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Computational modeling and simulation, which uses computer-based mathematical techniques, is on the verge of revolutionizing the field of medical devices. Modeling techniques allow computer models to eliminate bad ideas and refine the good ones lo...

When making key decisions at the concept and preliminary design phases of a naval ship project, the designer is often obliged to work with limited data on the major structural design dri

Much more goes into a golf club than simply wood, iron and graphite. To shape the performance, the distinctive appearance, the personalized feel and even the sound of the club striking the ball, manufacturers must precisely engineer every aspect o...

Nexteer Automotive used Colfax’s “Try Before You Buy” cluster trial program to run an OptiStruct simulation for design optimization. Their job ran in just 30 minutes instead of 2-3 days.

The IT4I National Supercomputing Center uses PBS Professional to manage its new Bull cluster being shared by over 200 planned users. Center officials say PBS “provides the robust commercial functionality we need in a scheduler”

In partnering with PBS Works, MIMOS Berhad
brought onboard a strategic collaborator
committed to help its clients overcome
these limitations by deploying Altair's
PBS Professional®, the industry leading
commercial workload management and job
scheduling solution.

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

Race Face redesigned a bicycle crank using generative design and finite element analysis. The concept design process yielded a part with increased stiffness and strength without increasing the weight of the part.

In 2008 PWO Germany (Progress-Werk Oberkirch AG) had to develop and produce a new steel made automotive cross car beam (CCB) for the dash board of a new car. PWO received the CAD model, the design space definition and other pre-defined standards o...

The Weizmann Institute replaced Moab with PBS Professional to manage a 3,096-core HP cluster shared among hundreds of users. The transition process was easy, thanks to Altair’s excellent customer services and support. Now, the Institute enjoys hig...

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is a leading research university in biomedical sciences and bioengineering that provides students and faculty with outstanding opportunities for personal and professional growth.

The increasing number of bird-plane impacts gives rise to new CAE methods to address aircraft safety.

By Robert Yancey

To increase efficiency, improve the quality of meshing and shorten CAE simulation time, Lenovo engineers needed to own a powerful pre-processing tool, one that would really meet the demands of scientific research and engineering innovation. For th...

Wayne State University discusses their use of PBS Professional.

French manufacturer Sicma Aero Seat SA
relies on virtual dynamic testing in the
evaluation of its custom aircraft seats.

Optimization tools enable Boeing to balance form and function in the development of advanced aircraft.

Arup has determined the anticipated conditions throughout the interior of a complex architectural space through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling. In this video Caroline Lama, Façade Engineer at Arup NY, explains how HyperMesh has been u...

Computational electromagnetic software enables a team of researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center to develop wireless resonant sensors that can measure and mitigate lightning strike damage to composite aircraft.

By Beverly A. Beckert

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 manufac

Hollywood concept artist Ron Mendell converts sketches to fully rendered digital 3D models, incorporating real world materials, dimensions and constraints.

Faraone accelerates the design approach for lighter and stiffer architectural components with premium topology optimization technology.

With 30 teraflops of peak computing power, it has ranked as high as 135th among the Top 500 high performance computing centers. PBS Professional keeps CILEA’s processors humming.

As design exploration and optimization methods have become commonly accepted across a range of industries, such as aerospace,
automotive or oil and gas, they are frequently utilized as standard practice to efficiently produce designs and aid critical engineering decisions. The widespread acceptance

They began by drop-testing
a single component, then moved on to
a combination of several components,
an assembled product and a packaged product. At each step, the team employed Altair’s RADIOSS solver to calculate the drop-test impact.

Challenge: Development of design and optimization methods to improve components made with laser additive manufacturing methods.

Altair Solution: HyperWorks, OptiStruct, Simulation Driven Design Process

Benefits: increased material efficiency, lighter and stiffer structures, less user training

Award winning industrial designer Steve McGugan uses Altair Evolve to design and model a range of unique products.

Steady improvements in the OptiStruct solver platform over 20 years have enabled users to tackle increasingly complex design challenges. Now, OptiStruct in combination with 3D printing helps to achieve more efficient structural designs.

By Uwe Schramm

Presentation introducing a few of the top use cases for the time and frequency domain analysis software, ShipMo3D.

One of the world’s leading suppliers
of oilfield services, products, technology
and systems, Baker Hughes operates globally
with nearly 59,000 employees. The company,
headquartered in Houston, Texas, recently
recorded $21.4 billion in annual revenue
from sales of both services and highly
inno

F.S. Fehrer Automotive GmbH in Kitzingen is using the HyperWorks Suite to develop seat parts, form cushions and complete vehicle interior systems. The engineers use HyperWorks and especially RADIOSS for static and modal analysis. The seat of a veh...

Analysis and optimization to improve crash performance while reducing reliance on physical tests.

Alstom coupled topology optimization with additive manufacturing to explore the feasibility of alternate manufacturing to traditional casting. This resulted in a 70% weight reduction of its locomotive component.

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

The Hydraulic Systems Division of
Eaton’s Aerospace Group designs hydraulic
components and systems on many of the
world’s military and commercial aircraft
in the skies today. Eaton uses Altair HyperWorks within it's simulation processes to improve solution efficiency and accuracy.

PBS Professional is managing the DreamHPC cluster at Scuola Normale di Pisa, a 2600-core Dell cluster used for compute-intensive simulations requiring parallel efficiency, scalability and fast memory access.

Optimization technology and methods for the innovative design of efficient civilian and military aircraft.

In the limited space of a plane, a lot of radio equipment, especially antennas are installed, leading to concerns about antenna pattern distortion caused by the plane body and inter-antenna isolation.

COMAC, Shanghai Aircraft Design and Research Institute continues selecting FEKO to improve the

To carry out optimization on the pulley, Suzhou Samsung chose OptiStruct, a key
component of Altair’s HyperWorks suite of computer-aided engineering tools and a
modern structural analysis and optimization solver. “OptiStruct provided us with important optimization features,” said Mr. Cheng, “such

Industry
Engineering Service Provider

Challenge
Need to handle and monitor a very large variety of commercial software licenses and to optimize the software usage.

Altair Solution
License monitoring delivering information about the actual scope of software usage with Altair’s SAO solution,

Technology partners collaborate in style to deliver a specialty vehicle based on the Ford Focus platform.