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Extended Interview: Royal Enfield Discuss the Deployment of the Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance Learn More

Extended Interview: Royal Enfield Discuss the Deployment of the Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance

An extended interview with Royal Enfield, the world's oldest motorcycle brand in continuous production, as they discuss the deployment of the Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance. Rod Giles gives insight into the company's existing HPC infrastructure and explains why the fully managed Altair Applicance made sense for them.

Generative Design Gallery Learn More

Generative Design Gallery

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

Royal Enfield Discuss the Deployment of the Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance Learn More

Royal Enfield Discuss the Deployment of the Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance

Royal Enfield, the world's oldest motorcycle brand in continuous production, discuss the deployment of the Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance. Rod Giles gives insight into the company's existing HPC infrastructure and explains why the fully managed Altair Applicance made sense for them.

Stop Using Excel Before You Make an Expensive Error! Learn More

Stop Using Excel Before You Make an Expensive Error!

An engineer has an ethical duty to actively identify and minimize sources of risk. However, one significant source of risk is often ignored. That’s Microsoft Excel – a surprisingly common tool for engineering calculations. This webinar explores why Excel is such a popular calculation tool, and, on the flip-side, why you should stop using Excel for anything more than bookkeeping.

Using your CAD in MapleSim Learn More

Using your CAD in MapleSim

See how to import and work with your CAD model in MapleSim.

What Customers Are Saying About SimSolid Learn More

What Customers Are Saying About SimSolid

Users from CNH Industrial, Multimatic, and Plastic Omnium discuss the impact of Altair SimSolid on their work.

Taking into Account Magnet Demagnetization During Solving Process in Flux Learn More

Taking into Account Magnet Demagnetization During Solving Process in Flux

Taking magnet demagnetization phenomena into account during solving process offers more accuracy on typical quantities such as motor torque or electromotive force and new analysis like the evolution of the remanent flux density.

Flux Dedicated e-Motor Environment with Automated Tests Learn More

Flux Dedicated e-Motor Environment with Automated Tests

Discover the new Flux e-Machine Toolbox (FeMT) dedicated environment with automated tests.

InnAccel Leverages Altair AcuSolve for Developing Oral Hygiene Management System Learn More

InnAccel Leverages Altair AcuSolve for Developing Oral Hygiene Management System

A . Vijayrajan Founder and Chief Technical Officer, InnAccel talks of how simulation brings design differentiation in the medical device industry. His team speaks of the use of Altair AcuSolve solution for determining the pressure drop in the manifold of a medical device design used for oral hygiene in ICUs.

InnAccel Leverages Altair OptiStruct for Validating Fetal Monitoring System Learn More

InnAccel Leverages Altair OptiStruct for Validating Fetal Monitoring System

A . Vijayrajan Founder and Chief Technical Officer, InnAccel talks of how simulation brings design differentiation in the medical device industry. His team speaks of the use of Altair OptiStruct non-linear solution for designing snap fit of the device carrying case.

InnAccel Leverages Altair MotionSolve to Evaluate Nasal Body Removal Mechanism Learn More

InnAccel Leverages Altair MotionSolve to Evaluate Nasal Body Removal Mechanism

A . Vijayrajan Founder and Chief Technical Officer, InnAccel talks of how simulation brings design differentiation in the medical device industry. His team speaks of the use of Altair MotionSolve solution for designing a medical device mechanism for removal of nasal foreign body in children.

Fabric & Altair SimSolid Learn More

Fabric & Altair SimSolid

Fabric, the robotic micro-fulfillment centers Company, Leav Oz-Ari, discuss the challenges its engineering team meet and how the move to Altair SimSolid has cut its simulation time from hours to a just few minutes.

Virtual Design and Testing of a Medical Autoinjector, Project Overview Learn More

Virtual Design and Testing of a Medical Autoinjector, Project Overview

Nolato specializes in polymer-based product design and manufacturing to virtually design a device to automatically inject medicines, such as insulin for diabetic patients. Within this presentation different aspects of the product design cycle are considered, including co-simulations of the device operation during the actual injection process, misuse in case of forceful bending or opening of the loading tray, and drop tests of the autoinjector. Based on Altair’s optimization technology, alternatives for the rib structure of the casing are investigated. To assure manufacturability, molding and assembly simulations are performed to identify and mitigate problems likely to occur throughout the process.

Altair's Vision for Conceptual Design in Automotive Learn More

Altair's Vision for Conceptual Design in Automotive

Imagine being able to bridge the gap between aerodynamics and the design studio to understand the performance of vehicle design ideas as early as the sketch pad, using the skills and resources you already have in-house.

In this two-minute video Paul Steward discusses Altair’s vision for collaboration between the design studio and aerodynamics.

Airbus Helicopters Relies on Simulation to Develop Antennas Quickly and Efficiently Learn More

Airbus Helicopters Relies on Simulation to Develop Antennas Quickly and Efficiently

Hervé Dutruc, antenna and communication expert at Airbus Helicopters, highlights some of the challenges the company faces for antenna design and installation definition. Airbus Helicopters relies on Altair Feko simulations to support the increased of use of composite materials and growing frequency for communication systems.

