditions.
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Schlumberger - Design Optimization Applied to the Development of an Oilfield Bistable Expandable Sand Screen
This paper will cover the design, development, and testing of an expandable sand screen using bistable cell technology. In addition, the design and development of the proprietary expandable connection will be presented. The testing presented covers a wide range of structural integrity, expansion, sand retention, mudflow, and geomechanical tests performed on the screen, base pipe, and connection.
Schlumberger - Design Optimization Applied to the Development of an Oilfield Bistable Expandable Sand Screen
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Lightweight SUV Frame Design Development
The Lightweight SUV Frame project is a research initiative of the Department of Energy and the Auto/Steel Partnership (A/SP), designed and engineered by Altair Engineering, Troy, Mich., with the key objective to reduce the baseline frame structure’s mass by 25%. This Phase I study focused mainly on frame system performance and mass reduction. Cost considerations were not a driving factor for this Phase I design effort, however cost was monitored throughout. Analyses and advanced techniques for applying material, architecture and design were used to develop a non-traditional lightweight frame (Figure A). This new frame is 23% lighter than the baseline frame, while maintaining the baseline structural performance.
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Simulation Driven Structural Design in Ship Building
The traditional naval ship design process relies on limited design data on the major structural design drivers when making key decisions in the Concept and early Preliminary Design phase of a project. This largely subjective approach, albeit using the best engineering judgement, can result in inefficiency and sometimes even significant structural problems being locked-in from the start, with the consequence of increased weight and unnecessary complexity, as well as higher design and manufacture cost in the end product, compared with one where the design has been optimised. Simulation driven design acts to solve these problems by providing naval architects with a greater and more in-depth understanding of the design drivers at the concept phase, thus enabling more informed design decisions to be made at this critical stage.
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Mistuning of Bladed Disk Assemblies to Mitigate Resonance
Bladed disks are mistuned in general. Their forced vibration response at resonance can be much higher than the tuned blade response. The magnification of forced response over the tuned case can be understood by frequency split that takes place and modal distortion. In this paper, modal distortion technique is adopted to minimize the mistuning effects and control resonant response.
Mistuning of Bladed Disk Assemblies to Mitigate Resonance
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Analytical Estimation of Microslip Damping in Bladed-Disks
Most usually damping in a blade is attributed to material and friction damping. Friction damping can be either due to Macroslip obeying Coulomb laws of friction or Microslip (also called Fretting Fatigue) which occurs at high critical speeds with tight blade-disk junctions due to heavy centrifugal loads. This paper is concerned with microslip damping which is conventionally determined through tests.
Analytical Estimation of Microslip Damping in Bladed-Disks
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A Procedure to Predict Influence of Acceleration and Damping of Blades Passing Through Critical Speeds on Fatigue Life
Turbine Blades suffer fatigue damage when they cross over a critical speed during start up and shut down conditions. The stress response is usually determined from quasi-steady analysis through resonance with an assumed damping. This response above fatigue limit can be divided into several steps to reach the peak value at critical speed and then fall after passing the critical. For a given acceleration of the rotor, one can then determine the number of cycles at each of these stress levels and assess cumulative damage for one crossing. In this paper, the effect of acceleration and damping on the magnitude of peak stress and where it occurs in the vicinity of critical speed is included in determining the damage suffered by a blade while passing through the critical speed.
Procedure to Predict Influence of Acceleration and Damping of Blades Passing Through Critical Speeds on Fatigue Life
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Rotorcraft Design Takes Flight
Optimization tools enable Boeing to balance form and function in the development of advanced aircraft.
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Scania
Reducing the Development Cycle with Assembly Automation
European based heavy vehicles manufacturer, Scania, is known for its ability to deliver highly customized products. This concept creates a significant challenge for computer aided engineering (CAE) departments, as engineers must rapidly verify a number of different variants with finite element simulations. Therefore, automating the entire virtual model assembly process was a major goal for Scania. The process, which included tasks such as positioning hundreds of components, creating contact definitions and building part connections with pre-strained bolts, was time consuming and prone to error.
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Jaguar Land Rover
Designing Safer Vehicles through Robustness Analysis
Luxury vehicle manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, design high performance passenger cars sold throughout the world. The vehicles contain a great range of systems to protect the passengers in the event of a crash. The knee bolster is one such system designed to absorb the impact of the passengers’ knees on the car’s interior. The design represents a complex problem due to the wide range of variables involved such as different sized occupants, impact locations, material variation and manufacturing variation.
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Midwest Bus Corp
Innovative Bike Rack Development
Midwest Bus became aware of an opportunity to provide a large number of bike racks for transit busses to the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). The racks had to be heavy-duty, durable and withstand the forces of the daily bus commute as well as the stresses associated with operating in some rough street conditions. In addition, the racks had to be easy to use, enabling riders to quickly store and retrieve their bikes. More importantly, the design of the bike racks could not infringe on the competitor's patent.
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Force Protection
Maximizing Military Vehicle Payload
Force Protection, Inc. (FPI) is a rapidly-growing South Carolina company that created a new species of military vehicle: the Buffalo. The Buffalo is a large and intimidating vehicle originally built on a Mack truck chassis. Its job is clearing out land mines and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). This pioneering design, with a V shaped monohull designed to deflect blast away from personnel inside, quickly became the favorite of U.S. Army combat engineer teams. FPI required a development partner to help drive the design of new MRAP (Mine Resistant, Ambush Protected) vehicles.
