altair.com/hyperworks 1 Solutions for Every Stage of Product Development Altair HyperWorks offers solutions for all engineers – from model- based systems design and early geometry ideation, to detailed multiphysics simulation and optimization. HyperWorks enables simulation driven design, with the physics-based design solutions to deliver the complex products your customers demand.

Industry Leading Optimization and Physics Workflows Altair has been the industry leader for generative design software for over two decades. HyperWorks optimizes structures, mechanisms, composites and additive manufactured parts. Regardless of how your product is produced, HyperWorks can enhance creativity by proposing designs that are as manufacturable as they are efficient and innovative.

Shared User Experience Your designers, engineers and CAE specialists can now work within a single intuitive and consistent user-experience. Each release of the HyperWorks platform provides more tools that deliver class-leading workflows employing this same user- interface.

Tools for Both Experts and Part Time Analysts The suite’s broad workflow implementations enable design engineers and part-time analysts to drive more of your product design with optimization. Simulation experts can draw upon the advanced features of HyperWorks including multiphysics simulations of interacting structural, mechanical, thermal, electromagnetic and fluid behavior.

Access to the Entire Suite HyperWorks provides value and flexibility through a patented, units-based licensing system. HyperWorks Units allow metered usage of our entire suite of products and an expanding library of Altair Partner Alliance solutions. We have revolutionized the way you obtain software by eliminating the hurdles that prevent you from getting the tools you need.

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Physics & Modeling & Simulation-Driven Cloud & Optimization Visualization Design HPC Solutions

06. OptiStruct 36. HyperMesh 50. SimSolid 70. SmartSight 08. Radioss 38. HyperView 52. FluxMotor 72. HyperWorks Unlimited 10. AcuSolve 40. HyperGraph 54. Inspire 74. PBS Works 12. nanoFluidX 42. HyperCrash 56. Inspire Cast 14. ultraFluidX 44. SimLab 58. Inspire Form 16. Feko 46. MotionView 60. Inspire Extrude 18. WinProp 48. Virtual Wind 62. Activate 20. Flux Tunnel 64. Compose 22. ElectroFlo 66. Embed 24. Multiscale Designer 68. Evolve 26. ESAComp 28. HyperStudy 30. MotionSolve 32. Tailored Solutions 34. HyperLife

“HyperWorks offers our engineers the full potential of CAE in all of its bandwidth at a very competitive price; and, with the third-party products offered within the Altair Partner Alliance, the multidisciplinary portfolio offered by Altair is further increased.” – EADS Innovation Works 3 Deliver Exceptional Value – Direct Software Savings

Altair pioneered a patented units-based subscription licensing model for software and other digital content which has transformed the way our customers use software, delivering strong retention rates and revenue growth. Under a traditional software industry licensing model, customers license rights to use a particular application or a suite of applications, which are typically priced on a per CPU basis for a specified period of time. The Altair units-based subscription licensing model is different because it allows customers to license a pool of units for their organizations, providing individual users flexible access to our entire portfolio of software applications along with over 150 partner products. Under the Altair units-based model, customers acquire rights to use a “unit” for a specified period of time.

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Design, Modeling, Simulation-Driven of Things High-performance Physics Solvers Data Intelligence and Visualization Design (IoT)

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Units are held in a pool and drawn when a user runs any of the applications available under our licensing model, either Altair applications or third-party partner applications. When the user closes the application, the units are returned to the pool and become available for use by all users.

License a pool of units Use any time of day, When finished, units return to the pool for team use anywhere in the world for another team member to use

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“If we didn’t have Altair HyperWorks, our jobs would be much harder, and there would be a lot more guesswork involved without substance to back it up and solve so many of the potential issues we analyze.”– Unilever 4 Altair Partner Alliance – On Demand Access to Third Party Software Altair’s HyperWorks platform applies a revolutionary subscription-based licensing model in which customers use floating licenses to access a broad suite of Altair-developed, as well as third- party software applications on demand. The Altair Partner Alliance (APA) provides access to a broad spectrum of complementary software products using customers’ existing HyperWorks Units which can be used to download and use partner product applications. This constantly growing portfolio extends their simulation and design capabilities to help create better products faster. Customers benefit from unmatched flexibility and access, resulting in maximum software utilization, productivity and ROI.

Our Current Solution Library Includes:

• Additive Manufacturing • Collaboration and Automation • Composites • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) • Crash and Safety • Design • Durability • Dynamic Analysis • Electromagnetics • Human Modeling • Manufacturing • Material Management • Noise, Vibration & Harshness (NVH) • Project Management • Structural Analysis • System Level Design • Systems Simulation

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“We see Altair not only as a software supplier but as our reliable partner who proposes a complete software offering and who brings the expertise, as well as the associated technical support we need. Since we use our HyperWorks Units also for the Altair Partner Alliance tools, we are more efficient and more flexible on the licenses we own.” – SEGULA Technologies 5 Altair OptiStruct™ Optimization-enabled Structural Analysis

Altair OptiStruct is an industry proven, modern structural analysis solver for linear and nonlinear simulation under static and dynamic loadings. It is the most widely used solution for structural design and optimization in all industries. Altair OptiStruct helps designers and engineers analyze and optimize structures for performance characteristics such as strength, durability, and NVH, to rapidly develop innovative, lightweight, and structurally efficient designs.

Benefits development of innovative optimization technology with many first-to-market Product Highlights Fast and Accurate Solver Technology technologies such as stress and fatigue • Most Advanced Solver for NVH Analysis: based topology optimization, topology-driven • Full featured solver OptiStruct supports the most advanced design for 3D printed lattice structures, features and results output necessary for for nonlinear analysis and technologies to design and optimize efficient and insightful noise, vibration and • The most advanced solver advanced materials such as composites. harshness (NVH) analyses and diagnostics. for NVH analysis • Optimization-enabled Solutions: • Robust Solver for Nonlinear Analysis • Highly parallelized solver OptiStruct provides the most • 20-year legacy of award-winning and Powertrain Durability: OptiStruct has grown to support a comprehensive range of comprehensive library of performance structural optimization technology physics for powertrain analysis. This includes criteria and manufacturing constraints • Advanced laminated composite solutions for heat transfer, bolt and gasket allowing the needed flexibility to formulate optimization capability modeling, hype-realistic materials, and the widest range of optimization problems. efficient contact algorithms. • Highly Parallelized Solver: Through Capabilities methods such as domain decomposition, Integrated Fast and Large Scale Eigenvalue OptiStruct can be executed on hundreds of Solver: A built-in, standard feature of cores providing a high degree of scalability. OptiStruct in an Automated Multi-level Sub- • Seamless Integration Into Existing Processes: Integrated in Altair structuring Eigen Solver (AMSES) that can HyperWorks™, OptiStruct can help rapidly calculate thousands of modes with significantly reduce corporate spending millions of degrees of freedom. on competitive solver technology, while providing superior analysis workflows. Advanced NVH Analysis: OptiStruct provides Learn more: Award-Winning Optimization unique and advanced functionality for NVH altair.com/optistruct • Innovative Optimization Technology: analysis including one-step TPA (Transfer For over 20 years, OptiStruct has lead the Path Analysis), Powerflow analysis, model

6 Complete solution for powertrain durability Full-vehicle noise and vibration analysis Topology optimization for lattice structures

reduction techniques (CMS and CDS super This relieves users from the task of defining • Random response analysis elements), design sensitivities, and an ERP shape variables and allows for greater • Response spectrum analysis (Equivalent Radiated Power) design criterion flexibility for design improvements. • Direct and modal transient response analysis to optimize structures for NVH. Free-shape optimization is very effective • Preloading using nonlinear results for buckling, in reducing high-stress concentrations. frequency response, and transient analysis Creating Design Concepts • Rotor dynamics • Topology Optimization: OptiStruct Design and Optimization of Laminate • Coupled fluid-structure (NVH) analysis uses topology optimization to generate Composites: A unique 3-phase process • AMSES large scale eigenvalue solver innovative concept design proposals. has been implemented in OptiStruct to aid • Fast large scale modal solver (FASTFR) OptiStruct generates an optimal design in the design and optimization of laminate • Result output at peak response proposal based on a user-defined composites. The process is based on a frequencies (PEAKOUT) design space, performance targets, and natural and easy-to-use ply based modeling • One-step transfer path analysis (PFPATH) manufacturing constraints. Topology approach. This also facilitates incorporating • Radiated sound analysis optimization can be applied to 1D, 2D, various manufacturing constraints, such as • Frequency-dependent and poro-elastic and 3D design spaces. ply drop-off, specific to laminate composite material properties • Topography Optimization: For thin-walled design. Application of this process yields structures, beads or swages are often optimal ply shapes (phase 1), optimal number Powertrain Durability used as reinforcement features. For a of plies (phase 2), and the optimal ply • 1D and 3D bolt pretension given set of bead dimensions, OptiStruct's stacking sequence (phase 3). • Gasket modeling topography optimization technology will • Contact modeling and generate innovative design proposals with Design and Optimization of Additively contact-friendly elements the optimal bead pattern and location for Manufactured Lattice Structures: • Plasticity with hardening reinforcement to meet certain performance Lattice structures offer many desirable • Temperature dependent requirements. Typical applications include characteristics such as lightweight and good material properties panel stiffening and managing frequencies. thermal properties. They are also highly • Domain decomposition • Free-size Optimization: Free-size desirable in biomedical implants due to their optimization is widely applied in finding the porous nature and the ability to facilitate Heat Transfer Analysis optimal thickness distribution in machined the integration of tissue with the trabecular • Linear and nonlinear steady-state analysis metallic structures and identifying the structure. OptiStruct has a unique solution • Linear transient analysis optimal ply shapes in laminate composites. to design such lattice structures based on • Coupled thermo-mechanical analysis Element thickness per material layer is a topology optimization. Subsequently, large • One-step transient thermal stress analysis design variable in free-size optimization. scale sizing optimization studies can be run on • Contact-based thermal analysis the lattice beams while incorporating detailed Optimization for Design Fine-Tuning performance targets such as stress, buckling, Kinematics and Dynamics • Size Optimization: Optimal model displacement, and frequency. • Static, quasi-static, and dynamic analysis parameters such as material properties, • Loads extraction and effort estimation cross-sectional dimensions, and gauges can Analysis Feature Highlights • Optimization of system and flexible bodies be determined through size optimization. Stiffness, Strength, and Stability • Shape Optimization: Shape optimization Structural Optimization • Linear and nonlinear static and dynamic is performed to refine an existing design • Topology, topography, analysis with contact and plasticity through user-defined shape variables. and free-size optimization • Large displacement analysis with continuous The shape variables are generated using the • Size, shape, and free-shape optimization sliding and hyperelastic materials morphing technology – Altair HyperMorph™ • Design and optimization of laminate composites • Fast contact analysis – available in Altair HyperMesh™. • Design and optimization of additively • Buckling analysis manufactured lattice structures • Free-shape Optimization: OptiStruct’s • Equivalent static load method Noise and Vibrations proprietary technique for non-parametric • Normal modes analysis for real • Multi-model optimization shape optimization automatically generates and complex eigenvalue analysis shape variables and determines optimal • Direct and modal frequency shape contours based on design requirements. response analysis 7 Altair Radioss™ Crash, Safety & Impact

Altair Radioss is a leading structural analysis solver for non-linear problems under dynamic loadings. It is highly differentiated for scalability, quality, robustness, and consists of features for multiphysics simulation and advanced materials such as composites. Radioss is used across many industries worldwide to improve the crashworthiness, safety, and manufacturability of structural designs.