The Increased Importance of BIW & Powertrain Integration in Electric Vehicle Development Learn More

The Increased Importance of BIW & Powertrain Integration in Electric Vehicle Development

Jamie Buchanan, UK Technical Director at Altair presents at the 2019 UK e-Mobility Seminar. Global Review of the EV Architecture. Integration Opportunities (e.g. Battery System Packaging, BIW / Battery Tray Integration)

The Multi Physics Optimization of an e-Motor Rotor Learn More

The Multi Physics Optimization of an e-Motor Rotor

Vincent Leconte, Director of Business Development - EM Solutions at Altair presents at the 2019 UK e-Mobility Seminar. Optimization of e-Motors, Case Studies: Jaguar Land Rover & Porsche. Cooling Simulation of the eMotors.

System Level Optimization of Key Electric Vehicle Powertrain Attributes Learn More

System Level Optimization of Key Electric Vehicle Powertrain Attributes

Gonçalo Pereira, Principal Applications Engineer at Altair presents at the 2019 UK e-Mobility Seminar. Trade-off Studies between Battery Pack, e-Motor, Range etc. System Model Generation to Explore Sensitivities.

CFD Simulation for Electric Vehicle Powertrain Development Learn More

CFD Simulation for Electric Vehicle Powertrain Development

Gareth Lee, Senior CFD Specialist at Altair presents at the 2019 UK e-Mobility Seminar. How multiphase SPH can support cooling and lubrication system development. Improving powertrain efficiency and thermal management for better EV performance.

Driving NVH Development Through Collaborative CAE Simulation & Real-Time Subjective Feedback Learn More

Driving NVH Development Through Collaborative CAE Simulation & Real-Time Subjective Feedback

Peter Benzie, NVH Technical Specialist at Altair, Finn Kryger Nielsen, Business Development Manager at Brüel & Kjær and Dr. Michael Platten, Product Manager - NVH & Dynamics at Romax, present simulation coupling between e-motor, gears and vehicle BIW and discuss the NVH SQ Simulator – Driving Virtual NVH Test Sign-off.

Utilising the Natural Body Characteristics of EV Platforms to Maximise NVH Performance Learn More

Utilising the Natural Body Characteristics of EV Platforms to Maximise NVH Performance

Peter Benzie, NVH Technical Specialist at Altair presents at the UK e-Mobility Seminar 2019. Taking Advantage of Large Stiff, Heavy and Well Damped Battery System. Diagnose and Mitigate the EV modes that are Likely to Drive Response Issues.

Accelerating the Development of Highly Optimised EV Composite Structures through Multiscale Technology Learn More

Accelerating the Development of Highly Optimised EV Composite Structures through Multiscale Technology

James Eves, Team Manager at Altair presents at the UK e-Mobility seminar 2019. Multiscale methods to speed up the composite design process. Providing confidence in early design studies to improve the predictivity of final design evaluations.

The Challenges Associated with the Electrification of Motorsport Platforms Learn More

The Challenges Associated with the Electrification of Motorsport Platforms

Michael Gascoyne, CEO of MGI Technologies presents at the UK e-Mobility seminar 2019.

Address the Crashworthiness Challenges of Electric Vehicles using Simulation Learn More

Address the Crashworthiness Challenges of Electric Vehicles using Simulation

Peter Snape, Crash Technical Specialist at Altair presents at the UK e-Mobility seminar 2019. Developing a 5-star EV (eg. Specific Legislation FMVSS305). Exploiting Crashworthiness Opportunities of EV Architectures.

The C123 Process - A Rapid Simulation Process to Optimise the Weight & Performance Attributes of a BIW Structure Learn More

The C123 Process - A Rapid Simulation Process to Optimise the Weight & Performance Attributes of a BIW Structure

Dr. Stuart Bates, Concept Technical Specialist at Altair presents at the UK e-Mobility seminar 2019. Rapid Exploration of Packaging Alternatives e.g. Battery System Layout, Battery Frame / BIW Integration. Developing Balance Design (Weight vs Attribute Performance), Target Setting using Simulation.

Altair Inspire Studio Product Overview Learn More

Altair Inspire Studio Product Overview

Altair Inspire Studio is the new solution for innovative designers, architects, and digital artists to create, evaluate and visualize designs faster than ever before. With unrivaled flexibility and precision, its unique construction history feature along with multiple modeling techniques empowers users throughout the creative process.

Ideate, Design and Manufacture a 3D-printed Pen Learn More

Ideate, Design and Manufacture a 3D-printed Pen

A short workflow video illustrating the journey of a design idea, from the initial sketches to additive manufacturing, utilizing Altair Inspire Studio and Print3D. The final metal 3D-printing of the pen has been done in collaboration with SLM Solutions.

Design Exploration and Optimization of an Aluminum Profile Learn More

Design Exploration and Optimization of an Aluminum Profile

Faraone Srl - a company leader in designing and manufacturing "transparent architectures" - as been working with Altair to develop an optimization and design exploration workflow for their aluminum profiles. Profiles initially designed with Altair Inspire, are then passed to the new Design Explorer tool - included in Altair HyperWorks X - to further evaluate and refine the design.