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Altair Product Design Composite Materials
The design of composite structures involves the definition of the ply angles, numbers of plies, and stacking sequence for the given laminate. Given the large number of potential variables, designs are usually limited to standard sets of design configurations based on experience and available test data. There is potential for laminated composite structures that have increased performance and reduced weight by utilizing mathematical optimization methods that can find the best combination of variables for a given application. Altair HyperWorks technology combined with Altair ProductDesign expertise can help your organization design composite structures efficiently whether you are designing a new component or converting a metal part to a composite design.
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Altair Product Design Aircraft Interiors
While much attention is paid to the “look and feel” of an aircraft interior, the main purpose is to provide convenience and safety to the passenger. The overhead bins should be easy to access and close securely, seats should operate efficiently while keeping the passenger secure, and the doors and exits should perform their function in all conditions. Altair Engineering’s technology coupled with Altair ProductDesign expertise has helped many companies improve the performance, reduce the weight, and increase the safety of aircraft interior systems.
Design of Aircraft Interiors
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The Application of a New Tank Containment System to ULTRA-Large LNG Carriers
ULTRA-large LNG Carriers introduce a number of unique problems because of their size, such as liquid sloshing and the requirement that they must stay within the current draft restriction of 12.2 m even as their deadweight doubles. This means that their length, beam and/or block coefficient must be increased more than for ships without draft restrictions. It also suggests that because of the draft restriction there may be a practical size limit for LNG Carriers. This also impacts efficient propulsion, building, and operating costs. Another somewhat lesser problem is the significant increase in the above water profile area. The paper examines the size problem and reports on the benefits of the Cubic Doughnut tank containment system on the supporting ship design.
Application of a New Tank Containment System to ULTRA-Large LNG Carriers
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A New Concept for CNG Carriers and Floating CNG/Oil Processing and Storage Offshore Platforms
The collection and transportation of Natural Gas from small gas fields is the current focus of the Offshore Gas industry. To transport the gas from the field to the land distribution point there are two choices LNG or CNG. For the small fields and/or short transportation distance it appears that the best solution is CNG. The paper describes the application of a new containment tank system that has significant benefits for CNG carriers as well as Floating Oil/CNG Processing and Storage Offshore Platforms (FOCNGPSO) and Floating CNG Processing and Storage Offshore Platforms (FCNGPSO). Because of the shape of the CDTS advanced structural analysis is required to design it.
A New Concept for CNG Carriers and Floating CNG/Oil Processing and Storage Offshore Platforms
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Optimization of a Planing Hull Structure
This paper describes a method for optimizing hull structure design based on desired performance characteristics and expected operator maneuvering profiles. The dynamic and transient nature of hydrodynamic slamming poses a challenge in defining the hull loads a planing watercraft must be designed for. Varying wave periodicity, amplitude, and impact incidence angle compounded with disparate driver habits exacerbate the difficulties of developing designs loads. In-lieu of this, many high speed watercraft manufacturers resort to using a combination of classification society methods and semi-empirical testing to develop hull loads.
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Interview with Richard Slade on the EADS Astrium ExoMars Project
This interview with Richard Slade from EADS Astrium gives an insight into the ExoMars Space exploration project. Richard discusses the goals of the project and some of the engineering challenges faced when designing the landing systems for the Rover. Details of Altair ProductDesign's involvement in the program are also discussed.
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A New Generation of Lightweight Aircraft - A Practical Method to Meet the Composite Optimisation Challenge
The use of composite materials is growing rapidly due to their high stiffness and low weight and the ability to tailor their properties for given applications. In aerospace, composites are now being used on primary structures for commercial aircraft. Composites are also widely used for windmills, boats, construction, and sporting goods. Composites offer many advantages but the complexity of their design limits their usage and results in designs that do not take full advantage of the unique properties of these materials. Composites possess a high stiffness to weight ratio compared to most other materials such as metals and plastics. Therefore, for stiffness critical designs, you can get the desired stiffness with less weight.
A Practical Method to Meet the Composite Optimisation Challenge
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Medtronic - Step Change in Design: Exploring Sixty Stent Design Variations Overnight
The stent deployment process consists of multiple stages (e.g. crimping, springback, expansion etc.) which is highly non-linear inducing material plasticity and load transfer via component contact. A single structural verification assessment would require a couple of days to compute on a PC. This paper investigates how recent developments in Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) and computer hardware combine to facilitate the rapid exploration of many stent design variations. It is demonstrated that by utilising these technologies, over sixty stent design variables can be assessed overnight provides valuable design sensitivity information and an optimum stent geometry configuration. On an example baseline geometry considered the radial stiffness was significantly enhanced with an improvement in structural performance.
Medtronic - Step Change in Design: Exploring Sixty Stent Design Variations Overnight
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Crew Module Water Landing Simulation Methods Development for NASA
The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) aims to establish a clear understanding of the specific modeling methods needed to perform dynamic simulations of the Orion Crew Module water landings. Specifically, the work seeks to determine the critical simulation variables, methods and physical testing needed to create an accurate computer simulation FEA model. With an accurate FEA model, accelerations, loads and trajectories can be used to evaluate and develop astronaut safety systems during water landing as well as predict the structural stability of the Crew Module structure itself.
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Spirit AeroSystems Discuss the Role of Optimization in the Aerospace Industry
Chris Wilkinson, Engineering Director at Spirit AeroSystems, discusses the current and future roles of design optimization in the aerospace industry with Altair ProductDesign.