Benefits With Radioss’ multi-domain approach, detailed and accurate analysis can be Scalability, Quality and Robustness Product Highlights achieved with a significant elapsed time decrease. Radioss’ advanced multi-processor solution The model is split into different domains • Best scalability for large, highly (Hybrid Massively Parallel Processing) has which are computed with their own and non-linear structural simulations enabled the best scalability in the industry for adequate time step. Applications such as • Most complete material and large, highly non-linear structural simulation. rupture libraries detailed meshed parts in a global structure, Special provisions in the implementation • Unique feature for accurate and ditching (fluid and structure in different guarantee full repeatability of results airbag simulations domains) have big advantages with the regardless of the number of computer • Rich multiphysics capabilities Radioss multi-domain approach. • Wide offer of FE safety models, cores, nodes, or threads used in parallel computation. Numerical scattering of dummies, barriers, and impactors Industry Standard for Crash, Occupant results is highly minimized. Safety and Impact Analysis For over 30 years, Radioss has established The use of Advanced Mass Scaling (AMS) itself as a leader and an industry standard and intelligent single precision calculation for crash, safety and impact analysis. The option increases simulation speed by orders number of customers continues to increase of magnitudes while retaining the same at an impressive rate to include over 1,000 accurate results. AMS provides an advanced companies worldwide, with 40% of these and competitive solution for quasi-static customers in the automotive industry. problems, model with smaller mesh size locally. AMS is also an alternative to implicit non-linear Radioss is ranked with a 5-star worthy crash Learn more: simulation which has convergence problems code. Automotive and aerospace companies altair.com/radioss due to high non-linearity in the contacts, value the contribution Radioss makes complex material behaviors, or rupture modeling. 8 Bolt modeling with material failure FSI application: Steel casing and concrete wall under Extended finite element method (XFEM) explosion load (Fluid-structure Interaction) for simulation of glass damage

in understanding and predicting design The innovative Finite Volume Method enables Main Features behavior in complex environments such as full FSI simulation of airbags in full car • 3D shell and solid elements automotive and aerospace crash and impact models with accuracy and speed. • Rigid bodies, bar and beam, and advanced simulations. springs elements Optimization Ready • Contact interfaces for structural, fluid, Radioss has direct access to a large library of Integration with Altair HyperWorks makes and fluid structure interaction analysis finite element dummy, barrier, and impactor Altair Radioss a powerful design tool. • Large material library with different failure models to perform vehicle occupant Aside from modeling and visualization, safety simulation. It provides the most Altair Radioss models are ready for models (XFEM), equation of state, and comprehensive and high quality toolset optimization. Advanced design optimization thermal behavior in the industry through partnerships with and robustness studies can be performed • All kinds of boundary conditions (imposed leading crash and safety testing facilities easily through Altair’s OptiStruct™ and Altair motion, imposed force and pressure, and model providers. HyperStudy™ products to improve design initial state, …) performance. Altair Radioss’ high scalability, • Specific boundary conditions for fluids In addition, Altair’s HyperCrash is modeling quality and robustness are essential for (inlet, outlet, silent, …) environment provides outstanding support successful numerical optimization. • Finite Volume (FVM) based airbag for automotive crash and safety simulation simulation with reversible flow vent hole with Radioss. High Performance Computing • Sensors, element activation or de-activation With a sophisticated customer base that Most Comprehensive Material values performance, reliability, safety, and Safety Models and Rupture Libraries innovation, the Altair Radioss team is committed • Adult and child models for frontal, side, Radioss has the most comprehensive to supporting the most up-to-date, advanced material and rupture libraries with more and rear impact (developed with computing architectures and integrating than 300 combinations. A comprehensive Humanetics partnership) new technologies to improve performance, collection of linear and non-linear material, • Pedestrian impactors failure and rupture models is provided scalability, and usability. Altair Radioss is • Human dummy model for modeling complex events. Correlated leading the industry in understanding many • Frontal, side, and rear barriers material laws and failure criteria include of the state-of-art computing hardware’s (developed with CELLBOND partnership) definitions for concrete, foam, rubber, steel, potential for powering complex simulation • IIHS-RCAR Bumper Barrier composites, biomaterials, and more. Multiple software applications and environments. failure criteria may be applied to any material. Crack propagation can be followed using an Features and Capabilities Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) for Analysis Types multi-layer structures. • Non-linear explicit dynamic or implicit Advanced Multiphysics Simulation structural analysis Besides Lagrangian Finite Element technology, • Lagrangian, Eulerian, and Arbitrary Radioss also uses other technologies such Euler-Lagrangian (ALE) formulation as Euler, Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE), • Finite Volume (FVM) based airbag simulation Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), and the Finite Volume Method (FVM). Altair Radioss’ application areas include simulations of crash safety, drop and impact, With Euler, ALE, and SPH formulations, blast and hydrodynamic impact, fluid structural Radioss enables Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) interaction, terminal ballistics, hyper-velocity simulation taking into account multiple fluids. impact, forming, and composite mapping.

9 Altair AcuSolve™ Computational Fluid Dynamics

Altair AcuSolve is a most powerful Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tool, providing users with a full range of physical models. Simulations involving flow, heat transfer, turbulence, and non-Newtonian materials are handled with ease by AcuSolve’s robust and scalable solver technology. These well validated physical models are delivered with unmatched accuracy on fully unstructured meshes. This means less time spent building meshes and more time spent exploring your designs.

Benefits High Speed, Parallel Performance What really allows you to leverage CFD to Product Highlights AcuSolve was designed with a philosophy that you shouldn't have to sacrifice robustness its fullest extent is the ability to interrogate and convenience to achieve accurate results. multiple design candidates early on in the • Efficient and flexible workflow With AcuSolve, you aren't forced to spend design process. This requires a fast solution • Full set of physical models for flow, process, which Altair AcuSolve provides via: days or weeks iterating on mesh quality to turbulence, immiscible multiphase, • Solution of the fully-coupled pressure/ obtain a stable and accurate solution. Build and heat transfer simulations velocity equation system, yielding rapid your mesh, run the solver, and interrogate • Accurate and stable even on highly nonlinear convergence. the solution. skewed meshes • Efficient parallel architecture that provides • Fast and efficient solutions for both distributed, shared, and hybrid parallel operation. transient and steady-state simulations Advanced Physics? No problem! • Proven parallel scalability on thousands of • Parallel scalability demonstrated Have applications that challenge your current compute cores. on thousands of computing cores solver's capabilities? Eddy resolving turbulent • Advanced multiphysics capabilities simulations, immiscible multiphase, and fluid- Simulation Features including rigid body and flexible body structure interaction are a few such examples Flow Modeling coupling with Altair’s solvers as well that come to mind. AcuSolve's single solver AcuSolve's flow simulation capability as third party applications technology simplifies these simulations for you. focuses on incompressible and subsonic There's no need to struggle with differencing compressible flows. Within this class of schemes, time integration settings, CFL based problems, a full set of material models for stability limits, or any other solver setting when investigating Newtonian and non-Newtonian investigating complex physics with AcuSolve. flow fields is available. Specialized flow All supported flow regimes are handled by a models, such as Stokes flow, are also Learn more: single solver that doesn't require any tuning for available for applications in which the full altair.com/acusolve specific applications. Navier-Stokes equations are not needed.

10 Streamlines showing flow Flow patterns and velocity field Streamlines through a gas turbine patterns in a stirred tank in an SMX style mixer thermocouple cooling passage

Heat Transfer and Radiation Modeling moving and deforming meshes, non-conformal • Rigid body dynamics of Altair AcuSolve supports a full set of features interfaces, and Fluid-Structure Interaction. non-interacting bodies for analyzing heat transfer in both solid and There is no limit on the density ratio of the • Linear structural deformations fluid mediums. Supported features include: two fluids, enabling the simulation of air/ • Conjugate heat transfer water, oil/water, etc. Coupling to other products in the Altair • Natural convection HyperWorks suite provides the following • Enclosure radiation Moving Mesh Capabilities additional capabilities: • Solar radiation Altair AcuSolve supports two approaches • Finite mass particle tracing • Thermal shells for modeling thin solids for handling deforming meshes. An Arbitrary (coupling with AcuTrace) • Simplified heat exchanger models Lagrange Eulerian (ALE) mesh motion • Multi-body dynamics (coupling with Altair MotionSolve™) algorithm provides the most general solution • Non-linear structural deformations Turbulence Modeling for complex motions. Simpler motions are (coupling with Altair Radioss) Altair AcuSolve provides a complete selection accommodated by Altair AcuSolve’s boundary of turbulence modeling capabilities to fulfill condition tools that let you define how Pre-processing Features your simulation needs. the motion of a boundary surface should Altair AcuSolve's dedicated Graphical User propagate through the model. Interface, AcuConsole®, contains a full set of For higher resolution transient simulations, options to help you build your CFD models Altair AcuSolve supports the following models: User-Defined Functions (UDF) quickly and efficiently. HyperMesh contains • Spalart-Allmaras based Detached Eddy Altair AcuSolve permits customization of material a significant portion of the most frequently Simulation (DES and DDES) models, boundary conditions, source terms, and used commands for general usage of • SST based (DDES and Zonal DES) many other features within the solver by writing AcuSolve. SimLab provides users with access • Dynamic coefficient and fixed coefficient your own functions. In addition to the standard to basic flow and heat transfer simulations Large Eddy Simulation models set of data access functions within the UDF, Altair with the ability to prepare thermal fluid AcuSolve also provides client-server programming structure interaction simulations from a For simulations involving turbulent transition, capabilities. This allows you to couple your CFD single interface. Altair AcuSolve supports the following simulation with external applications such as transition models (compatible with Spalart- control system codes. Post-processing Features Allmaras and SST RANS/DES models): Post-processing of Altair AcuSolve results is • γ one-equation model Multiphysics Capabilities handled by AcuFieldView™, an OEM version • γ-Reθ two-equation model Altair AcuSolve's advantages for multiphysics of Intelligent Light's FieldView CFD post- computations result from its strength in processor. AcuFieldView allows you to post- Multiphase Modeling simulating transient flows and deforming process your Altair AcuSolve simulations Altair AcuSolve’s multiphase flow simulation meshes. Altair AcuSolve supports the using client-server based parallel operation capability enables the simulation of 2 immiscible, following multiphysics applications without and comes equipped with a full set of tools incompressible fluids. The multiphase capability coupling to external codes: to automate the interrogation of your solution. can be used with heat transfer, turbulence,

Surface vorticity contours of a flow transitioning from Pressure field and streamlines over Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) laminar to turbulent on a solar race car a rail car in cross flow of flow over a sports car 11 Altair nanoFluidX™ Particle-based Fluid Dynamics Simulation

Altair nanoFluidX is a particle-based (SPH) fluid dynamics simulation tool to predict the flow in complex geometries with complex motion. It can be used to predict the oiling in powertrain systems with rotating shafts / gears and analyze forces and torques on individual components of the system. Utilizing the GPU technology empowers high-performance simulations of real geometries.

Benefits code allows for an elegant and efficient approach to flows which undergo high Product Highlights nanoFluidX is based on a weakly- deformation during the simulation, such as compressible SPH formulation and contains a sloshing, violent multiphase flows or rapid • Particle-based (SPH) fluid number of exclusive features which improve dynamics simulation movement through complex geometry. accuracy and make the code a unique • Mesh-less method to simulating particle-based solution on the market. complex fluid flow That makes it ideal for many applications • Superior performance due to in different industries, including: high-density GPU computing The software is created and optimized for • Well suited for elaborated use on clusters of Graphical Processing Units • General Free-surface Flows powertrain applications – (GPUs), making it extremely fast. It can be Simulate sloshing of oil in the powertrain used to predict, for example, the oiling in gearboxes, crankshafts, etc. systems, free flowing fluids in an open powertrain systems with rotating shafts/gears environment, open or closed tanks under and analyze forces and torques on individual high accelerations and similar phenomena. components of the system or predict the sloshing in tanks with transient motions. • High-density Ratio Multiphase Flows For such typical gear-train applications, The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics the code can run an order of magnitude (SPH) method of nanoFluidX allows for easy faster than a Finite-Volume code while also treatment of high-density ratio multiphase including less geometry simplifications. flows (e.g. water-air) without additional computational effort. The fluid interfaces are a natural by-product of the SPH method Learn more: Applications and no additional interface reconstruction is altair.com/nanofluidx The particle-based nature of the nanoFluidX required, thus saving computational time.