Altair ConnectMe™ 2019 Learn More

Altair ConnectMe™ 2019

Altair ConnectMe™ 2019 is a very easy to use tool to launch Altair Products, receive update notifications and hear about the latest Altair news. With the 2019 version it now also manages Altair Partner Alliance products and products licensed by solidThinking Units. Highlights are the access to different versions of the same product and a direct access to the product help without the need to launch the product itself.

Radioss 2019/2019.1 Overview Learn More

Radioss 2019/2019.1 Overview

Watch this video to see the new features available in the Radioss 2019 and 2019.1 releases.

Maximize Productivity in SimSolid Learn More

Maximize Productivity in SimSolid

Getting started with SimSolid? View this video to see how you can get started and maximize your productivity with the tool.

Solid Modeling of a Mechanical Part Learn More

Solid Modeling of a Mechanical Part

A short workflow illustrating the power of solid modeling and editing in Inspire Studio, applied to a junction pipe with flanges.

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Create and Control NURBS Curves & Surfaces Learn More

Create and Control NURBS Curves & Surfaces

Utilize Non-uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS) curves and surfaces to accurately represent even the most complex shapes with flexibility and precision.

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e-Motor Concept Quick Design with Altair FluxMotor Learn More

e-Motor Concept Quick Design with Altair FluxMotor

Altair FluxMotor is a straightforward platform dedicated to the pre-design of electric rotating machines. It enables the designer to build a machine from standard or customized parts, add windings and materials to quickly run a selection of tests and easily compare the machine performance. In addition, they can predict the machine performance at one or more working points, and also for complete duty cycles. By coupling FluxMotor to Altair HyperStudy design exploration and optimization solution, Altair offers designers a unique process to optimize their motor concept at an early design stage. They can select and focus on the topologies that fulfill the main specifications before going further in their EM design with Altair Flux and perform Multiphysics analysis.

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Automated Tests and Reports with Altair FluxMotor Learn More

Automated Tests and Reports with Altair FluxMotor

Altair FluxMotor is a straightforward platform dedicated to the pre-design of electric rotating machines. It enables the designer to build a machine from standard or customized parts, add windings and materials to quickly run a selection of tests and easily compare the machine performance. In addition, they can predict the machine performance at one or more working points, and also for complete duty cycles. By coupling FluxMotor to Altair HyperStudy design exploration and optimization solution, Altair offers designers a unique process to optimize their motor concept at an early design stage. They can select and focus on the topologies that fulfill the main specifications before going further in their EM design with Altair Flux and perform Multiphysics analysis.

Discover Altair FluxMotor: Easy-to-Use Software Dedicated to e-Motor Concept Design Learn More

Discover Altair FluxMotor: Easy-to-Use Software Dedicated to e-Motor Concept Design

Altair FluxMotor is a straightforward platform dedicated to the pre-design of electric rotating machines. It enables the designer to build a machine from standard or customized parts, add windings and materials to quickly run a selection of tests and easily compare the machine performance. In addition, they can predict the machine performance at one or more working points, and also for complete duty cycles. By coupling FluxMotor to Altair HyperStudy design exploration and optimization solution, Altair offers designers a unique process to optimize their motor concept at an early design stage. They can select and focus on the topologies that fulfill the main specifications before going further in their EM design with Altair Flux and perform Multiphysics analysis.

e-Motor Concept Optimization Coupling with Altair FluxMotor and Altair HyperStudy Learn More

e-Motor Concept Optimization Coupling with Altair FluxMotor and Altair HyperStudy

By coupling Altair FluxMotor for e-Motor concept design with Altair HyperStudy, more design exploration and optimization can be accomplished, while considering duty cycles.
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Use Freehand Sketches to Design a Chair with Inspire Studio Learn More

Use Freehand Sketches to Design a Chair with Inspire Studio

This Inspire Studio workflow video shows how freehand sketches can be easily imported in the software and used as the starting point to design a chair.

Constraint-based Technical Sketching in Inspire Studio Learn More

Constraint-based Technical Sketching in Inspire Studio

This Inspire Studio workflow video shows how 2D technical sketches can be leveraged to design parametric parts in a chair design.

Use PolyNURBS for Rapid Styling of a Vehicle Learn More

Use PolyNURBS for Rapid Styling of a Vehicle

This Inspire Studio workflow video shows how PolyNURBS technology can be used to easily and rapidly generate the initial body style of a vehicle.

Construction History in Inspire Studio Learn More

Construction History in Inspire Studio

This Inspire Studio Workflow video illustrates an example of how construction history can be leveraged to quickly apply modifications to an existent model, like changing the number of spokes in a bike wheel without rebuilding the model.

10 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do In Altair OptiStruct Learn More

10 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do In Altair OptiStruct

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

Multi-Disciplinary Evaluation Of Vehicle Platooning Scenarios Learn More

Multi-Disciplinary Evaluation Of Vehicle Platooning Scenarios

Presenter: Christian Kehrer, Business Development Manager, Altair

This presentation discusses the multi-disciplinary evaluation of truck platooning, with the lead truck sending out acceleration, braking and steering signals for the following trucks to react accordingly. The benefits address safety requirements, fuel savings, traffic capacity and convenience.