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Gordon Murray Design Discuss the Future of Automotive Manufacturing & iStream
Dr Ralph Clague, Powertrain Systems Manager at Gordon Murray Design (GMD) speaks to Altair ProductDesign about the current challenges in the automotive industry and how their iStream process can deliver lighter, low cost electric vehicles. Altair ProductDesign has worked with GMD to analyse and test the safety performance of its iStream, composite material based vehicles.
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Optimization of Composite: Recent Advances and Application
Usage of fiber reinforced composite material entered an new era when leading aircraft OEMs took an unprecedented step to design and manufacture essentially full composite airframe for commercial airliners. Composite structures offer unmatched design potential as the laminate material properties can be tailored almost continuously throughout the structure. However, this increased design freedom also brings new challenges for the design process and software. In recent years the authors have developed a comprehensive framework for composite optimization, leading the design from concept to ply-book details.
Optimization of Composite: Recent Advances and Application
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Mabe - Using Computer Aided Engineering Processes in Packaging Design Development
Utilizing Computer Aided Engineering has been a useful tool at Mabe during the product design development process, and now this tool has been found to be beneficial in improving the packaging design and optimization of the product-packaging system as well. The objectives of this project were to employ computer modelling to simulate the effect of the distribution environment events to the product-packaging system at early stages of the product design development and perform optimization to improve product protection.
Mabe - Using Computer Aided Engineering Processes in Packaging Design Development
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Weight Optimization of Turbine Blades
Optimization of aircraft structures and engines for minimum weight has become important in the recent designs. Topology optimization of airframe structures, wings, and fuselage … is now practiced since last 3-4 years to reduce weight considerably in ribbed members, rotating structures in engines is of much more recent origin. Designers have been practicing to remove some material in the blade platform area by analysis. This weight removal can be optimized to obtain maximum reduction without compromising the structural integrity. This procedure is illustrated in this paper by using two optimization codes, Altair OptiStruct for linear structures and Altair HyperStudy for nonlinear structures using Ansys platform as the main solver. Using this procedure nearly 10% weight reduction is achieved.
Weight Optimization of Turbine Blades
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Floating LNG/CNG Processing and Storage Offshore Platforms Utilizing a New Tank Containment System
Current interest in Natural Gas offshore systems is focused on the Floating Oil/LNG Processing and Storage Offshore Platforms (FOLNGPSO) Floating LNG Processing and Storage Offshore Platforms (FLNGPSO, Floating Oil/CNG Processing and Storage Offshore Platforms (FOCNGPSO) Floating CNG Processing and Storage Offshore Platforms (FCNGPSO). A number have been built and many more are in design. A new tank containment system which has shown significant operation and acquisition cost benefits is even more beneficial to the FOGNGPSOs and FCNGPSOs especially its ability to withstand sloshing loads in partially filled LNG tanks. The paper reports on the benefits of the Cubic Dough-nut tank containment system on the supporting platform design especially its ability to operate with liquid levels in the tank from empty to full.
LNG/CNG Processing and Storage Offshore Platforms Utilizing a New Tank Containment System
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Unilever - Delivering Innovation and Intelligence in Product Design
Packaging designers must constantly inject innovations to attract consumers in a constantly evolving and highly competitive market. Keeping ahead of the competition by bringing new and exciting products to market faster whilst maintaining quality, presents a major engineering challenge. A new packaging development process is described, which introduces advanced automated simulation and optimization technology right from the concept development phase. Detailed predictions of primary, secondary and tertiary packaging performance are made possible through use of advanced simulation technology. Design optimization is then employed using the modelling as a virtual testing ground for design variants. The approach provides clear design direction, an opportunity for wider experimentation, helps to improve performance and reduces uncertainty in the development process.
Unilever - Delivering Innovation and Intelligence in Product Design
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Unilever - Design Development of a New Consumer Personal Care Product Pack Driven by Optimization
Packaging designers must constantly inject innovations to attract consumers in a constantly evolving and highly competitive market. Keeping ahead of the competition by bringing new and exciting products to market fast, and at the necessary level of quality, presents a major engineering challenge. A new deodorant pack development process is described, which introduces advanced simulation and optimization technology into the concept development phase. Detailed predictions of interacting parts in a mechanism assembly are made possible through use of advanced simulation technology. Design optimization is then employed using the modelling as a virtual testing ground for design variants. The approach provides clear design direction and helps to improve performance and reduce uncertainty in the development process.
Unilever - Design Development of a New Consumer Personal Care Product Pack Driven by Optimization
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Jaguar Land Rover - Signpost the Future: Simultaneous Robust and Design Optimization of a Knee Bolster
This paper introduces a practical process to simultaneously optimize the robustness of a design and its performance i.e. finds the plateau rather than the peak. The process is applied to two examples, firstly to a composite cantilever beam and then to the design of an automotive knee bolster system whereby the design is optimized to account for different sized occupants, impact locations, material variation and manufacturing variation.
Jaguar Land Rover - Signpost the Future: Simultaneous Robust and Design Optimization of a Knee Bolster
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Airbus - Application of Topology, Sizing and Shape Optimization Methods to Optimal Design of Aircraft Components
Topology optimisation has for a considerable time been applied successfully in the automotive industry, but still has not become a mainstream technology for the design of aircraft components. The explanation for this is partly to be sought in the larger problem sizes and in the often quite complicated support and loading conditions for aircraft components. Also, aircraft components are often stability designs and the compliance based topology optimisation method still lacks the ability to deal with any buckling criteria. The present paper considers the use of the compliance formulated topology optimisation method and detailed sizing/shape optimisation methods to the design of aircraft components but also discusses the difficulties in obtaining correct loading and boundary conditions for finite element based analysis/optimisation of components that are integral parts of a larger structure.