12 Time averaged streamlines in a 4-cylinder engine Instantaneous splashing of oil in a gearbox Tank sloshing

performance advantage and power savings prescribed by an input file. • Rotating Gears, Crankshafts and with respect to their more cumbersome Study the interacting of an arbitrary Connecting Rods for Powertrain CPU counterparts. GPU revolution in translationally moving solid and the nanoFluidX has implemented options scientific and engineering computing is surrounding fluid. for prescribing different types of motion, rapidly progressing and nanoFluidX is one therefore simulating rotating gears, of the pioneering Hardware Requirements crankshafts and connecting rods comes packages which utilizes this technology, The nanoFluidX team recommends NVIDIA easy. Measure forces and torques bringing significant speed to the overall Tesla V100, P100 and K80 accelerators, experienced by the solid elements as product development. as they are well-established GPU cards or they interact with the surrounding fluid. scientific computing in data centers and Standard Finite Volume CFD codes nanoFluidX has thoroughly been tested • Tank Sloshing encounter enormous difficulties when on them. The code also has dynamic load- Particularly well suited for automotive, tackling complex geometries, often failing balancing ensuring optimal hardware commercial vehicles and aerospace to initialize. Even when they do, the pre- utilization and can run on multi-node applications, tank sloshing simulation processing times would take weeks and clusters as well. enables an accurate measurement of the computational cost of such a simulation the forces experienced by the tank or would be prohibitively large. vehicle during drastic acceleration, like braking or sudden lane change. • Simplified Pre-processing Mesh in a classic sense is not needed. Capabilities Import the geometry, select the element, and generate the particles. No more hours nanoFluidX brings you faster pre-processing, of pre-processing and devising a good- advanced GPU technology for minimum enough mesh. simulation time, and easy post-processing. • Rigid Body Motion • GPU Computing Besides the rotation motion, the nanoFluidX GPU computing provides a significant code allows for element trajectories

“As a contributing resource for understanding lubrication flow inside a NuVinci product, nanoFluidX has been of value to our project. The software offering, HPC and nanoFluidX makes this simulation method approachable for the non-expert user like Fallbrook Technologies, and I would recommend it as a viable option for further simulation tasks.”

Brad Pohl, Chief Engineer, Advanced Engineering Fallbrook Technologies Inc.

13 Altair ultraFluidX™ Ultra-fast Aerodynamics Simulation

Altair ultraFluidX is a simulation tool for ultra-fast prediction of the aerodynamic properties of passenger and heavy-duty vehicles as well as for motorsport applications. Its cutting-edge technology is optimized for GPUs to deliver unbeatable performance and to allow for overnight simulations even of complex cases on a single server.

Benefits Short Turnaround Times Enabling Overnight Runs With ultraFluidX, highly resolved Product Highlights The Lattice Boltzmann Method is a perfect transient aerodynamics simulations can fit for massively parallel architectures like • Wall-modeled LES approach based on be performed overnight on a single server. GPUs, and sets the stage for unprecedented the Lattice Boltzmann Method The benefits in detail are: • Integrated, robust volume meshing turnaround times. Overnight runs on single for fast design changes servers become possible by utilizing state- Fast and Easy Case Setup • Efficient Multi-GPU implementation of the-art GPU optimized algorithms, while Thanks to seamless integration into the for transient overnight analyses delivering the fidelity of a transient LES Altair Virtual Wind Tunnel™, setting up an • Tailor-made solution for external aerodynamics simulation. aerodynamics external aerodynamics simulation becomes trivial. Templates can be derived quickly for Significant Cost Savings different vehicle classes, making the workflow Conventional simulation approaches need less prone to errors. thousands of CPU cores to achieve the turnaround times of Altair ultraFluidX. Our Minimum Preprocessing Effort GPU based solution increases throughput Profit from the “Drag and Drop” nature of while reducing hardware and energy cost. this Lattice Boltzmann implementation. Low surface mesh requirements, support Run Transient for intersecting and penetrating parts, Bluff body aerodynamics, and especially together with a fully automated volume vehicle aerodynamics, are highly unsteady mesh generation in the solver, make part bynature. With ultraFluidX well-resolved Learn more: replacements easier than in the physical wind transient LES simulations become affordable. altair.com/ultrafluidx tunnel. Evaluating hundreds of configurations No need to press transient physics in a to satisfy legal regulations becomes feasible. steady-state corset anymore. 14 Intuitive case setup in the Altair Virtual Wind Tunnel Unconventional design ideas - such as using a rear-view camera mirror - can be evaluated

Industry Applications Capabilities Analysis of Results Transient aerodynamics analyses often ultraFluidX was tailor-made for highly ultraFluidX brings you faster pre-processing, produce Gbytes of results data, which need resolved investigations of external advanced GPU technology for minimum to be processed in order to be useful for aerodynamics, including the following simulation time, and intuitive post-processing. selected applications: design improvements. Altair’s powerful client-server parallel architecture enables Model Preparation Ground Transportation Vehicles in a Wide interactive CFD post-processing even for large Since ultraFluidX is offered as part of the Range of Operating Conditions datasets. Automated report generation can Altair HyperWorks suite, the challenge of Determine aerodynamic forces and moments be easily implemented and customized. (e.g., drag, lift, roll, pitch, yaw) and investigate getting CAD models simulation-ready can be efficiently addressed with Altair HyperMesh™. transient three-dimensional flow structures Hardware Requirements to understand the fluid dynamics of your Altair’s market-leading pre-processor includes The ultraFluidX team recommends NVIDIA vehicle. Potential targets of the CFD analysis some highly automated capabilities specifically Tesla V100, P100 accelerators, as they are include the minimization of aerodynamic developed for external aerodynamics well-established GPU cards for scientific drag to reduce fuel consumption as well as modeling, such as wrapping technology, computing in data centers and ultraFluidX the balance of front and rear lift and the automated gap and hole filling, and high- has thoroughly been tested on them. investigation of the crosswind behavior to fidelity surface meshing. improve driving stability.

GPU Computing Individual Customer Applications GPU computing provides a significant Use ultraFluidX for your own, individual use cases. Examine the transient flow field of performance advantage and power savings different designs, e.g., analyze buildings and with respect to their more cumbersome CPU whole cities in a large scale wind tunnel, or counterparts. GPU revolution in scientific and study the impact of local design changes on the engineering computing is rapidly progressing aerodynamic performance, like assessing the and ultraFluidX is one of the pioneering impact of local small-scale geometry changes commercial software packages which utilizes on the flight trajectories of a soccer ball. this technology, bringing significant speed to the overall product development.

High accuracy for complex flow structures Overnight transient simulation on NVIDIA GPUs Ultra-fast simulation is key for motorsport applications

15 Altair Feko™ High Frequency Electromagnetics and Antenna Design

Altair Feko is a leading electromagnetic simulation software that uses multiple frequency and time domain techniques. True hybridization of these methods enables the efficient analysis of a broad spectrum of electromagnetic problems mainly related to antenna design and placement, scattering, radar cross section (RCS) and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), including electromagnetic pulses (EMP), lightning effects, high intensity radiated fields (HIRF), and radiation hazard.

Benefits Specialized Solutions Altair Feko was the first to commercially offer Product Highlights One Product, Multiple Solvers a characteristic mode analysis (CMA) solver, By offering a selection of different solvers, which is still today the most proven and • State-of-the art simulation tool Feko users can choose the method that is reliable. Altair Feko includes specialized for antenna design and placement, most suitable to the problem that they are solutions for bidirectional cable coupling, and RCS trying to solve, or use more than one solver windscreen antennas and large finite arrays. • EMC analysis, including emissions, for cross validation purposes. All Feko solvers Model decomposition workflows for classical immunity, and shielding effectiveness are sold in a single bundle and are also part • Wide set of hybridized methods to antenna placement and EMC problems solve large and complex problems of the Altair HyperWorks licensing system. enable equivalent representation of the • Specialized tools, including transmitting/receiving antennas windscreen antennas, arrays, True Hybridization and other devices. cable modeling, and CMA Feko offers industry leading hybridization • HPC-enabled efficient, of different solvers to combine the beneficial Capabilities reliable, and accurate solvers characteristics and allow more efficient and Solver Overview accurate analysis of multi-scale problems that • Frequency and time domain full wave are both complex and electrically large. solvers: MoM, FDTD, FEM, and MLFMM • Asymptotic methods: PO, LE-PO, RL-GO, UTD Solver Accuracy and Performance • True hybridization of methods to solve Extensive validation of the numerical complex and large multi-scale problems methods and enhancements in Feko is • Unique CMA solver calculates modal carried out to ensure the accuracy of our currents, eigenvalues, modal significance Learn more: approaches. Solver performance and parallel and characteristic angles altair.com/feko scaling is continually optimized to achieve leading computational efficiency. 16 Corrugated horn antenna analysis ACC vehicle radar integration Radiation pattern for mobile phone against head and with hand phantom

Solver Performance Features • Special solver for efficient analysis • Media library with pre-defined • The Altair Feko solver is fully parallelized of antennas integrated into layered and user-defined materials and optimized to exploit multi-CPU windscreens • Powerful meshing algorithms for surface distributed memory resources • Efficient methods for finite and infinite or volume, flat or curvilinear mesh generation • GPU-based solver acceleration arrays and periodic structures with manual or adaptive refinement • Optimized out-of-core solver to deliver • Metamaterials and composites • Direct link to Optenni Lab for automated solutions when RAM limits are reached matching circuit generation Model and Domain Decomposition • EMIT interface for co-site interference analysis User Interface • Decomposition of electromagnetic problems • Imports of results from Cadence Sigrity, • State-of-the-art 3D CAD modeling to reduce computational cost FEST3D, , CST, SEMCAD, Orbit/Satimo interface, including import/export of CAD • Numerically efficient equivalent sources measurements and Touchstone files and mesh formats for complex sources and receivers • Integrated mesh engine for generating POSTFEKO Features triangle, tetrahedron, and voxel Non-Radiating Networks simulation meshes • Lumped, linear circuit models can be Visualize and compare simulation and measurement results in the comprehensive • Interface to Altair HyperMesh™ included in a simulation, often used for POSTFEKO GUI. • Comprehensive post-processing including matching networks • 2D/3D plots and animations of near and far 1D, 2D, and 3D plots, import of measurement • S-, Z- or Y-parameter files or SPICE circuit fields (radiation patterns), currents, SAR results, report generation, etc. file Network definitions • Impedance, S-parameters • Full Lua script automation for modeling, • Contours, iso-surfaces, ortho-slices configuration and post-processing, CADFEKO Features • Cartesian graphs, polar graphs, Smith charts with macro recording support • Multiple models, multiple views Set up the entire problem within the • Mathematical operations CADFEKO GUI, covering all aspects from Optimization • Imported data and measurements geometry modeling to mesh generation. • Automated optimization of multi-variable and • Export of various data formats, • CAD and mesh import/export of most major multi-goal problems with several algorithms, images, and animations including GA and particle swarm formats including Parasolid, AutoCAD DXF, IGES, STEP, Pro/ENGINEER®, Unigraphics, • Real-time monitoring of the Report Generation optimization process CATIA V4 & V5, ACIS Exchange (SAT) • Interface to Altair HyperStudy™ • Gerber, ODB++ and 3Di for printed Active POSTFEKO sessions can be exported to circuit boards a PowerPoint, Word, or PDF report. A quick Specialized Solutions • CAD healing functions for fixing reporting option requires minimal input from the user, while a template-based report may • Bi-direction coupling with complex cable inconsistencies, gashes, slivers, be generated where the user has full control bundles and along arbitrary cable paths spikes, and filling holes over the content of the document.