The presentation demonstrates why platooning requires a holistic approach in the sense of connecting different modeling and simulation methods for a virtual evaluation of this system of systems.

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Exoskeleton Modeling Using MotionSolve & Activate Learn More

Exoskeleton Modeling Using MotionSolve & Activate

Presenter: Nino Michniok, Mechanical Engineering Student, University of Kaiserslautern

The first part of the presentation shows the detailed process of building the multibody system of an actuated exoskeleton in MotionView/MotionSolve (MV/MS). The required movements are transferred to the corresponding joints by “Motions”. By this the exoskeleton can Stand Up, Walk diagonally across the floor and Sit Down. In the second part the “Motions” in MV/MS are replaced by controllers (position control) whichdeliver a certain torque to actuate the exoskeleton. The main topic here is the implementation of the co-simulation between Activate and MV/MS. In the end the presentation gives a quick outlook of similar works at the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern in Germany.

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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Controls Learn More

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Controls

Presenter: Dario Mangoni on behalf of Alessandro Tasora, Engineering Professor and Digital Dynamics Lab Leader, University of Parma

This presentation address the use of the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) deep reinforcement learning algorithm to train a Neural Network to control a robotic walker and a robotic arm in simulation. The Neural Network is trained to control the torque setpoints of motors in order to achieve an optimal goal.

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Vehicle Concept Design using Ride & Comfort Requirements for Truck & Trailer System Dynamics Learn More

Vehicle Concept Design using Ride & Comfort Requirements for Truck & Trailer System Dynamics

Presenter: Kaustubh Deshpande, Chassis Engineer, Nikola Motor Company

This presentation describes Nikola Motor’s progression of design maturity from 1D CAE to 3D CAD/CAE for chassis system engineering work on their electric trucks. This progression spans from Voice of Customer to Functional Requirements to Functional Deployment to Structural Deployment.

Nikola Motor starts with a ‘First Principles’ model of their truck/trailer vehicle dynamics, then they perform system modeling & simulation with Altair Activate using quarter- and half-truck/trailer models. Block diagrams are created using both signal-based blocks and physical-based blocks (with Modelica).

Through this methodical process, Nikola Motor is able to derive more and better insight earlier in their development process regarding important vehicle characteristics for their trucks – ranging from ‘yaw rate of the tractor for loaded vs. unloaded trailer’ to ‘full-trailer load distribution sensitivity due to fifth wheel location’.

Work is in-progress to tighten the connection between their 1D CAE simulations in Altair Activate™ and their 3D CAE multi-body dynamics simulations.

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Heavy Equipment Simulations: Multi-body, Hydraulics & DEM Learn More

Heavy Equipment Simulations: Multi-body, Hydraulics & DEM

Presenter: Ronald Kett, Technical Specialist, Altair

For a Stewart-Gough-Platform (Hexapod), various software tools were used to study and design highly dynamic hydraulic drives together with an overall system control. Calculation of Eigenfrequencies, control design and comparison, hydraulic system design, and overall simulation control were done in Altair Activate, the mechanics of the Stewart-Gough-Platform was taken from a CAD model into Altair Inspire Motion. The co-simulation between control + hydraulics and mechanics was performed using Activate and Altair MotionSolve. Altair HyperView and HyperGraph were used to analyze and visualize the results.

With the highly integrated solutions, the results could be achieved within a very short time. The different types of models (linear/simplified/full mechanics/hydraulics) made it possible to start with fast development cycles and finally achieve reliable results.

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Real-Time Simulator of a Mobile Crane Learn More

Real-Time Simulator of a Mobile Crane

Presenter: Arnold Free, Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder, CM Labs

Mechatronic systems and off-highway equipment design is rapidly evolving. With advanced control features, operator-assistance systems, and even full autonomy on the horizon, engineers are building complex systems simulation models to better understand their smart machines. Through the use of interactive and immersive VR software, systems models can be derived from high-fidelity engineering simulations and used for operator-in-the-loop, HIL, and SIL testing. Interactive virtual prototypes allow for human-factors test and measuring system performance in hyper-realistic virtual worksites. Simulation is also being used for AI based perception and motion planning in autonomous systems. Sales and marketing departments are now using interactive simulations and visualization to demonstrate products. The value of simulation is expanding rapidly in OEMs. CM Labs Simulations has recently partnered with Altair to bring together engineering simulation and interactive real-time systems models to perform all of the above. Validated multibody systems dynamics models from Altair MotionSolve can be used to build interactive models in Vortex Studio and combined with advanced real-time 3d graphics to create immersive live simulations with human interaction. With real-time simulation, it is also possible to connect to interactive control models and system level multidisciplinary simulations with Altair Activate. The presentation uses a mobile crane model as an example. It will demonstrate the process of translating the engineering models to real-time, creating realistic working scenarios and deploying in immersive simulators for operator in-the-loop testing and system demonstration.