Airbus - Application of Topology, Sizing and Shape Optimization Methods to Optimal Design of Aircraft Components
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Bombardier Transportation - Fast Tracking Rail Vehicle Design
Bombardier Transportation UK offers one of the most comprehensive and diverse rail vehicle portfolios in the world. The strategy is one of continuous development that provides the most effective and cost-efficient rail solutions for today and the future. A key ingredient is the use of Altair HyperWorks enterprise computer aided engineering (CAE) solution. Altair's technology is now present at every stage of the design process and has increased the efficiency of the product development process. The paper details how Altair tools have been used to generate Finite Element (FE) models of carbodies, bogies and secondary structures in reduced time scales. Significant weight and cost savings are achieved through structural optimisation of components such as large steel castings, aluminium extrusions and steel fabricated structures which are subjected to linear static, fatigue and abuse loading. Automated post processing facilitates the interpretation of results and the writing of detailed official reports.
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ThyssenKrupp Tallent - Evolutionary Design in Chassis Technology
This paper details the use of the Thyssenkrupp eDICT process for the design of sheet metal chassis components. eDICT (evolutionary design in chassis technology) is an innovative structured process flow for the design of optimal structures. eDICT uses the optimisation capability of Optistruct with a set of custom tools to guide and translate a design into a production feasible sheet metal solution. Fundamentally it reverses the usual design loop of CAD first then CAE assessment. The function is used to determine the design and the form follows. On recent projects eDICT has produced 25% mass reductions compared to the current series design. eDICT is also able to reduce development times and resource with an efficient solution production right from the outset.
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SAIC Motor - The Application of Process Automation and Optimisation in the Rapid Development of New Passenger Vehicles
As a relatively young automotive company, SAIC Motor has drawn on the expertise of its UK Technical Centre to help in its objective to bring a new range of vehicles to market in an aggressive time frame. CAE has formed an integral part in doing this and the UK technical centre has worked closely with Altair Product Design amongst others to utilise its Engineers’ skills as well as the Hyperworks suite of software. The paper aims to showcase what has been achieved to date, on the Roewe 550 medium car programme - currently on sale in China - and on another current vehicle programme, where processes have been developed further. Several interesting optimisation examples are highlighted in the development of the body structure as well as some key process improvement methodologies which have been jointly developed between SAIC and Altair to streamline the design process.
SAIC Motor - The Application of Process Automation and Optimisation in the Rapid Development of New Passenger Vehicles
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AmSafe - Hawk T Mk2 - Arrestor Barrier (BAN MK2) Engagement Analysis
As the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) Design Authority for Aircraft Arrestor Barrier Nets, AmSafe products are used to stop aircraft from over-running the end of the runway. The British Arrestor Net (BAN) Mk2 is suspended across the runway over-run area by two electrically driven stanchions and raised or lowered by remote control from the Air Traffic Control tower. This paper describes the process and results of a FE analysis of the engagement of the Hawk T Mk2 aircraft into a Type A Barrier (BAN Mk2). The analysis was performed using RADIOSS, an advanced non-linear explicit Finite Element solver.
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Bombardier Transportation
Reducing Rail Vehicle Component Weight by 24%
As a market leader in rail vehicles design and manufacture, Bombardier Transportation needed a solution to develop the optimum structural design for vehicle components, taking weight, strength and durability into account. Although the existing designs were extremely successful, a more efficient design offered an opportunity to improve performance and enhance operator satisfaction.
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Heart Valve Analysis
Predicting Aortic Stenosis through Simulation
Aortic valve Stenosis is a heart value disorder that narrows the aortic valve opening due to calcium build up in the leaflets. This prevents the valve from opening properly and obstructs the flow of blood causing the heart to work harder. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) has the potential to allow researchers to study the condition without the need for traditional physical testing. An efficient process was required to make this possible since modeling tissue behavior, back pressure, and the interaction between tissue and blood are highly complex challenges. Altair ProductDesign led this self funded project to improve the simulation and analysis of heart condition research.
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Medtronic
Reducing Medical Stent Stress by 71%
Medtronic designs and manufacturers medical devices used the world over. Traditionally, computer aided engineering (CAE) and virtual simulation were not fully utilized within the industry as the verification process for often microscopic components was too slow. When designing a new medical stent (an expandable mesh inserted into a patient's artery to keep it open) Medtronic wanted to improve the design and speed up the validation process. Altair ProductDesign worked closely with Medtronic’s own engineers to optimize the performance of the new stent.
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SWATH International
Minimizing Hull Weight & Fabrication Cost
This 16 month study was funded by ONR and DARPA who created a consortium comprising of SWATH International, Altair and Bollinger Shipyards to evaluate a new, optimized design for a SWATH ferry. The project aimed to improve sea-keeping and reduce labor man-hours to fabricate the structure. Our team was specifically tasked to evaluate alternative structural configurations of hull construction and investigate opportunities to reduce cost of fabrication and assembly.
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LNG Carriers
Reducing Vessel Weight & Operating Costs
Liquid sloshing limits the carriage of LNG in large side to side membrane tanks to be either over 80% or less than 10% full to avoid damage to the tank lining and insulation. The Cubic Donut Tank System (CDT) was first patented by Prof. Thomas Lamb (Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Mich.) in 1976 and is less expensive to construct than spherical and membrane LNG tanks. Altair ProductDesign recognized the merits of the invention but noted that the patent in is original form faced several structural issues in regard to hydrostatic and sloshing loads.