Automotive cable coupling problem setup Warehouse environment RFID study Naval antenna placement result visualization 17 Altair WinProp™ Wave Propagation and Radio Network Planning

Altair WinProp is the most complete suite of tools in the domain of wireless propagation and radio network planning. With applications ranging from satellite to terrestrial, from rural via urban to indoor radio links, WinProp’s innovative wave propagation models combine accuracy with short computation time.

WinProp is a powerful tool with sophisticated wave WinProp supports arbitrary transmitters propagation models for various scenarios and including cellular and broadcasting sites, Product Highlights efficient network planning modules. satellites, repeaters, and leaky feeder cables.

• Innovative, either empirical or ray The WinProp suite includes the following tools: Databases optical/deterministic wave propagation • ProMan with the propagation models Depending on the scenario, predictions models combining high accuracy and and the network planning modules are based on topographical (pixel), clutter short computation times • WallMan as graphical editor for vector building databases (pixel - with or without heights & clearance), • Wide range of scenarios and map data urban building (pixel or vector), and/or 3D supported, even allowing combination • AMan as graphical editor for the antenna patterns planar objects/walls (vector) databases. of different scenarios For a prediction, different types of databases for hybrid analyses • CoMan is the connectivity simulator for sensor and mesh networks can be used simultaneously and transitions • Network planning modules available • TuMan is the graphical editor for tunnels between the databases are computed for most standards (cellular incl. and stadium automatically. Graphical editors, CAD tools, LTE and beyond, W-LAN, etc.) and various converters are available for all • The flexible WinProp API allows the types of databases. Scenarios and Applications integration of the wave propagation models and network planning modules WinProp’s highly accurate and very fast Propagation Models into other software tools empirical and deterministic propagation models are available for a wide range of scenarios: WinProp’s powerful propagation engines • Rural and Residential include empirical and semi-empirical models (calibration with measurements possible), • Urban and Suburban rigorous 3D ray tracing models as well as • Indoor and Campus the unique Dominant Path Model (DPM). Learn more: • Tunnel and Underground altair.com/winprop • Vehicular and Time-Variant Besides the prediction of the path loss, • Satellites GEO, LEO the delay and angular spread can also be 18 Coverage based on urban buildings Display of urban propagation paths Combined urban and indoor scenario and topography with multi-floor buildings computed, as well as LOS/NLOS, directional Computation and Simulation and networks can be optimized to provide channel impulse response, angular profile both high capacity and throughput. Capacity Depending on the application WinProp offers and propagation paths. improvements due to MIMO and/or beam static, Monte-Carlo, and dynamic network forming are modeled accurately because of simulators. WinProp allows the planning of WinProp API and Engines the sophisticated deterministic propagation coverage and capacity as well as network models. Arbitrary antenna configurations The WinProp application programming simulations (performance of algorithms, (linear, circular,...) are possible and their interface (API) is available for both the analysis of delays, etc.). The user can define impact on the radio channel - determined wave propagation engines and the network the (location dependent) traffic for circuit during the propagation analysis - is considered planning modules. The very simple handling and for packet switched services (including in the network planning. of the API allows customers to integrate the the statistical distributions, mobility, etc.). wave propagation models (as well as the ™ network planning engines) into their own Coverage Altair Feko and WinProp or any 3rd party software tool. Interaction Different transmission modes can be Electromagnetic simulation can be used Air Interfaces and Applications defined (bandwidth, MCS, data rate, SNIR target, signal threshold, Tx power,...) and the to design the antennas as well as compute In WinProp various air interfaces and coverage maps (cell assignment, best server, the radiation characteristic in terms of a applications are pre-defined: 3D antenna pattern. For this purpose the active set, channel quality, Rx power in DL various solvers included in Feko can be & UL, SNIR,...) are computed individually for applied. The resulting 3D antenna patterns each transmission mode. Link adaptation describe the antenna characteristic in the far is considered and depends on the channel field and can be superposed to the 3D radio quality predicted with the propagation models. channels computed with the WinProp wave Maximum received power as well as maximum propagation models. achievable data rates are predicted accurately for each location in the coverage area. There is an interface to import and process the Altair Feko 3D antenna patterns in Capacity WinProp. For the acceleration of these WinProp computes the capacity (throughput, simulations the complex objects, like vehicles, maximum data rates, packet delays, QoS,...) can be substituted by their radar cross sections Additionally, the user can define individual of the different radio links and cells in the (bi-static RCS as computed in Feko). properties of the air interface to adapt it network based on the coverage analysis and to the requirements. Besides the network the traffic assumptions. Capacity limitations planning, the ICNIRP and EM compliance and over-loaded cells can be detected easily can be analyzed with WinProp.

Prediction on multiple floors in an office building Channel impulse response and spatial channel Radio planning for an urban network profile for two indoor locations with 3-sector sites

19 Altair Flux™ Electromagnetic, Electric, and Thermal Analysis

Capitalizing on thirty-five years of innovation in the global context of design optimization and time-to-market reduction, Flux finite element software provides solutions to low-frequency electromagnetic and thermal simulation problems. Flux includes an open and user-friendly interface that is easily coupled with other Altair software to address multiphysics problems for a variety of systems in 2D, 3D and Skew modeling situations.

Benefits several parameters together through equations is very easy. The influence of Accuracy Product Highlights any parameter in a simulation can be Flux applies advanced numerical methods and intuitively explored and visualized through well-adapted modeling techniques to produce Powered by best-in-class numerical multidimensional curves and animations the most accurate and reliable results in the techniques, Flux provides fast of color shades or arrows. and accurate results. Featuring shortest amount of time. extended multi-parametric analysis Interoperability Flux developers are constantly improving capabilities, including electrical circuit Flux can be coupled with other 3D analysis the embedded solvers to increase simulation and kinematic couplings, Flux helps you software to create the most realistic speed and enable the evaluation of analyze, design, and optimize a wide multiphysics representations of phenomena. thousands of design configurations. range of systems featuring: Considering a device as a component of a • Rotating machines larger system or designing its control strategy Flexibility • Linear actuators, solenoids is also possible by linking Altair Flux to system • The software behavior is fully customizable • Transformers & inductances level simulation tools. Different levels of • Induction heating processes to user preferences. • Embedded scripting tools and macro- interaction are possible, ranging from reduced • Sensors authoring enable the capture and model extraction to full co-simulation. • Cables, electric connections automation of simulation processes. Difficult • Electromagnetic compatibility workflows can be fully saved and repeated. Capabilities • Flux can be coupled with any software, Wide Field of Use enabling high productivity • Magnetic, electric, and thermal fields and access to non-specialists. • Magnetic/dielectric/thermal coupling • Mechanical coupling Parametric Simulation Learn more: • Multiphysics coupling Fundamental to working with Flux is • Static, harmonic, and transient analysis altair.com/flux defining geometric dimensions or physical • Parameterized analysis characteristics with parameters. Linking • External circuit connection 20 Altair Flux density in an induction Altair Flux induction heating application 15% gain on response time - Actuator machine with Skew rotor response time optimization

Powerful Geometric Description Post-Processing Advanced System Integration • Easy sketcher of 2D geometry, including Altair Flux gives access to various Considering the component in its parametric capabilities quantities including: mechatronic environment is key to optimizing • Embedded 3D modeler with fully • Electric and magnetic fields temperature its performance and look into efficient parametrized modeling constructs • Magnetic flux, inductances, energy control strategies. Through equivalent circuit • Advanced CAD import & export functions • Iron losses and Joule losses extraction, table export or co-simulation, it is • Defeaturing and simplification capabilities • Position, velocity, force, torque, speed possible to couple Flux with Altair’s system • Dedicated environment for electric rotating • Skin effect visualization simulator Altair Activate®, using several levels machines designed in 2D and 3D • Equivalent RLC circuit extraction of fidelity, depending on the design needs. and export The couplings with other tools like MatLab Easy and Flexible Mesh Generator • User-defined quantities Simulink and LMS Imagine. Lab Amesim are The Altair Flux mesh generator provides • Maps, isovalues, and vector plots also available. different mesh types and meshing • Animations technologies that can be mixed in both • 2D and 3D curves Simulation Process Automation 2D and 3D situations: • Spectral analysis • Smart automatic mesh generation based • Cutting planes • Define macros and interfaces on geometry & physics • Look up tables for system simulation • Simplify processes from geometry • Fine manual control of mesh size • Export capabilities (Excel, text, and more) generation to post-processing results via and distribution command language derived from Java • Mapped mesh and linked mesh Multiphysics and Python object-oriented languages • Include Flux in a wider calculation • Auto-adaptive mesh refinement during Flux provides fully cabled solutions to set up process in Altair Compose solving in 2D & 3D co-simulations and exports with specialized • Use the API to access Flux from any software tools focusing primarily on magnetothermal Altair Flux is also able to import meshes and magneto-vibro-acoustics analysis. directly from Altair HyperMesh™ and Altair Optimization ™ SimLab to deal with complex 3D CAD Magneto Thermal Analysis Boost your Flux capabilities with Altair ™ geometries. Coupling Flux with CFD simulation tools HyperStudy , a powerful and reliable optimizer like Altair AcuSolve™, CD-Adapco STAR- that does not require you to be an expert in Advanced Modeling Techniques CCM+ or Fluent makes results even optimization methods. Well-adapted to drive for Accurate and Fast Results more powerful by taking into account fluid FEM models, HyperStudy goes beyond simple • Infinite box for open boundary problems dynamics, and enhancing the accuracy of parametric studies, which allows for significant • Non-meshed coils the thermal analysis. Efficient and accurate gains in your designs. • Thin regions represented by surface models design is possible with Flux thanks to • Fast evaluation of geometry skewing effect all the available thermal couplings! High Performance • Non-linear anisotropic material behavior Computing (HPC) Solutions • Hysteresis modeling Coupling with Mechanical Stress Affordability of computers with multiple • Skin and proximity losses in windings Evaluation and Vibration Analysis processors or clusters bring new possibilities • Partial Element Equivalent Circuit Electromagnetic forces are the source to simulate many design configurations method for power conductors of mechanical stress or noise in concurrently. The distribution of parametric electromagnetic structures. calculations is directly available in Altair Flux Robust Solving for all applications. • Fully parametric solver enables geometrical Flux is able to accurately compute these forces or physical parameter sweeps and export them to stress or vibration analysis Flux is connected to Altair PBS Works™, Altair’s • Several iterative and direct linear solvers tools such as Altair OptiStruct™,LMS Virtual.Lab, leading solution for computing workload with multiprocessing MSC or ANSYS Mechanical. management, which will let you take • Non-linear solvers advantage of the full power of remote Altair • Distributed parametric studies across HPC clusters. several cores or machines • Auto-adaptive mesh and time-step

21 Altair ElectroFlo™ Electronics Thermal CFD Management Software

Altair ElectroFlo is a CFD-based thermal package to simulate challenging electronics cooling and other EDA thermal management applications. Easy to use even for non-CFD experts, it is capable of solving complex problems involving conduction, natural and forced convection, radiation and conjugate heat transfer.