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Quadcopters: From System Modeling to Real-Time Simulator Learn More

Quadcopters: From System Modeling to Real-Time Simulator

Presenter: John Straetmans, Computer Engineering Student, University of Michigan

This project attempts to build an accurate real-time (RT) drone simulator through the full integration of a 1D functional model of a drone created in Altair Activate®, along with its corresponding geometry, into Unreal Engine via the Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) standard. Then, VR, peripheral controllers, and other functionalities were added to the representation. This task was accomplished by modifying the Altair RT Vehicle Package, making it able to handle not just vehicles, but any system model located in an FMU for co-simulation, in this case a quadcopter model. Once the FMU containing the Altair Activate® drone model was successfully loaded into Unreal Engine, the tools provided by the application allow additional features to be added, such as VR support. By implementing an FMU, together with its geometry, into Unreal Engine, we can visually analyze the dynamics of the system to further verify the drone model and its performance. In the future, this integration process should be facilitated to automatically load any FMU following just a few steps.

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Modelica Library for Real-Time Car Simulator Learn More

Modelica Library for Real-Time Car Simulator

Presenter: Dario Mangoni, Engineering Professor, University of Parma

In the modern car industry, the advent of hybrid and electric vehicle systems is driving radical changes in the car electronics and software, demanding more and more advanced controlling techniques. Self-stopping, self-starting, ultimately self-driving cars are nowadays possible, because of the multitude of sensors, controller units and actuators making the vehicles “smart”. To simplify and make the interaction between the user and the machine more and more intuitive and user-friendly, a much broader and deeper investigation of different use scenario combined with the human interaction and intervention is critical. In this context, higher-detailed vehicle models are required to provide a valid prototyping tool which can be reliably used to test innovative controlling strategies, such as testing with the Man-In-the-Loop.

The Car Real-Time Modelica library proposed here aims at providing a highly valuable tool for the vehicle control system design and test. The key competitive advantages in this approach are in the Maple model-based compiler for supporting high-level of details modeling; the adoption of the Modelica language which allows a transparent and physical approach to the modeling activities and finally the Activate platform which offers real-time capabilities within an environment meant for the signal-based control design. To graphically validate the library results, a visualization framework for realistic real-time simulations that assures high-fidelity scenario in which to test user experience was also realized.

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Multi-body Enhancements & Customer Successes Learn More

Multi-body Enhancements & Customer Successes

Presenter: Rajiv Rampalli, Sr VP in HyperWorks Core Development team, Altair

Altair’s products for multi-body system simulation (MBS) – MotionView, MotionSolve, and Inspire Motion – form a key component of multi-disciplinary system simulations. In this presentation, we will look back on several achievements this year, in the form of customer successes as well as recent enhancements to these products which significantly extend the depth and breadth of capabilities.

Some of these application examples also involve connections from MBS to other Altair technology or to 3rd-party technology such as to Altair OptiStruct (for flexible bodies and light-weighting) and Altair Activate (for hydraulics) and EDEM (for discrete element modeling of bulk materials).

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System Simulation for HVAC Learn More

System Simulation for HVAC

Presenter: Christian Kehrer, Altair [on behalf of Oliver Höfert, Simulation Engineer at Kampmann]

The increasing virtualization of engineering methods is inevitable. This also holds true for the design of systems that take care for the thermal well-being of humans, e.g. in buildings. If it comes to simulation of so-called HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) systems, very often high fidelity approaches like CFD are connected to it. In contrary, this contribution illustrates a 1D modeling approach of a heat exchanger in use of Altair Activate.

The presentation explains the implementation of the NTU (Number of Transfer Units) method in a system simulation environment. This includes a short description of the approach itself as well as its current limits. Based on the implementation of a single cell, differing network configurations for the evaluation of use cases of varying complexity will be shown.

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ROMs For Battery Cooling Systems Learn More

ROMs For Battery Cooling Systems

Presenter: Stefano Benanti, R&D materials engineer, Hutchinson

Battery cooling (BC) systems are frequently composed of several parallel branches, each leading to and away from a series of cooling plates. As a correct flow distribution in each branch and overall pressure drop are a key requirement from every customer, numerical computation is extremely important from the first stages of each project: the number of components and their dimensions have a relevant impact on the total cost and it is thus necessary to quickly provide results already in the Request for Quotation (RFQ) phase.The 3D computation of such cases, albeit feasible, takes a relevant amount of time and makes it more costly (both in terms of computational power and of necessary software licenses) to quickly provide results. The goal is then to develop a quicker method to provide results and allow for the necessary optimization cycles.

Altair Activate® was chosen by Hutchinson to develop a library of ROMs representing different circuit components through which is possible to create 1D models able to respond quickly and precisely to such demands.

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Integrated Systems Simulation from Requirements Learn More

Integrated Systems Simulation from Requirements

Ed Wettlaufer, Technical Manager Mechatronics Group, Altair [on behalf of NAVAIR]

Government solicitations for proposals, or RFPs, for aircraft and airborne systems require preliminary designs with enough fidelity to accurately predict performance, in order to prove the design's ability to meet the Governments performance requirements. Modern high-performance computing provides the leverage to execute previously expensive analyses in areas such as computational fluid dynamics. The results of these high order analyses can be used to populate parameters in 1D systems models which can be easily coupled to medium order models from other disciplines. These capabilities allow the design engineer to rapidly iterate to levels of model maturity and accuracy not achievable years ago, resulting in high levels of confidence in the designs performance predictions in unprecedented time.