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Samsung Heavy Industry
Reducing Manual Labour from 3 Days to 2 Hours
Altair ProductDesign’s engineers worked closely with Samsung Heavy Industries to automate the weld distortion analysis process, developing a semi-automated analysis setup system from within Altair’s own simulation suite, HyperWorks, that can generate and run models in a few hours. The system automatically creates the FEA model from the geometry and property information imported from the CAD model.
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Groupe Finot
Achieving a 100kg Weight Saving
The Fila features a hydraulic “canting” keel which plays a crucial role in sailboat racing. Its job is to re-right the boat when the wind tips the boat to one side – or even capsizes. When the boat lists to one side, there is more wetted surface area and friction as the boat cuts through the water, resulting in reduced speed. The canting keel, which rotates around the boat, increases the stability and speed of the boat by keeping it upright with the sails in the wind. The goal of the Altair ProductDesign team was to optimize the internal structure of the keel to reduce weight, lowering its center of gravity and attain maximum rigidity.
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Shanghai Automotive SAIC
Rapid Vehicle Development in Just 12 Months
The newly established SAIC UK technical centre (SMTC) worked closely with both the China and UK arms of Altair ProductDesign to utilize its engineers’ skills in vehicle development and analysis. Specifically, Altair ProductDesign was made responsible for the crash, NVH and durability performance of the Roewe 550.
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Volkswagen Shanghai
Streamlining Design Data Management
The Shanghai operation of automotive manufacturer, Volkswagen (VW), required a system which could automate many of the day to day data management tasks associated with their engineering projects, providing secure access while cutting down on manual searches and exporting of data.
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OPEL
Improving Design Productivity through Automation
OPEL identified the design process of engine mount systems as a candidate for a process automation solution. As an objective, NVH engineers had to be able to generate input decks even without detailed load case information. Knowledge had to be captured and re-used in a standardized workflow. Automatic optimization and robustness analysis of the mount parameters had to be integrated into the process to quickly improve final product quality.
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Volkswagen
Designing Lighter Vehicles with Composite Components
Lightweight design in automotive development means less material, lighter vehicles, and therefore less CO2 emissions Developments in material technology has allowed for the production and use of composites in many automotive components but until recently, these components were usually non load bearing and non safety related parts. A recent study at Volkswagen Group Research aimed to define a B-pillar from composite material and to develop a robust and efficient design approach to develop composite components with optimized performance and weight, at competitive manufacturing costs.
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Ford Motor Company
Award Winning Vehicle Styling
Altair ProductDesign in conjunction with its partner company, Thinklabs, was selected to work with Ford and its suppliers to create a new style concept and design and manufacture the exterior and interior of the vehicle in time for the competition. The deadline for the entire project was extremely short with the 'Ford STREET' vehicle arriving at Altair PD's development studio just six weeks before the SEMA event.
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Altair BUSolutions
Developing the World’s First Series Hydraulic Hybrid Bus
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) requires modern transit bus systems to provide more efficient services across America. Currently, U.S. public bus transit authorities are subsidized to meet operating budgets with State and local subsidies exceeding $19 billion per year and Federal subsidies exceed $7 billion per year. The goal of the BUSolutions project is to design and manufacturer a new bus with improved fuel economy, lower emissions and a lower life cycle cost than today’s buses.
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Unilever
Customized Solutions to Reduce Packaging Waste
With increasing pressures on all manufacturers to reduce the environmental impact of their products, consumer goods giant, Unilever, needed a way to minimize the material used in its packaging while ensuring that it remained strong enough to withstand transportation loads and a variety of use conditions.
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Unilever
Optimizing Packaging Designs & Reducing Prototype Costs
To remain at the forefront of innovation within the male grooming market, Unilever, constantly looks for ways to differentiate their products from competitor offerings. For the Lynx (Axe) brand, Unilever needed to adopt a simulation and analysis approach when designing a new deodorant packaging concept and required a development partner to assist with the design and testing of the new can.
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Toshiba
Reducing Development Time by 70%
Toshiba’s goal was to reduce the physical size of a new hard disk drive (HDD), while increasing the recording density of the disk. The HDD transfers data with the recording surface of the disk, using a chip approximately 1mm square called a magnetic head slider. The slider moves while keeping an approximately 10nm gap (flying height) above the disk, which is travelling at high speed. To increase the recording density of the HDD, the minimum flying height of the slider needs to be decreased.
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XEROX
Minimizing Printer Vibrations & Manufacturing Costs
Xerox collaborated with Altair ProductDesign to better understand the printer’s structural architecture and contributors to unwanted vibration. Firstly, Xerox conducted a series of physical tests on a prototype printer’s sub-systems using accelerometers at critical locations where vibrations were likely to be most severe. To drive the design process and enable rapid exploration of numerous design variables, Altair ProductDesign then used the test data to develop a high-fidelity analytical model of the printer, which included over 100 individual components
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Downhill Bike Development
A Simulation Driven Design Process for Downhill Bikes
The simulation driven design process enabled the engineers to develop a truly innovative Downhill Bike. The virtual prototype contains a Virtual Pivot Point (VPP) kinematic combined with a floating damper and by using the entire deflection the pedal kickback is only 15°. The bike has a perfect tire lifting curve in rearward direction, a final progression of the damper head line and is breaking neutral. The total weight of the bike’s frame remained below 4kg.
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Cleveland Golf
Maximising Club Performance & Aesthetics
The combination of shape and size optimization by Altair ProductDesign greatly enhanced the COR of the new club resulting in a golf ball that travels farther while maintaining a good golf head shape that remains consistent with club standards. By implementing virtual design concepts and optimization techniques in the concept design stage enabled the client to save development time and money in the downstream prototype build and test phases.