Benefits • Accurate accounting for self-heating of traces and electrical conductors to avoid Product Highlights ElectroFlo is designed exclusively for costly over designs challenging electronics cooling and design • Coupled electrical analysis applications. Utilizing an object-based 1D Flow Network Co-simulation • 1D Flow network co-simulation and modeling approach, it achieves unprecedented • Integration of complex ”Flow Network patented radiation solver ease-of-use through extensive error-checking Systems” into the model • Embedded thermal/electrical networks and automation. Its solver leverages a • Fully automated modeling approach • The ability to model liquid cooling channels stable and powerful computational fluid for common procedures and cold-plates with little impact on dynamics (CFD) core; but, the solver’s true • Extensive error-checking computer resources • The object-oriented modeling makes strength comes from its “hybrid” approach the software easy to use coupling multi-physics and various solution Patented Radiation Solver methodologies with mixed fidelity. • Automatically combines element surfaces to have a more reasonable radiation mesh These include electrical co-simulation for joule that is not dictated by the extreme details heating (self-heating) of traces and conductors, of the problem integrated 1D flow networks for modeling liquid channels and integrated thermal, electrical Embedded Thermal/Electrical Networks R/C networks for mixed fidelity modeling. • Allow integration of thermal and/or Capabilities electrical resistive network circuits in the model with no limitations on the complexity Coupled Electrical Analysis of the circuits Learn more: • Voltage field solved in parallel with • Add internal details of components; connect altair.com/electroflo updated resistivity to evaluate Joule system to environment heating distribution 22 Electronics control module High-current bus bar Liquid cooled cold-plate

Object Oriented Modeling Define Varying BC’s by Pointing • Modify running job • Boundary conditions are applied using full to Functions/Tables • Components thermal margin tracking associativity between Objects, Loads and • Time, temperature and/or spatial Functions. dependence Liquid Cooled Applications: • The user selects application region, enters • Periodic functions, inverse functions Due to extremely high heat flux, the cooling a constant value or point to function(s)/ and thermostat controls is achieved using embedded channels with table(s) for varying values. • Polynomial, exponential, sinusoidal, compact heat exchanger cores. CFD modeling • Modify/copy objects will automatically read from file of heat exchanger core is not feasible Due to modify/create BC’s accordingly • Use multiple functions to define details of heat exchanger fins. temperature dependence with • ElectroFlo’s 1D flow network co-simulation is Automation duty-cycle definition ideal approach • User provides flow paths and channel Fully automated modeling approach Use of 2D Solids for Efficient Modeling cross-section for common procedures: of Board Layers • Automatic creation of flow nodes • Mesh: Fully automated with Geometry Import: and solid fluid interfaces user-controls for refinements • CAD, IGES, ODB++, IDF formats • Automatic creation of convective • Model Clean-up: One-click fully automated; • CSV component placement tool and advective resistors or with user-control on selected objects • User specified tolerance • Heat exchanger UA from correlation, • Electrical Circuit Detection: Fully-automated • Tools for intelligent import to capture test data or performance charts procedure to detect electrical regions using needed features, discarding thermally element resistivity and electrical links irrelevant details Post-processing • 3D plots with option to draw Extensive Error-checking High Current Applications: In these on original CAD • Check material definition prior to run applications a significant amount of heat is • Cut-plane fringe plots • Electrical BC’s applied to conductors generated in various conductors and traces • Velocity vectors sized by velocity magnitude, due to flow of electrical current. colored by any scalar With user interface and technical features • Automatic detection of circuits • Volumetric Region reports result quantities focused on electronics application, ElectroFlo • Solve voltage field for accurate prediction in any volume delivers increased accuracy while reducing of self-heating effects • Planar Region shows any result flux through modeling and simulation time. • Current/voltage BC’s a plane • Electrical links and nodes to add circuit • Automated results export to ParaView for Model Manager Listview details with minimal impact on resources advanced post-processing Gives user a glance at the entire model allowing • Bolted joint losses modeled using electrical/ modification of several objects at once. thermal plane resistance Other Capabilities • Treeview used to populate listview • Session file tracks command history Vents and Fans • Crash recovery • Color by object, type, material • Associated to walls Fan flow fixed or using • Sort by type, power, temperature, and material. fan curve • Create groups/assemblies • Can model swirl, rotation, hub heat dissipation • Copy/rotate/translate/mirror Analysis User-extensible Libraries • Laminar, Turbulent • Components, convection, material • Steady-state, Transient properties and TIM’s • CFD, non-CFD, frozen CFD

23 Altair Multiscale Designer™ Simulation of Multiscale Material Models

Altair Multiscale Designer is an accurate and efficient tool for the development of multiscale material models and simulation of parts manufactured from any heterogeneous material, such as continuous and chopped fiber composites, honeycomb cores, lattice structures, reinforced concrete, and soil and bones. Applications include multiscale material modeling for design, ultimate failure assessment, statistical-based material allowables, creep, fatigue, fracture, and impact simulations. It also provides user material plugins to commercial FEA solvers Altair OptiStruct™, Altair Radioss™, LS-DYNA, and . Benefits • Nonlinear Material Characterization Product Highlights While many multiscale modeling frameworks Validated multiscale material models exist, Multiscale Designer provides an are easily included in any macro model • Multiscale material models for unmatched combination of ease of use, simulation via the Macro Solver Integration continuous, long, and short reinforced computational efficiency, predictive accuracy, GUI and provided user material plugins composites and versatility. (DLLs) to OptiStruct, Radioss, LSDyna, • Built-in parametric & external and Abaqus. unit cell modeling Ease of Use • Accurate, efficient simulation of Computational Efficiency Multiscale Designer has well defined inelastic effects to ultimate failure methodologies, including experimental test Instead of implementing direct • Fiber-orientation mapping for homogenization, which is accurate but injection molding matrix protocols, for the development of computationally inefficient, or some other • Virtual material allowables for multiscale material models of continuous classical homogenization method, which standard specimens and chopped materials. Users can design • Plugins for Altair OptiStruct, Altair unidirectional and woven continuous is computationally efficient but inaccurate, Radioss, LS-DYNA, and Abaqus materials and both short and long chopped Multiscale Designer utilizes 3D FEA Unit reinforced products made from carbon, glass, Cells with a Reduced Order Model (ROM) or Kevlar with thermoplastic and thermoset technique that allows for both predictive polymer matrices. The process required accuracy and computational efficiency. to develop a multiscale material model The ROM performs a one-time solution is captured in 4 steps within the Multiscale of the unit cell which stores all required Designer user interface: heterogeneous material behavior of the elastic and inelastic regime into a “material Learn more: • Unit Cell Model Definition database”. Upon subsequent macro model altair.com/multiscale-designer • Linear Material Characterization • Reduced Order Model Computation simulation, each macro element calls into this

24 Definition of external unit cells in Altair HyperMesh™ Matrix phase and homogenous Laminate from stack of homogeneous plain plain weave unit cell weave unit cells of multiple orientations

database via the user material plugins (DLLs) Versatility macro analysis to resolve micro-scale fields to perform matrix algebraic calculations Multiscale Designer includes a built-in FEA (stresses and strains within each phase for the homogenized stiffnesses and macro solver which allows for automatic material of the unit cell) at a computational de-homogenized phase stresses and strains parametric multiscale simulations of several cost comparable to that of macro-scale to achieve high accuracy and efficiency. standard coupon specimens (unnotched, modeling. Both the forward homogenization notched, shear, and bend) directly within approach, where micro-scale properties are Predictive Accuracy Multiscale Designer. The stochastics module known prior, and the inverse optimization Multiscale Designer implements advanced of Multiscale Designer couples the built-in approach, where micro-scale properties damage and plasticity laws which account parametric multiscale simulation capability are determined from known macro-scale for the fundamental physical behavior of with the ability to perform Monte Carlo homogenized properties, are available. various phase materials. Each phase material and Sparse Grid stochastics multiscale of the 3D FEA unit cell is assigned a nonlinear simulations. Each multiscale material Multiscale Designer - Stochastics material law. The nonlinear material laws within model parameter can be given a Probability Multiscale Designer - Stochastics provides Multiscale Designer include damage models Distribution Function (PDF) via mean, standard a forward homogenization stochastic for brittle materials like carbon and glass deviation, and distribution type parameter simulation process which computes a fibers, plasticity models for ductile materials, input. The output of the stochastic multiscale Probability Distribution Function (PDF) for the advanced hybrid damage, plasticity models, simulation is a PDF which is used directly to homogenized macro-scale properties given brittle, and ductile behavior. Characterization calculate A- and B-Basis material allowable for the variability of the micro-scale geometry and of the material parameters for all Multiscale “Virtual Allowable” assessments. constitutive properties. Multiscale Designer Designer nonlinear material laws have well – Stochastics automatically calculates A- and defined experimental test matrices and Capabilities B-basis material allowables directly from the procedures with minimal experimental tests Multiscale Designer – Mechanical output PDFs via a virtual allowables supported required. In addition, Multiscale Designer Multiscale Designer - Mechanical provides by test methodology. material models for various product forms a well-established methodology for the (Unidirectional, Woven, and Chopped) have development of fully nonlinear multiscale been validated against several experimental material models. These models are datasets for predictive accuracy. subsequently used in linear or nonlinear

Multiscale analysis of open hole tension Probabilistic determination of virtual allowables Multiscale analysis of low velocity specimen - matrix phase damage impact - matrix phase damage

25 Altair ESAComp™ Analysis and Design of Composites

Altair ESAComp is software for analysis and design of composites. Its scope ranges from preliminary design of layered composite structures to advanced analyses that are applicable to final design verification. ESAComp is a standalone software tool with integrations to other Altair HyperWorks™ products dealing with composites. ESAComp has a vast set of analysis capabilities for solid/sandwich laminates and structural elements.

Benefits a potential failure mode can be easily missed. ESAComp complements the capabilities of Explore Possibilities Product Highlights FE tools in doing this. Advanced ESAComp The combinations of composite material features, such as probabilistic analysis, • ESAComp materials database, systems and structural concepts are limitless. become very useful when verifying the real with properties for 1000+ commercial The ESAComp materials database gives a performance of the design. material systems good basis for trying potential materials for • Covers layered composite structures a design. The analysis capabilities of Altair from preliminary design to analysis ESAComp enable quick and easy trade-off Optimize Your Design of details studies, such as between solid, sandwich Besides the user environment that allows • Standalone tool that interfaces with practical hands-on optimization of designs, general finite element packages or stiffened designs. • ESAComp integration with ESAComp integrates as part of more complex HyperWorks enhances composites Be Efficient optimization systems. pre- and post-processing Using the right tool at different phases • Used worldwide in all industries of a project ensures efficiency. The FEA Learn About Composites utilizing high-performance environment is not ideal for laminate level To help users get started, ESAComp’s composites studies or lay-up design. In the early phases easy-to-follow documentation includes of a project, the structural elements of tutorials and reference materials, along ESAComp provide fast analysis without with first-class technical support. a full geometric model. Capabilities Avoid Pitfalls Learn more: Data Bank and Multi-level Database altair.com/esacomp Designing with composites is a challenge. The ESAComp Data Bank includes data for Without careful assessment of the structure, a wide selection of composite materials

26 Comparison of laminate properties In-depth failure information for Altair HyperView™ Composite pressure vessel analysis

and material systems. User and company laminate failure with selected failure criterion Material and laminate data can be exported specific material libraries can be stored in the (including advanced criteria like Puck 2D/3D, in the following solver formats: Altair database, as well as data related to design LaRC03) to analyses of flat and curved OptiStruct™, Nastran, Abaqus, ANSYS, studies. Besides materials, the ESAComp rectangular panels, including stiffened ones and LS-DYNA. database includes ESAComp objects: fibers/ (failure under transverse and in-plane loads, matrix materials, plies, laminates, beams, buckling, natural frequencies, geometrically Post-processing panels, cylinders, bonded and mechanical nonlinear analysis/post-buckling). FE results, material, and lay-up data of joints, loads, and boundary conditions. Beams, cylinders/cones (with and without related elements can be transferred to stiffeners; geometrically nonlinear analysis/ ESAComp for additional failure analysis. Design Environment post-buckling) and pressure vessels (shell Failure analysis includes the application ESAComp forms an efficient platform for and solid element) can be easily modeled. of advanced failure criteria such as Puck performing design studies of composite Furthermore, bonded and mechanical or LaRC03, which are often not available structures. The display of graphical results joint simulation, probabilistic analyses, in solvers. Reserve factors are computed helps in performing trade-off studies between simulation of moisture diffusion, prediction for all layers as well as on laminate level, materials and structural alternatives. of delamination/debonding and much covering, for example, wrinkling failure and more are possible. interlaminar shear. This information can be ™ Users have almost limitless options for passed to Altair HyperMesh Desktop for SI and British/U.S. Units selecting and combining the resulting data visualization along with information on failure and to display it as numeric tables, layer, bar, Units and output formats can be changed modes and critical layers. line, and polar charts, carpet plots, failure at any time during the session. envelopes and 3D contour plots. Further, ESAComp offers through-the- Python Scripting thickness plots, which illustrate the stresses, Comprehensive Documentation Enabling extension of analysis capabilities strains or reserve factors (margins of safety ESAComp documentation not only helps with user scripts, execution of batch runs, and inverse reserve factors, respectively), structural engineers familiarize themselves and integration to user’s design workflows. Loads and laminates can be derived with composite engineering, but also from the imported load case to benefit provides extensive theoretical reference Altair HyperWorks Integration from ESAComp’s whole set of tools documents needed by composites experts. Pre-processing for design improvement. Materials and lay-ups can be transferred to Analysis Capabilities Altair HyperMesh™ while taking advantage Currently supported solver profiles are ™ Analysis tools are available for various of ESAComp’s capabilities, such as multiple Altair OptiStruct and Nastran. aspects of composite structural design. strength sets, environment-dependent material From micromechanics, through laminate data (e.g. temperature or moisture), the stiffness and hygrothermal expansion practical user interface for lay-up definition, using Classical Lamination Theory (CLT), and its laminate design capabilities.