Moving forward, Altair engineers will employ Multiphysics and co-simulation to execute the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase (EMD) for one subsystem of the preliminary design developed in the afore mentioned pre-acquisition phase.

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Multi-Fidelity E-Motor Drive Solution Learn More

Multi-Fidelity E-Motor Drive Solution

Presenters: Ulrich Marl, Key Account Manager for Electric Vehicle Motor-Feedback Systems, Lenord+Bauer & Andy Dyer, MBD Sr Technical Specialist, Altair

This presentation shows a modeling process to quantify the position/speed sensor (e.g, encoder) effects on an e-motor, and corresponding control system for a concept traction motor similar to the Nissan Leaf. The integrated solution of the e-drive is carried in Altair Activate as a system builder, using other Altair solutions e-motor solutions in FluxMotor and Flux to generate data for the e-motor itself, as well as the optimal current values for the Field-Oriented Contoller. The inverter is driven with efficient space vector pulse width modulation. The integrated solution also supports different levels of modeling fidelity for the system components, for example for the e-motor where either direct co-simulation with Flux for detailed finite element analysis or a reduced order model (ROM) using look-up tables. In this way, sensor design parameters can be evaluated within an accurate system of the e-drive to improve performance and efficiency.

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Solving Challenges in Electric Motor Design Learn More

Solving Challenges in Electric Motor Design

Presenter: Berker Bilgin, Assistant Professor of Engineering (ECE) at McMaster University and co-founder of Enedym Inc.

Electric motors in general, are made of certain parts, such as the stator, rotor, coils and magnets, and mechanical parts. These parts might look simple and bulky from the outside, however, the highly interrelated relationship between the geometry of these parts, characteristics of materials, and the way the current is controlled, defines the cost, size, efficiency, performance, and lifetime of the motor. In electric motor design, multidisciplinary aspects are highly interrelated. The effect of various parameters on the electromagnetic, thermal, and structural performance should be investigated together to come up with an optimized design. This is possible by developing the platforms where the multidisciplinary aspects are modeled in a software environment, as we are doing with Altair software.

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Altair MBD: Celebrating Accomplishments, What's Next Learn More

Altair MBD: Celebrating Accomplishments, What's Next

Presenter: Michael Hoffmann, Sr Vice President of Math & Systems, Altair

In this presentation, Michael Hoffmann, Sr Vice President, shares the company’s vision & strategy for Altair’s Math & Systems tools for Model-Based Development – based on providing an open platform tightly connecting 0D to 1D to 3D modeling & simulation. At different stages of their product development cycles, engineers can model and simulate their increasingly complex products as multi-disciplinary systems by using equations, block diagrams, and/or 3D CAD geometry.
His scope includes Altair Compose™, Altair Activate™, Altair Embed™, and Altair MotionSolve™ as well as the multi-body motion capabilities in Altair Inspire™. He also spotlights several recent success stories about customers who have used these technologies to drive innovation through simulation.

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Internal Noise Simulation/Emulation Learn More

Internal Noise Simulation/Emulation

Presenters: Rafael Morais Cunha, CAE Engineer in NVH, FCA Group & Frederico Luiz de Carvalho Moura, NVH CAE Leader, FCA Group

To make the driving experience more comfortable for passengers inside a vehicle compartment, in an increasingly shorter development cycle, predictive methods for the acoustic response characterization are used by vehicle engineering teams. The main purpose is to estimate the sound field in the car cabin.

The FCA NVH team identified in Altair tools an excellent opportunity to develop a complete solution for acoustics simulation. Supported by the Altair technical team, new methodology was created to convert frequency domain analysis into actual sound waves. This method was used to study the NVH steady-state acoustic performances. And development is in progress to simulate an acoustic environment to reproduce all vehicle noises in operational condition.

Using this methodology, it’s possible to virtually understand the acoustic behavior of vehicles, helping to make decisions in early design stages which could save design cost, time and also improve the driving experience for passengers.

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Advanced Hystheresis Simulation Using Preisach Model - Altair Flux Learn More

Advanced Hystheresis Simulation Using Preisach Model - Altair Flux

Newly introduced in Altair Flux, the hysteresis modeling based on Preisach's model enables a better evaluation of iron losses and remanence effects. Flux captures the complexity of electromechanical equipment to optimize their performance, efficiency, dimensions, cost or weight with precision, bringing better innovation and value products to end users. Flux simulates magneto static, steady-state and transient conditions, along with electrical and thermal properties.

Taking Demagnetization Into Account - Altair Flux Learn More

Taking Demagnetization Into Account - Altair Flux

Demagnetization simulation: considering the magnet demagnetization phenomena during the solving process simulation enables very accurate predict the device performance, and measure the impact on EMF and torque for instance. Flux captures the complexity of electromechanical equipment to optimize their performance, efficiency, dimensions, cost or weight with precision, bringing better innovation and value products to end users. Flux simulates magneto static, steady-state and transient conditions, along with electrical and thermal properties.