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Motorola
Reducing Analysis Cycle Time from 8 Weeks to 24 Hours
By working closely with Altair ProductDesign, Motorola’s engineers created an automated process template to find and correct these issues. The jointly developed “interference matrix” automatically shows modeling errors in a graphical format, allowing Motorola's analysts to quickly identify and resolve any design issues. The overall analysis cycle time was successfully reduced from eight weeks to just 24 hours with up to 90 percent time reduction achieved for model interference checking.
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CeramTec
Improving LED Lighting Heat Dissipation
Using Altair’s own HyperWorks simulation suite, an optimized ceramic heatsink was developed which took manufacturing and cost requirements into account. The optimized geometry allows operation of a 4W LED at a maximum temperature below 60°C which was validated against physical tests. The identical geometry in the more traditional aluminum with a PCB mounted LED showed significantly higher temperatures and increased stress on the LED than the ceramic alternative.
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EADS Astrium
Innovative Robustness Analysis on a Mars Lander Airbag
Altair ProductDesign was selected to optimize the airbag, assessing its design to maximize its performance and the chances of a successful landing. Using Altair's own HyperWorks virtual simulation tools, Altair ProductDesign studied the airbag's height, diameter, pressure and vent size and their influence on the craft as it impacts on Mars' surface. Due to the highly varied nature of the planet, the design needed to consider the effects of the craft landing on a variety of surfaces such as flat ground or rocky terrain, potentially under heavy wind and from numerous descent angles.
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Eurocopter
Reducing Composite Component Deflection Loads by 35%
Altair ProductDesign in conjunction with Eurocopter engineers, successfully improved the buckling load cases by 10% and the deflection at the end of the tailboom by more than 35% without any increase in the helicopters weight or impact on fuel efficiency. This optimization method for composite components will be further integrated into Eurocopter's design process, helping them to continue to design and manufacture the world's leading helicopters.
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AmSafe
Analysing Aircraft Barrier Nets to Improve Pilot Safety
The British Arrestor Net (BAN) Mk2 is suspended across the runway over-run area by two electrically driven stanchions and raised or lowered by remote control from the Air Traffic Control tower. The Hawk T Mk2 was selected as the new Advanced Jet Trainer for the UK armed forces. The aircraft features an extended nose and front mounted Smart Probes making it necessary to assess the performance of the AmSafe barrier nets with the new aircraft. AmSafe selected Altair ProductDesign to assist with this complex set of analysis challenges.
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Airbus
A380 Weight Reduction through Optimization
Through collaborative partnerships with Altair in the UK, the software was developed to produce an innovative rib design, which resulted in an optimized weight saving over 500kg per aircraft. Exceptional team working has been an essential component in ensuring the total integration of design, manufacturing and supply chain capabilities.
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Altair Product Design Developing Lightweight Products
Companies throughout industry are continuously looking to minimize the mass and weight of their products to reduce manufacturing costs while improving performance. Altair’s OptiStruct technology is a key enabler of the Altair ProductDesign process. This award-winning
software helps the team predict an optimal structure early in the program. As the design cycle advances, OptiStruct’s powerful shape and size optimization capabilities are applied to further improve performance.
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Altair Product Design Aerospace Weight Management
Altair ProductDesign is a product development partner to many of the world’s major aerospace manufacturers, providing support from facilities across the Americas, Europe and Asia. We work with our clients to create early concepts, develop robust designs, provide virtual and physical verification and refine their products for production.
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Altair Product Design Brochure
Our unique approach to product design includes an aggressive application of
simulation technology and automation from within the HyperWorks suite, with
a focus on weight efficiency through optimization. The result is a development
process with reduced risk and shorter cycle times, delivering products that
meet performance and mass targets, on time.
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Altair Product Design Staffing Overview
With the ability to deliver our solutions through a flexible business model, Altair ProductDesign Staffing Services include resources at onsite customer locations and resources at our low cost off-shore engineering centers. As a result of our model, APD Staffing Services has a proven record of assisting global clients accelerate their product development process and lower product development costs.
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Altair Product Design Services Overview
Altair ProductDesign is a global product development company with an integrated team of over 500 engineers and designers located in over 40 offices worldwide. Established in 1985 and working with over 1,000 clients worldwide, Altair ProductDesign supports a wide range of industries with engineering consulting and staffing services to help bring our clients’ products to market faster.
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Altair Product Design Results Overlay
Through software customization by our process automation team, results from multiple analysis jobs and even multiple solvers can be overlaid and compared directly with each other. This allows your engineers to identify results difference quickly and improve the efficiency of the overall product development process. These results can then be automatically exported to Microsoft PowerPoint or your personal tool of choice to produce project progress reports in a highly efficient manner.
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Altair Product Design Report Management
Highly customized process automation solutions can help to reduce manual labour for your engineers and let them concentrate on value added activities. A report management interface enables engineers to automatically structure their data, allowing for fast searching and filtering of hundreds or even thousands of related analysis results. Unique views can be created and customized for each group of users allowing access to the data they need, quickly and hassle free. Compare results and identify the ideal design or areas for attention with a minimum of user interaction.
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Altair Product Design Military Vehicles Overview
Altair ProductDesign leverages advanced design optimization technology and methods to dramatically improve vehicle payload and performance through weight reduction without compromising vehicle durability or protection. Our approach, leveraging Altair’s industry leading optimization technology OptiStruct, has been successfully applied to common and high performance material types – including composites, steels, aluminum and magnesium – and across multiple industries.