27 Altair HyperStudy™ Multi-disciplinary Design Exploration & Optimization

Altair HyperStudy is a multi-disciplinary design exploration, study, and optimization software for engineers and designers. Using design-of-experiments, metamodeling, and optimization methods, HyperStudy creates intelligent design variants, manages runs, and collects data. Users are guided to understand data trends, perform trade- off studies, and optimize design performance and reliability. HyperStudy’s intuitive user interface combined with its seamless integration to Altair HyperWorks™ makes design exploration technology accessible to non-experts.

Product Highlights Benefits and overall system performance. HyperStudy provides engineers and designers DOE methods in HyperStudy include: • State-of-the-art design exploration, a user-friendly environment with state-of- • Box-Behnken metamodeling, and optimization the-art design exploration methods and data • Central composite design methods mining tools to: • D-Optimal • Data mining tools that are easy • Efficiently understand the relationships • Direct input of external run-matrix to understand and interpret between design parameters and • Direct interface to the most • Fractional factorial popular CAE solvers design requirements • Full factorial • Fully integrated with Altair • Easily sort, analyze, and explore large design • Hammersley data sets HyperWorks, seamless shape • Modified Extensible Lattice optimization via Altair HyperMorph® • Perform quick trade-offs between conflicting Sequences (MELS) designs requirements • Latin HyperCube • Quickly calibrate simulation models to correlate with test data • Plackett-Burman • Increase product life and robustness • Taguchi • Reduce design development cycles • User defined • Increase the return on their CAE solver investments Fit Approach Fit approach is used to create meta-models Capabilities to replace computationally intensive Learn more: Design of Experiments (DOE) simulations. They are also used to smooth altair.com/hyperstudy DOE helps engineers to clearly understand noisy functions to enable optimization the relationships between design variables algorithms to work more effectively.

28 • 16% Reduction in Damage

• 31% Reduction in Mass

17% Improvement in Reliability

Trailing arm design optimized for durability 7% weight reduction of an automotive Reliability optimization of the Mars lander seat design using Altair HyperStudy

Fit models can be used in DOE, optimization, Stochastic studies can be performed using tools with HyperStudy by direct parameter and stochastic studies. HyperStudy’s fit either the exact simulation or fit model. and response import. For other solvers, module allows use of different methods for HyperStudy sampling methods include: HyperStudy is a powerful parameterization tool different responses. Available fit methods are: • Simple Random with a built-in text and numeric processor. • Least squares regression • Latin Hypercube • Moving least squares • Hammersley Shape Parameter Definition Using • Radial basis function • Statistical distribution functions Morphing Technology • HyperKriging (Normal, Uniform, Triangular, Shape changes can be easily created on Weibull and Exponential) complex finite-element models using the Optimization • Modified Extensible Lattice powerful morphing technology in HyperMesh. HyperStudy offers multidisciplinary Sequences (MELS) These morphed shapes can be saved as optimization as well as reliability and HyperStudy shape parameters. robustness optimization. Through multi- Post-Processing and Data Mining disciplinary design optimization, engineers HyperStudy helps engineers to gain a deeper Direct Interfaces to Popular Solvers can improve the overall design performance. understanding of a design through extensive To facilitate streamlining the study process If variations in design and operating post-processing and data-mining capabilities. without additional data filtering and translation environments are critical to design quality, This significantly simplifies the task of sorting, steps, HyperStudy directly reads the plot and reliability and robustness optimization can analyzing and exploring large design data sets. animation data of many solvers, including: be used reduce the sensitivity of designs Some of the available tools are: • ABAQUS to these variations. • Correlation matrices • Adams • Scatter plots • ANSYS HyperStudy contains a comprehensive suite • Effects and Interactions tables and plots • DADS of optimization algorithms that include: • Histograms • Excel • Altair’s proprietary optimization algorithm, • Parallel coordinate plots • Fluent adaptive response surface method and • Pareto plots • LS-DYNA global response surface method • Ordination plots • MADYMO (ARSM and GRSM) • Box plots • MARC • Sequential quadratic programming (SQP) • Matlab/Simulink • Method of feasible directions (MFD) Parameterization of Analysis Models • Altair MotionSolve™ • Genetic algorithm (GA) HyperStudy has a number of models • NASTRAN • Multi-objective GA (MOGA) among which are Altair HyperMesh™, • Altair OptiStruct™ • Sequential optimization and reliability Altair MotionView™, Spreadsheet, Workbench, • PAMCRASH analyses (SORA). Altair SimLab™, Altair Feko™ and Altair Flux™. • Altair Radioss™ • Single loop approach (SLA) HyperMesh, Altair MotionView and • StarCD • User-defined optimization algorithms Altair SimLab™ models are HyperStudy's (through included API) direct integration with Altair pre-processors HyperMesh, MotionView and SimLab. They Stochastic provide the capability to directly parameterize The stochastic approach in HyperStudy finite-element, multi-body, and fluid-dynamics- allows engineers to assess reliability and solver input data for CAE solvers, thus making robustness of designs and provide qualitative the study parameterization process easy and guidance to improve and optimize the design efficient. Feko, Altair Flux,™ Spreadsheet, and based on these assessments. Workbench models simplify the use of these

29 Altair MotionSolve™ Multi-body System Simulation

Altair MotionSolve is an integrated solution to analyze and optimize multi-body systems. MotionSolve offers powerful modeling, analysis, visualization, and optimization capabilities for simulating complex systems. You can perform kinematic, dynamic, static, quasi-static, linear, and vibration analyses. MotionSolve helps you to understand and improve the performance of your product.

Benefits Reduce Design and Manufacturing Risk Through simulation evaluate a wide variety Reduce Product Development Time Product Highlights of alternative concepts and designs very Build simple models early in the design phase and add complexity as the design evolves. quickly and choose the best design. • Comprehensive multi-body solution Moreover, as the design evolves easily to optimize mechanical system MotionSolve supports a large set of modeling validate updated designs with models performance elements and a variety of analysis methods to that have already been built. • Easily model, analyze, evaluate, and facilitate this. Through simulation you avoid optimize your mechanical system time consuming physical testing and get to Modeling Capabilities • Validated across several automotive, the right answer earlier. aerospace, and general machinery MotionSolve supports a rich set of modeling applications Improve Product Quality elements that allows you to build multi-body • Extensively correlated to test data Build multi-body models that have the fidelity systems with the desired degree of complexity. through partnership with customers to capture phenomena of interest to you and MotionSolve is an open platform that offers accurately solve the underlying equations to built-in integration with CAD, FE, Controls, 1D characterize product behavior. Examine the simulation, CFD, and Optimization. product behavior to determine if the design meets your need. MotionSolve models routinely include: • 2D and 3D rigid bodies Accelerate Product Innovation • Linear and nonlinear flexible bodies Evaluate the behavior of complex systems • Lower- and higher-pair constraints in realistic settings. Perform design of • Linear and nonlinear force connectors experiments (DOE) and stochastic simulation • General 2D and 3D contact based on to characterize and optimize product CAD geometry Learn more: performance. Use the loads computed by • Contact between deformable altair.com/motionsolve MotionSolve for component weight, strength curves / surfaces and other performance optimization. • Joint friction, limits and slope 30 2D contact between cam and follower Excavator flexbody simulation Unmanned Aerial Vehicle dynamics analysis

• Motion inputs Tire and the OpenCRG standard, MotionSolve environment you connect the systems so • Transfer functions and state matrices provides tires and roads of varying fidelity they can exchange signals at run time. Then • Splines for inputting test data for your applications. Templates for common you run a simulation of the entire system to • Event sensors subsystems such as suspensions, steering evaluate how well the system is performing. • Generic nonlinear algebraic and leaf springs are available. Wizards guide Alternatively, MotionSolve can import and differential equations you step-by-step to quickly assemble a car Simulink Coder C code as user subroutines • User-defined elements to model or truck. Simple user interfaces permit you and perform the same simulation. non-standard phenomena to define and run static, dynamic or steady • MotionSolve supports the FMI/FMU state events. Automated reports allow you 2.0 protocol so you can include a wide Analysis Capabilities to quickly assess system performance. You variety of models that have been With MotionSolve, you can determine can extend all of the above to facilitate developed elsewhere. whether a system meets its desired workflows specific to your organization. requirements. You can study the dynamic For instance, you can have Excel drive the Altair HyperWorks™ Integration behavior of a system, compute its vibration Model-Analyze-Evaluate-Improve workflow. With MotionSolve, HyperWorks delivers characteristics, assess the performance With these core capabilities you can perform a complete multibody simulation of control systems in the system, perform suspension design and analysis, evaluate environment. You can: packaging studies and generate realistic loads vehicle dynamics, assess controller behavior, • Easily build multi-body models in to predict component life and damage. If conduct rough road simulations for MotionView as well as in Altair HyperMesh™ these built-in analyses are not adequate, you estimating component durability and study • Review system results as animations and can create and use your own analysis scripts. the NVH characteristics of your vehicle. plots with Altair HyperView™ and Altair HyperGraph™ MotionSolve provides many options for General Machinery & Mechanism Solutions • Run custom scripts for complex post- analyzing system behavior: Mechanisms are used in all industries. processing with Altair Compose™ • Implicit/explicit, stiff/non-stiff and DAE/ODE MotionSolve provides comprehensive contact • Improve system fidelity by generating based methods of numerical integration capabilities that enable you to quickly build reduced flex-bodies with the Altair • Static/quasi-static solvers to compute static and accurately analyze complex systems that OptiStruct™ equilibrium configurations and loads may contain thousands of contacts. As with • Perform component optimization in • Automatic detection and removal of automotive solutions, you can also create OptiStruct with loads computed by redundant constraints a library of parametric components, templates MotionSolve • Kinematic analysis for motion for systems and use wizards to build models • Couple with Altair AcuSolve™ to analyze driven systems and run simulations. For more information about multi-body systems where fluid effects • Linear analysis with ABCD export, general machinery and mechanism solutions, are important eigenvalue computation and modal please see the general machinery brochure. • Connect to Altair Activate® to design and energy distribution tables validate mechatronics systems • Co-simulation to solve 1D, Controls and Mechatronics Solutions • Use Altair HyperStudy™ to perform system multi-physics problems MotionSolve provides state-of-the-art level DOE, optimization and stochastic studies • Custom analyses specified integration to 1D and controls software so in user-subroutines you can reuse validated MotionSolve models in this context also. Vehicle Dynamics, Durability • Early in the design phase, you can & NVH Solutions import linearized multibody models from MotionSolve provides a comprehensive MotionSolve as state matrices (ABCD) into solution for the automotive market. your controls package and perform the For a complete description, please see control design. the automotive brochure. MotionSolve • Later, in the evaluation phase, you can contains a library of parametric automotive import high fidelity MotionSolve models components that help you build subsystems. into Matlab, Simulink or Altair Activate® to With support for TNO Delft-Tyre, FTire, CD evaluate the controller. In the 1D or controls 31 Altair Tailored Solutions Customized Software Enhancements

Altair understands that design processes are very specific to individual companies. As part of our commitment to enable our customers to create innovative design solutions efficiently, our services group routinely tailors Altair HyperWorks™ solutions to meet their unique requirements, embedding the simulation platform with client specific intelligence.