Advanced e-Motor Design Dedicated Environment - Altair Flux FeMT Learn More

Advanced e-Motor Design Dedicated Environment - Altair Flux FeMT

Designing an e-Motor has never been a simple task. Altair Flux, the solution for accurate electromagnetic detailed design, not only enables to quickly generate 2D and 3D motor models with its Overlays. Its new module now produces efficiency maps and automatic reports in the same appreciated FluxMotor supportive environment. Flux captures the complexity of electric motors and electromechanical equipment to optimize their performance, efficiency, dimensions, cost or weight with precision, bringing better innovation and value products to end users. Flux simulates magneto static, steady-state and transient conditions, along with electrical and thermal properties.

New Features of Altair Flux Electromagnetic and Thermal Simulations Learn More

New Features of Altair Flux Electromagnetic and Thermal Simulations

Altair Flux captures the complexity of electromechanical equipment to optimize their performance, efficiency, dimensions, cost or weight with precision, bringing better innovation and value products to end users. Flux simulates magneto static, steady-state and transient conditions, along with electrical and thermal properties.

e-Motor Concept Optimization Coupling with Altair FluxMotor and Altair HyperStudy Learn More

e-Motor Concept Optimization Coupling with Altair FluxMotor and Altair HyperStudy

Designers starting with a blank page face an unlimited number of configurations and need to quickly select machines types. By coupling Altair FluxMotor to Altair HyperStudy design exploration and optimization solution, Altair offers designers a unique process to optimize their motor concept at an early design stage, defining their constraints and their objectives. A typical objective is to reach maximum global efficiency across a given duty cycle. Then, designers can select and focus on the topologies that fulfill the main specifications before going further in their design.

Model Export to Altair Flux Learn More

Model Export to Altair Flux

Once a designers has defined its motor concept in Altair FluxMotor and evaluated its global performance, he can perform more detailed analysis, exporting his machine in Altair Flux and working with high-fidelity models. Significantly, Flux enables more accurate prediction of motor behavior, with advanced losses computation, considering eccentricities, magnet demagnetization, effects of manufacturing process, and couple to Altair HyperWorks for multiphysics analysis.

e-Motors Comparison and Ranking with Altair FluxMotor Learn More

e-Motors Comparison and Ranking with Altair FluxMotor

Quickly design and optimize concept machines while offering efficient comparison capabilities, Altair FluxMotor enables designers to make informed early strategic choices to select the most appropriate topologies.

SimSolid Drives Down Analysis Time at Don-Bur Learn More

SimSolid Drives Down Analysis Time at Don-Bur

Truck trailer manufacturer, Don-Bur, discuss the challenges its engineering team was having with simulation in SolidWorks, and how a move to SimSolid has cut its simulation time from hours to a just few minutes.

Improving Performance Using FEKO and HyperStudy at Northrop Grumman Learn More

Improving Performance Using FEKO and HyperStudy at Northrop Grumman

Scott Burnside, Senior Antenna & RF Engineer at Northrop Grumman, explains how Altair Feko and HyperStudy can be combined to design and optimize antennas for land vehicles, helicopters, and aircrafts.

Midsurfacing and Meshing in HyperWorks X Learn More

Midsurfacing and Meshing in HyperWorks X

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

Hyperworks X: Morphing Examples on a Turbine Blade Learn More

Hyperworks X: Morphing Examples on a Turbine Blade

This brief demo shows the easy accessibility to morphing in HyperWorks X. Different examples are shown to explain, how to take advantage of Altair's morphing technology.

Hyperworks X: Design Space Management Learn More

Hyperworks X: Design Space Management

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

Geometry Generation and Morphing in HyperWorks X Learn More

Geometry Generation and Morphing in HyperWorks X

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

Evaluate the Largest Assemblies in Minutes with SimSolid Learn More

Evaluate the Largest Assemblies in Minutes with SimSolid

Moving stage for the Qintai Culture & Art Center in Wuhan, China.
The CAD assembly used for the analysis consisted of 7738 parts, including hundreds of bolts and welds. It required approx. one hour to import and setup the model, 30 minutes to solve the analysis on a regular laptop. SimSolid model created by: INNEO.

Image source: SBS Bühnentechnik GmbH

Dynamic Motion in Altair Inspire Learn More

Dynamic Motion in Altair Inspire

Altair Inspire includes a powerful and intuitive environment for investigating system motions of moving parts

Fit PolyNURBS in Altair Inspire Learn More

Fit PolyNURBS in Altair Inspire

The new Fit PolyNURBS feature allows you to automatically wrap optimization results with PolyNURBS. This option can be found on the optimization Shape Explorer.