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Altair Product Design Meshing & Assembly
Meshing and assembly are key activities for the preparation of simulation models. The traditional manual methods are time consuming. With process automation the time for model preparation can be significantly compressed. Typical activities include direct interfacing to CAD, batch meshing, assembly accessing bill of materials input, automated part positioning, automated welding, fastener or screw preparation, creation of a quality model creation report and more. The outcome is a standardized and highly automated, documented process which produces repeatable results in industry leading timescales.
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Altair Product Design Full Vehicle Development Overview
Altair ProductDesign continues to demonstrate increasing opportunities to employ technology extensively throughout the vehicle program lifecycle. From global application for identifying design opportunities and trade-offs in the body structure, through local topology analysis to define lightweight component designs, as well as sensitivity analysis to identify the least-contributing panels across attribute load cases, the capabilities of Altair’s OptiStruct and Altair ProductDesign help ensure vehicle performance and timing targets are successfully met while minimizing cost.
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Altair Product Design Electric Vehicles Overview
For more than two decades, Altair ProductDesign has consulted with vehicle manufacturers around the world, from immersive design research through plant manufacturing support, to bring their products to market faster. As a full program partner, we have a strong history in successfully combining technology with subjective evaluation, objective benchmarking, design studies, target setting, and road loads analysis, as well as prototype build and engineering-release activities.
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Altair Product Design Concept Development Overview
End-customer wants can sometimes seem ill defined and emotive, but Altair ProductDesign has the experience to classify them into subjective ratings that are meaningful to quantify the relative characteristics of vehicles appealing to the program customer demographic. Instrumented objective testing at vehicle proving grounds brings increased clarity to engineering direction, which is then further informed by Altair ProductDesign laboratory testing at the vehicle, system and component level.
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Altair Product Design Commercial Vehicles Overview
Altair ProductDesign leverages advanced design-optimization technology and methods to dramatically improve vehicle payload and efficiency through weight reduction without compromising vehicle durability or performance. Our approach, leveraging Altair’s industry-leading optimization technology OptiStruct, has been successfully applied to common and high-performance material types – including composites, steels, aluminum and magnesium – and across multiple industries.
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Altair Product Design Chassis Development Overview
From the creation of early-program-phase quasi-static road loads with rigid body MBD models through to high fidelity flex-body simulations running over measured road profiles, Altair ProductDesign has the CAE ability to support the delivery of a durable chassis. In addition, extensive physical test experience – durability cycle definition, wheel-end data test management, instrumented component data test management, road-loads data analysis and lab component validation – ensures efficiency and correlation.
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Altair Product Design Automotive Weight Management
Too often weight is improved undesirably as a post-launch development initiative or realized through performance degradation late in the program cycle. The Altair ProductDesign process considers weight as a primary attribute from program inception, tracked throughout the design phases. By considering weight in multi-attribute optimizations, mass targets are met. Attribute performance screening, early global structural studies and local component optimizations are a few of the techniques that are employed.
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Altair Product Design Automotive Program Partner
Altair ProductDesign works with our customers to create early concepts, develop robust designs, provide virtual and physical verification, and refine their vehicles for production. Our cross-functional team has broad experience, from high-volume production programs to niche vehicle creation, from lightweight off-road utility vehicles to heavy trucks. The Altair ProductDesign approach includes an aggressive application of technology and automation, with a focus on weight efficiency. The result is a development process with reduced risk and shorter cycle times, delivering a product that meets functional attribute and mass targets, on time.
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Altair Product Design Automated Reporting Overview
Automated reporting can significantly decrease the time taken for result processing by reducing the amount of manual input required to produce project progress reports. Through software customization by our process automation team, standard processes can be automated, cutting down on the monotonous image and data extraction tasks. It starts with the extraction of the required results data and ends with a complete report, ready to present within Microsoft PowerPoint or your personal tool of choice.
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HyperWorks 11.0 Rollout Webinar Series - Extrusion Simulation (HyperXtrude®)
This new version of HyperXtrude brings significant improvements and advancements to the user experience, graphical user interface, core functionality and solver capabilities.
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Altair Product Design Meshing & Assembly
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Altair Product Design Report Management
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Altair Product Design Results Overlay
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Altair Product Design Automated Reporting Overview
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Altair Product Design Services Overview
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Altair Product Design Staffing Overview
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Altair Product Design Brochure
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Multi-disciplinary Optimization of Aero-structures
Learn about how HyperWorks can be used to perform multi-disciplinary analysis and optimization involving structural, thermal, dynamic, and fluid analysis.
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Innovative Solutions for Bird Strike, Ditching and Impact
Learn about how RADIOSS can be used to model aerospace impact events including bird strike and ditching. Explore different modeling techniques and examples.
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Composites Analysis and Optimization
This webinar explores and demonstrates the comprehensive capabilities of HyperWorks to analyze, design, and optimize composite laminated composite structures.
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HyperWorks 11.0 Rollout Webinar Series - Studies & Math Modeling (HyperStudy® & HyperMath®)
The webinar is intended to update the customers on the latest features in HyperWorks v11. Since HyperMath is a relatively new product in HyperWorks suite, this webinar will also serve as a launch pad to inform customers about the product capabilities and outline HyperMath benefits.
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HyperWorks 11.0 Rollout Webinar Series - Solver Solutions (RADIOSS)
This groundbreaking release allows customers to use material and geometric non-linear implicit analysis functionality in RADIOSS. Also, many new linear analysis types are added like complex eigenvalue, response spectrum, and powerflow analysis. In addition, many extensions to the already existing analysis types are added such as acoustic sources and damping, pre-stressed normal modes, and static element deformation.