Benefits Packaged Solution Offerings Solution Highlights Simplified Processes After many years of creating tailored Working closely with our clients, we identify solutions for our clients, we’ve learned • Automate, standardize and simplify improvements in their existing operations and that select engineering groups require engineering practices increase efficiency through system integration, very similar modifications to the core • Customize software solutions to process automation, and data management. HyperWorks experience. To address this,

accelerate product development we created a series of Packages Solution • Fast and flexible deployment Flexible Solutions Offerings (PSO’s) that leverage our client’s • Increase efficiency and product Bundled software and service packages are performance through process tailored and delivered based upon a customer’s investment in Altair’s licensing model. modifications unique environment and requirements. Developed, implemented and supported by • Packaged solutions leveraging Altair’s our specialist services team, our PSO’s are licensing model Accelerate Product Development rapidly deployed and customized to meet • Fully customized workflows Automate, standardize and simplify each organization’s unique processes. addressing specific needs common engineering practices so our clients’ engineers can focus on developing Noise, Vibration, & Harshness Director new products and avoid being consumed by HyperWorks has a broad range of NVH repetitive and highly time-consuming tasks. functionality for NVH engineers, designed to reduce the simulation cycle time, freeing CAE Expertise engineers to focus on optimizing product With more than 800 designers, engineers, scientists and creative thinkers across the design and performance. NVH Director (NVHD) Learn more: globe, our team is well qualified and highly is the first commercial software solution that altair.com/tailored-solutions experienced in diverse applications of makes full-vehicle NVH simulation possible in engineering analysis. the most advanced and streamlined form.

32 Results visualization in Squeak & Rattle Director Optimization and design exploration Mobile-accessible dashboards in Weight Analytics with MDO Director

Squeak & Rattle Director a novel set of software tools that provides Additional packaged solutions include: Altair’s Squeak and Rattle Director (SnRD) is a a process to rapidly set up, execute, post- • Automated Reporting Director: automate novel set of software automations to rapidly process and explore the design of MDO the mechanics of generating a report identify and analyze design alternatives problems with gauge variables. Designed to • GeoMechanics Director: convert seismic to eliminate the root causes of squeak ensure that existing CAE processes can remain data and perform reservoir simulations and rattle (S&R) in assemblies. Tailored unchanged, the MDO Director can be tailored • Impact Simulation Director: predict drop to be deeply integrated within the client’s to be fully compatible with our client’s design impact damage with a process-oriented environment and processes, SnRD offers a processes and environment, and thus, tailored end-to-end automation complete set of capabilities to streamline to be integrated in a simulation-driven product • Model Mesher Director: manage the the entire S&R simulation workflow process design environment. Fully integrated into entire meshing process, including model from model creation to results visualization. the HyperWorks software platform, the MDO simplification and repair Fully integrated in Altair HyperMesh™ Director provides a semi-automated process • Virtual Gauge Director: correlate strain and Altair HyperView™, this user-friendly to reduce the complexity of MDO set up, gauge positions between test data and solution provides a highly semi-automated enabling teams to drive the design to program simulation approach to determine relative component timescales within a user-friendly environment. validate displacements in the time domain that can • Weld Certification Director: lead to undesired squeaking and rattling in weld lines against regulations Weight Analytics products. By identifying potential areas of Altair’s Weight Analytics (WA) solution Custom Workflows concern in the early stages of design, the manages the entire Weight and Balance We know that our PSO’s don’t cover overall design quality can be improved, (W&B) process empowering engineering and everything, which is why our specialized and significant cost and time savings management teams to control and ensure consulting team is available to work can be realized. W&B attributes meet program requirements. alongside an organization’s engineering groups to identify inefficiencies in their Multi-Disciplinary Optimization Director Deployed as a common weight management design processes, and suggest tailored A multi-disciplinary optimization (MDO) tool across the enterprise, WA enables faster modifications to streamline CAE workflows approach allows for exploration of all design and more accurate decision-making with and solve specialized industry vertical requirements simultaneously, achieving on-demand access to visualize, analyze and engineering challenges. lighter products, faster. Until now, enabling predict W&B at any point in time during the this process on live vehicle programs has entire Product Lifecycle (PLC). been a challenge. Altair’s MDO Director is

“Altair was able to provide us with a customized program that precisely catered to our reporting needs, allowing more time to focus on the project.” James Smith, Senior Design Technician F. tech R&D North America

33 Altair HyperLife™ Fatigue Life and Durability Prediction Workflow

Altair HyperLife is a comprehensive and easy to use durability analysis tool directly interfacing with major FEA result files. With an embedded material database, HyperLife offers solutions for fatigue life predictions under static and transient loading across a range of industrial applications.

Benefits theories. Various stress combination Product Highlights Easy to Learn methods are available for Uniaxial The easy to use and easy to learn GUI, will assessment. Critical plane implementation • Fast and reliable Fatigue software to bring efficiency to simulation teams. The for Multiaxial assessment. calculate damage and Fatigue life intuitive user experience enables novice • Durability workflows embedded to expert users to perform Fatigue life For Stain-Life (EN) - Neuber plasticity option and integrated for CAE based predictions at ease. available for Uniaxial and Jiang-Sehitoglu Fatigue evaluation plasticity model (default) for Multiaxial • Standard Material Database with Solver Neutral assessment. more than 500 sets and utilities to The most commonly used FEA result data estimate and generate Material curves • Factor of Safety • Specialty module for Fatigue strength from leading solvers can be interfaced as Factor of Safety calculations based on Dang assessments according to numerous input file. Van fatigue limit criterion which is used to design codes and guidelines for both welded and unwelded material. Accelerated Decision Making predict if a component will fail in its entire (Available on request for FKM, EC3 Perform multiple variations of analysis load history. and DVS1612) settings without starting a new session there by accelerating decision making • Weld Fatigue Weld Fatigue assessment type is available and saving cost. for Spot Welds and Seam Welds. Capabilities • Spot Weld Structural stress method implementation Fatigue Analysis Method when spot weld nuggets are idealized with Learn more: • Stress Life (SN) and Strain Life (EN) CHEXA, CWELD and CBAR/CBEAM element altair.com/hyperlife Uniaxial and Multiaxial assessment options representation. with multiple Mean stress correction 34 Methods Materials Loadmap

• Seam Weld Stress State Mean Stress Correction Plasticity Structural stress method implementation for Seam welds idealized with plate or Abs Max Shear Principal X Normal shell elements. The approach is based on Goodman (Default) Max Principal Y Normal Gerber VOLVO method. Supported weld type is VONMISES Z Normal Gerber2 Uniaxial Signed von X-Y Shear NA FILLET weld and the weld lines (root and Soderberg Mises Y-Z Shear toe) are automatically identified seam weld FKM SN TRESCA Z-X Shear fatigue analysis based on VOLVO method. Signed TRESCA Signed Max Material Database Goodman - Tension damage model NA Materials can be created and assigned to Multiaxial FKM - Tension damage model NA (Stress tensors are directly used) the parts. The application is preloaded with Findley - Shear damage model a library of Fatigue material properties, from Abs Max Signed Max which you can choose. The user can also load Principal Shear materials from their data database or create Max Principal X Normal new materials in the session. Materials can Min Principal Y Normal Smith-Watson-Topper (SWT) Uniaxial VONMISES Z Normal Morrow Neuber be estimated based on UTS Signed von X-Y Shear Morrow2 and assigned to parts. Mises Y-Z Shear TRESCA Z-X Shear EN SGTRESCA Signal Processing Jiang-Sehitoglu A simple yet robust signal processing Smith-Watson-Topper (SWT) - Tension plasticity damage model available with LoadMap utility. Durability model - Non- Fatemi-Socie Model (FS) - Shear events can be created automatically or Multiaxial NA (Stress tensors are directly used) proportional damage model loading manually for pairing FEA loadcases and Brown-Miller Model (BM) - Shear (Default, not damage model fatigue loadhistory files. Commonly used exposed.) Loadhistory file types: DAC, RPC and CSV file formats are supported. A simple sine curve or block loading sequence can be created on Welds Method Mean Stress Correction Weld Elements Plasticity one click. Seam VOLVO FKM Shell elements NA

Analysis CBAR The Fatigue analysis setting can be CBEAM Spot RUPP FKM NA reviewed before submitting the run. Once CWELD CHEXA the analysis is completed, the results can be subsequently loaded to visualize the Supported file formats for Welds are H3D and OP2. Damage and Number of Cycles to Failure contour. A 3D histogram of Damage matrix and Rainflow matrix is available. The same geometry can be re-rerun after modifying any settings in the previous steps.

35 Altair HyperMesh™ High-Fidelity Finite Element Modeling

Altair HyperMesh is a high-performance finite-element pre-processor that provides a highly interactive and visual environment to analyze product design performance. With the broadest set of direct interfaces to commercial CAD and CAE systems and a rich suite of easy-to-use tools to build and edit CAE models, HyperMesh provides a proven, consistent analysis platform for the entire enterprise.

Benefits technology, HyperMesh eliminates the need Open-Architecture Design to perform manual geometry clean-up Product Highlights Combining the broadest set of direct and meshing, thus accelerating the model CAD and CAE interfaces with user-defined development process. • Strong shell and solid meshing integrations, HyperMesh fits seamlessly algorithms, either fully automatic within any simulation environment. Advanced 3D Model Visualization or with detailed manual control 3D visualization of all element types (1D, 2D • Excellent CAD interoperability High-Speed, High-Quality Meshing and 3D elements) within an FEA model eases • Comprehensive composites Streamlines the modeling process and model checking and visual verification. modeling support provides a suite of tools to model even • Complete interfaces to the industry’s the most complex geometries. Model Setup most popular solvers A variety of sophisticated tools help with • Management of complex assemblies Model Build and Assembly efficient model setup. The ID Manager ensures promoting common model build HyperMesh Part Browser is dedicated that all entities of a model even across or per to part level Model Build and Assembly, include files adhere to a specified numbering Representation management and Configuration scheme of a workgroup or a company to management. A bi-directional link to PDM ensure modularity. HyperMesh provides enables the seamless import and export of connector technology, a highly automated the model hierarchy. The Part Library is used way for assembly of hundreds of parts with to manage, control, and update Library Part spot- and seam welds, adhesives or bolts. revisions and serves as a centralized library of Automated contact management tools are HyperMesh parts, which in turn facilitates the a huge time saver when defining contacts collaboration between simulation teams both between individual parts. locally and abroad. Learn more: Composites Modeling altair.com/hypermesh Increases End-User Modeling Efficiency Ply and laminate entities facilitate Using sophisticated batch meshing composites modeling in terms of individual 36 Modern and efficient CAE modeling environment Efficient generation of high quality meshes Fast composite modeling process and Sophisticated layer visualization