Spot Welds in Altair Inspire Learn More

Spot Welds in Altair Inspire

With Altair Inspire you can easily create spot welds for sheet metal parts design

Altair Inspire Load Case Tables Learn More

Altair Inspire Load Case Tables

Easily organize and manage all boundary conditions with load case tables

Friction in Joints in Altair Inspire Learn More

Friction in Joints in Altair Inspire

Friction can now be considered in setting up dynamic motions

Suppress/Unsuppress Entities in Altair Inspire Learn More

Suppress/Unsuppress Entities in Altair Inspire

Joints, fasteners, and motion entities (for example, springs or motion contacts) can now be suppressed. This feature is useful for studying the effects of a given entity on system behavior or when debugging a model

Altair Inspire Overhang Shape Controls Learn More

Altair Inspire Overhang Shape Controls

Optimal lightweight designs can be defined in Altair Inspire taking in account several constraints for additive and traditional manufacturing processes, including the overhang angle for 3D printed parts.

Altair MotionSolve New Feature Overview Learn More

Altair MotionSolve New Feature Overview

View a high level overview of the new features available within MotionSolve 2019.

Durability & Comfort Simulations with MotionSolve Learn More

Durability & Comfort Simulations with MotionSolve

Our goal was to help engineers developing ground vehicles to determine fatigue life of components and improve driver comfort. Vehicle-specific simulation events have been added or streamlined to closely mimic standard physical tests performed in a lab (such as with N-post shakers) or on a test track.

MotionSolve Examples Library Learn More

MotionSolve Examples Library

The MotionSolve examples library has been added to provide users with resources to learn MotionSolve on real world type models.

General Machinery Solutions with MotionSolve Learn More

General Machinery Solutions with MotionSolve

Our goal was to help users more easily build and simulate complex systems. To this end, we have added a library of higher-level modeling elements including cables, pulleys, and winches; linear actuators, struts, & rods; as well as gears and cams – obviating the need for users to separately define parts, markers, and joints for these elements.

Generic Modeling Improvements with MotionSolve Learn More

Generic Modeling Improvements with MotionSolve

Many other enhancements in this release were designed to enable users to assemble and solve models to evaluate product behavior much faster, especially for vehicle simulations.

System Design Solutions with MotionSolve Learn More

System Design Solutions with MotionSolve

Much of the MotionSolve and MotionView multi-body modeling and simulation technology has been incorporated into Inspire Motion to enable system design closely tied to 3D CAD geometry.

Altair HyperStudy New Feature Overview Learn More

Altair HyperStudy New Feature Overview

View a high level overview of the new features available within HyperMesh 2019.

Altair HyperStudy Bubbles Plot Learn More

Altair HyperStudy Bubbles Plot

Bubble plots can be used to view additional information in a scatter plot window.

Altair HyperStudy FAST Fit Method and Lookup Model Type Learn More

Altair HyperStudy FAST Fit Method and Lookup Model Type

FAST automatically builds the best fitting functions. To accomplish this, HyperStudy is automatically testing all the methods available and their settings to figure out the most appropriate method to obtain the best quality fit for each approximated function.

Altair HyperStudy Model Linking Learn More

Altair HyperStudy Model Linking

Workflow and user interface changes have been made to the Model Resources dialog to streamline the experience by providing a clearer visual representation of the run’s directory structure. This will make setup and review more intuitive.

Altair HyperStudy System Reliability Optimization (SRO) Method Learn More

Altair HyperStudy System Reliability Optimization (SRO) Method

System Reliability Optimization (SRO) is a new, highly efficient reliability based design optimization (RBDO) method. This new method requires a reduced number of runs, and allows reliability constraints to be applied to not just the individual failure constraints but to the overall system reliability.

Altair HyperLife New Feature Overview Learn More

Altair HyperLife New Feature Overview

HyperLife is a new Fatigue application that is being released with version 2019. See an overview of this new product and the features it contains.

Altair HyperLife Execute the Fatigue Setup Learn More

Altair HyperLife Execute the Fatigue Setup

The Evaluate tool allows you to run the Fatigue Analysis, and subsequently load your results in the Results Explorer to visualize the Damage and Number of Cycles to Failure contour.

Altair HyperLife Creating Fatigue Events Learn More

Altair HyperLife Creating Fatigue Events

The Load Map tool serves as a typical Signal processing utility where you can import repetitive load history files. You can also create a simple constant amplitude or block loading cycles with a single click.

Altair HyperLife Fatigue Modules Selection Learn More

Altair HyperLife Fatigue Modules Selection

A collated icon enables you to choose the type of fatigue analysis to be run.

Altair HyperLife Material Assignment Learn More

Altair HyperLife Material Assignment

The Material tool allows you to create, store, and manage the Fatigue material property assigned to parts. This tool is preloaded with a library of Fatigue material properties, from which you can choose from. You can also load materials from your own database or create new materials in the session.

Altair HyperLife Stress Life Analysis Learn More

Altair HyperLife Stress Life Analysis

Uniaxial and Multiaxial assessment options with multiple Mean stress correction theories. Various stress combination methods are available for Uniaxial assessment. Critical plane implementation for Multiaxial assessment.

Altair HyperLife Seam Weld Fatigue Analysis Learn More

Altair HyperLife Seam Weld Fatigue Analysis

Structural stress method implementation for Seam welds idealized with plate or shell elements. The approach is based on VOLVO method. Supported weld type is FILLET weld and the weld lines (root and toe) are automatically identified.