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HyperWorks 11.0 Rollout Webinar Series - Post-Processing (HyperView/HyperGraph)
The release of HyperWorks 11.0 brings a new look and feel
to HyperView and a direct integration with HyperMesh for FE
pre-processing that extends the suite of capabilities while making
it easier to learn and use.
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HyperWorks 11.0 Rollout Webinar Series - New! Solver Solutions (AcuSolve®)
New to HyperWorks 11.0!
AcuSolve is a leading, general purpose, finite-element based Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) flow solver with superior robustness, speed and accuracy. AcuSolve can be used by designers and research engineers with all levels of expertise to quickly obtain quality solutions without iterating on solution procedures or worrying about mesh quality topology. It can easily solve the largest and most complex mission critical industrial problems.
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HyperWorks 11.0 Rollout Webinar Series - FEA Modeling - 1 (HyperMesh)
Part 1 - HyperMesh 11.0 offers many new features that will further improve and automate CAE processes including the integration of HyperMesh into the HyperWorks Desktop, composite modeling, updates to user interface and browsers, huge gains in geometry manipulation and editing, and continued advancement in meshing technology.
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HyperWorks 11.0 Rollout Webinar Series - Conceptual Design (solidThinking)
New to HyperWorks 11.0
solidThinking™ is a 3D industrial design and conceptual modeling tool that helps designers, architects and concept engineers create geometry easily, rapidly and cost-effectively. Model, render and share surface and solid models from individual parts to full CAE assemblies.
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HyperWorks 11.0 Rollout Webinar Series - Crash Modeling (HyperCrash®)
HyperCrash 11.0 contains many new capabilities and enhancements for the crash analyst to accurately support RADIOSS, manage LS-DYNA models, and improve the user environment.
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HyperWorks 11.0 Rollout Webinar Series - Sheet Metal Forming (HyperForm®)
Significant enhancements have been made to HyperForm functionality, usability and performance. Under HyperForm Die Module, an object oriented and browser driven process has been introduced and additional powerful features have been added to make the draw die development process simpler and more intuitive. Major improvements in the multi-stage stamping process setup have been accomplished by integrating it within the User Process browser.
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HyperWorks 11.0 Rollout Webinar Series - Concept Design and Optimization (OptiStruct®)
OptiStruct 11.0 further extends optimization functionality by expanding into the non-linear domain, adding full support of optimization disciplines for MBD, multi-start point optimization for better design space exploration, new manufacturing constraints for topology, improved handling of external responses and enhanced geometry recovery with OS Smooth.
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Improving Crash and Safety Performace - Presented by HyperWorks
Improving vehicle crash performance is a major challenge in the automobile industry today. Merely achieving regulatory compliance is no-longer competitive. This webinar will discuss how new advances in CAE can accelerate your processes.
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Increasing UAV Payload and Range Webinar
Review this free webinar to learn about Altair Engineering’s technology and expertise in reducing weight of Aerospace systems. Learn why some of the world’s leading aerospace companies including Boeing, Airbus, Eurocopter, General Electric, and ATK utilize Altair to help them design weight efficient structures. This informative webinar will outline the application of numerical optimization design techniques.
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Leveraging Innovation in Product Development
Use digital tools to accelerate product
and process innovation.
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Tracking the Trends That Drive Strategic Business Decisions
Keep key business and software trends in mind as you plan for the future.
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Fire Truck Design
Creativity and optimization technology extend fire-fighting capabilities.
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New Directions
Strategic simulation and data analytics are modeling innovation and managing risk for today’s top companies.
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Optimizing Aircraft Structures
Optimization technology and methods for the innovative design of efficient civilian and military aircraft.
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Effective Product Convergence through Visual Brainstorming
When trying to reach consensus in new product development, a picture (or two) is worth a thousand words.
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Putting Simulation Muscle Behind a Sporty Concept Car
Optimization technology delivers innovative suspension design for Alfa Romeo's sleek concept car.
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Smart Product Packaging Pays Off
Our experts examine the challenges, advancements and trends that are changing the product packaging industry.
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Increasing the Velocity of Product Development
Applying simulation technology to industrial design accelerates the generation of design concepts that are exciting, feasible, desirable and profitable.
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Spotlight Innovation, Not Just Evaluation
A new approach to simulation enables companies to drive innovation, not just simply evaluate it.
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Seeing Steel in a New Light
Advanced high-strength steels have emerged as one of the most sophisticated materials available for highly engineered product design.
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Thermal Management with Altair Product Design support: Ceramic simplifies Heat Dissipation within LEDs
LEDs suffer heat problems limiting their success as a light source. To improve the heat characteristics of LEDs much attention is given to the heatsink, less to the layers and barriers between LED and the heat dissipating surface. A change of concept and material, as carried out in a consulting project by Product Design, an Altair business unit, for CermTec AG shows how significant gains in thermal management and reliability as well as a simplified system can be reached. As shown in the consulting project, using ceramics as heatsink, circuit carrier and part of the product design opens the chance to overcome traditional patterns. A simulation process based on Computational Fluid Dynamics supports thermal optimization and technical product design. Within the following case study we will show how the new theoretical approach works, validate the concept and describe how improvements
with ceramic heatsinks can be achieved.
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CAVE Sets the Stage for Real-Time Collaboration
An immersive virtual environment speeds the creation of prototypes to cut time in military product development programs.
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