layer shapes and their stacking sequence. the entire model or for individual features • ACIS • PARASOLID CATIA CPD and Fibersim readers extract and regions of the geometry are possible. • CATIA V4/V5/V6 • PTC Creo composite data and map it onto FE meshes Mesh controls can be saved in the database • IGES • SolidWorks automatically. Plies and ply angles can be or exported and reused in other models, • Altair Inspire™ • STEP visualized in 3D for easier model verification. promoting standardized mesh quality • Intergraph • Tribon and repeatability. • JT • NX Meshing Capabilities HyperMesh presents an advanced suite of easy- Batch Meshing Customize HyperMesh to to-use tools to build and edit CAE models. For The Altair BatchMesher™ in HyperMesh is Fit Your Environment 2D and 3D model creation, users have access to the fastest way to automatically generate Customize your modeling experience through a variety of mesh generation capabilities, as well high-quality finite element meshes for large an easy-to-use interface containing drag-and- as Altair HyperMesh’s powerful automeshing assemblies. It is available as a standalone drop toolbars, configurable pull-down menus module. application or directly within Altair HyperMesh. and keyboard-controlled shortcuts. High Fidelity Meshing By minimizing manual meshing tasks, Custom Utilities: Create custom applications • Surface meshing this automeshing technology provides that are fully integrated within the • Solid map hexa meshing more time for value-added engineering HyperMesh interface. • Tetra meshing simulation activities. BatchMesher provides • CFD meshing user-specified control over meshing criteria Solver Input Translators: Users can extend • Acoustic cavity meshing and geometry clean-up parameters as HyperMesh’s interface support by adding • Shrink wrap meshing well as the ability to output to customized input translators to read different analysis • SPH meshing model file formats. data decks. Surface Meshing Industry Specific Meshing Solver Export Templates: Export The surface meshing module in HyperMesh HyperMesh provides a variety of meshing templates allow the HyperMesh database contains a robust engine for mesh generation algorithms for different industries and to be exported to user-defined formats for that provides unparalleled flexibility and verticals, such as acoustic cavity meshing proprietary and specialized solvers. functionality. This includes the ability and mesh coarsening for NVH applications, to interactively adjust a variety of mesh and shrink wrap meshing or SPH meshing. parameters, optimize a mesh based on a set of HyperMesh also offers a highly-competitive CAE Solver Interfacing user-defined quality criteria, and create a mesh suite of tools for CFD meshing. HyperMesh provides direct import and using a wide range of advanced techniques. export support to the industry's most popular CAD Interoperability solvers. Additionally, HyperMesh provides Solid Meshing HyperMesh includes direct readers to a completely tailored environment for each Using solid geometry, HyperMesh can utilize popular native CAD file formats. Moreover, supported solver. both standard and advanced procedures to HyperMesh has robust tools to clean-up • Abaqus • Moldex3D connect, separate, or split solid models for imported CAD geometry that contain surfaces • • Moldflow tetra-meshing or hexa-meshing. Partitioning with gaps, overlaps and misalignments which • Altair AcuSolve™ • Altair MotionSolve™ these models is fast and easy when combined hinder high-quality mesh generation. • Adams • Nastran MSC with HyperMesh's powerful visualization • ANSYS • Nastran NX features for solids. This allows less time spent By eliminating misalignments and holes, • CFD++ • nCode preparing geometries for solid meshing. The and suppressing the boundaries between • EXODUS • Altair OptiStruct™ solid meshing module quickly generates high adjacent surfaces, users can mesh across • Femfat • PAM-CRASH quality meshes for multiple volumes. larger, more logical regions of the model. • Fluent • PERMAS This significantly increases meshing speed • Altair HyperMath™ • Altair Radioss™ Mesh Controls and quality. Boundary conditions can also be • LS-DYNA • Samcef Mesh controls promote meshing automation applied to these surfaces for future mapping • Madymo • Simpack for surface, batch meshing, adaptive and to underlying element data. • Marc • StarCD volume mesh generation. Detailed local and global control of mesh parameters for either

37 Altair HyperView™ CAE Results Visualization and Reporting

Altair HyperView is a complete post-processing and visualization environment for finite-element analysis (FEA), multi-body system simulation, digital video and engineering data. Amazingly fast 3D graphics, open architecture design and unparalleled functionality set a new standard for speed and integration of CAE results post-processing. Coupling these features with HyperView’s advanced process automation tools dramatically improves visualization, correlation, and reporting results.

Benefits plots and tables, as well as quickly compare results and correlation studies using the Product Highlights Improve Productivity • Industry-leading 3D graphics manipulation “Report: Overlay” option. and animation speed. • One step report generation: Export • Complete visualization environment • Direct readers for popular CAE solvers and the HyperView session reports to HTML or for FEA, CFD, and MBD simulation data ability to create user-defined results translators. Publish to PowerPoint, including text, • Multi-page and multi-window • Powerful XY-plotting and 3D-plotting. images, AVIs, and H3Ds. post-processing • Customize the interface and create • Report templates for efficient specialized tools to fit individual engineering Extendable User Interface evaluation of results across different environments and needs. • Templex programming: Create custom-curve simulations • Direct link to Altair HyperView Player for math functions, perform data analysis • Comprehensive post-processing web communication and collaboration. and curve statistics within annotations of composites results and labels, and parameterize any text file. • Supports most CAE solver formats Gain Design Insight • Custom pull-down menus: Develop user- • Industry specific toolkits for NVH, • Synchronize and visualize FEA results, multi-body defined menus to provide easy access to Aero, Safety, CFD, and Manufacturing systems results, XY plotting, and video data. reports, plot macros, and custom wizards. • Results comparison and correlation • Overlay of multiple CAE models in one window. • Tcl programming layer: Automate with test data • Overlay of video data on CAE models using procedures through a programmable advanced methods. Tcl/Tk command layer. • Perform result mathematics to build user- • Custom import and export templates: defined results types such as failure indexes. Define custom import and export templates • Query model in-depth based on for reading and writing XY plotting data. user-defined criteria. CAE Animation & Data Plotting Learn more: HyperView delivers a complete suite of altair.com/hyperview Automation and Report Creation • Automated session building: Automate the interactive animation, data plotting and generation and presentation of standard digital video functionality. Users can easily 38 Cross section cuts for animations Simultaneous top and bottom contour Better results visualization with exploded view

synchronize, compare and visualize FEA Report Generation for animating and plotting CAE simulation results, multi-body systems results, XY plotting Generating a standard report is made easy results. Additional solver formats can be (simulation or test data) and digital video data with Altair HyperGraph™ by using the Publish supported through user-defined results simultaneously in the same environment. PowerPoint capability along with the Report translators that convert results into the Templates functionality. The contents are Altair H3D compressed binary format. Animations synchronized between both applications, • Contours (Scalar & Tensor) so that even individual changes in Altair HyperWorks also offers two translators, • Vector plots HyperView can be updated automatically in HvTrans and HgTrans, for working with any • Tensor plots the presentation. Users have detailed control type of engineering data. HvTrans allows • Deformation plots of the formatting and the content that is you to extract, translate, and compress CAE • CFD streamline plots exported. The utility supports all common results while HgTrans enables you to convert, • Deformed animations file formats for graphics and video. compress, and process data files using • Linear animations custom math expressions that can be built • Modal animations HyperView Player from the embedded math function library. • Transient animations HyperView Player, is a stand-alone 3-D viewer • Multi-body dynamics animations that provides a collaborative solution for Solvers supported include: ™ including flex-bodies enterprise-wide product data visualization. • Altair Radioss ™ Users can export 3-D animation results in • Altair OptiStruct ™ To aid in results comparison and correlation Altair's compact H3D format, which can be • Altair MotionSolve HyperView provides user oriented image and visualized and manipulated in HyperView • Abaqus video planes for combining Player. The player can be inserted as an • Adams test data with simulation results. object into a PowerPoint presentation or • ADVC into a web page, thus making it the ideal • ANSYS HyperView Also Supports: solution for communicating analytical results • DADS • Exploded views effectively to the audience: analysts, testing • LLNL DYNA • Iso-surfaces engineers, tool and die makers, product • LS-DYNA • Part and component tracing design engineers, and product managers. • MADYMO • Interactive cut planes • MARC • Graphic annotations Solver Interfacing • MOLDFLOW • User oriented image and video planes HyperView supports many popular CAE • Nastran • 3D stereoscopic view solver formats through direct readers, • NIKE3D • Freebody diagrams and resultant plots providing a flexible and consistent high- • PAM-CRASH • Symmetry performance post-processing environment • SIMPACK

Rich composites specific functionalities Video overlay with new multiple-point Visualization of CFD results alignment method

39 Altair HyperGraph™ 2D & 3D Plotting and Data Analysis

Altair HyperGraph is a powerful data analysis and plotting tool with interfaces to many popular file formats. Its intuitive interface and sophisticated math engine make it easy to process even the most complex mathematical expressions. HyperGraph combines these features with high-quality presentation output and customization capabilities to create a complete data analysis system for any organization.

Benefits • Marker tracking: Track markers from a video and derive displacement over time curves. HyperGraph provides design, test, and Product Highlights • Math function library: Add user-defined math engineering professionals with an intuitive functions to Altair’s large math library. • Plots huge amounts of data in a plotting and data analysis package: • Comparison of test and simulation results: customized layout from single or • 2D & 3D plotting environment: Explore Compare sets of test and simulation data multiple result files your data in xy-, complex- or polar plots • Fast repetitive plot generation through in a highly automated way. and bar charts; use Altair HyperGraph3D for report templates • Unit Scaling: HyperGraph supports • Efficient data comparison between three-dimensional line and surface plotting. automated unit scaling based on result model iterations or simulation and • Plotting huge amounts of data: Retrieve fully file meta data. test data labeled plots from data files based on • Customize the interface: Modify interface • Fully automated PowerPoint metadata and channel information with and tools to fit any engineering environment. report generation HyperGraph’s advanced plotting options. • Over 200 built-in mathematical • Summary Tables: Conditionally formatted Improve Productivity functions and operators summary tables provide an effective way to • Reports: Automate the generation and • Interfaces with more than 130 data presentation of standard plots and tables, formats identify critical key performance indicators for sessions with multiple plots and pages. compare results and perform correlation studies using the “Report: Overlay” option. • Accelerate repetitive plot generation: • Plot macros: Use plot macros to capture and Store reports over several windows and replay often-used mathematical curves. pages and reuse them for model variations • Tcl/Tk programming layer: Automate and iterations. procedures through a programmable Learn more: • Browser driven navigation: Adjust one or command layer. altair.com/hypergraph multiple plots at a time or do result math • Custom import and export templates: via context sensitive menu options. Read and write XY plot data.

40 Altair HyperGraph is part of the Campbell Diagram in plotting Mouse over highlighting of notes Altair HyperWorks framework client and table view for better visibility

• User written math functions: Build custom HyperGraph also contains a sophisticated Supported Data Formats math functions within the interface, math engine for performing complex HyperGraph supports more than 130 register existing C and Fortran routines mathematical operations or building custom data formats. The most common include: or use HyperGraph's interface with Altair math expressions including: • Altair® Formats (.H3D, .abf) ® Compose to access its math functions. • Crash injury • Abaqus (.odb and .dat) • Custom pull-down and context sensitive • Signal processing • Adams menus: Provide easy access to reports, • Curve fitting • ANSYS plot macros, Tcl/Tk utilities and 3rd party • Filtering • DADS executables. • Eigensystem analysis • DATX • Vertical specific user profiles for NVH, crash, • Integration and differentiation • DIAdem forming or multi-body dynamics. • Statistical analysis • Excel (.csv) • User-defined math functions Plot Builder And Plot Details • HDF 5.0 • User-defined expressions • ISO/ ISO-MME 13499 Altair HyperGraph’s customizable automatic Report Generation • ISO 6487 plot builder generates a series of fully • LS-DYNA Generating a standard report is made easy annotated XY plots, polar plots, bar charts • Madymo with HyperGraph by using the Publish and complex plots directly from engineering • Altair MotionSolve™ PowerPoint capability along with the Report and test data files according to customers • Multi-column ASCII requirements. A wide array of formatting Templates functionality. The contents are synchronized between both applications, • Nastran (.op2, .pch, .f06) options allow users to specify how plotted so that even individual changes in Altair • nCode data appears and is arranged on pages within ™ HyperView™ can be updated automatically in • Altair OptiStruct the session. An intuitive and highly efficient the presentation. Users have detailed control • PAM-CRASH (.dsy and .thp) interface provides browser-driven direct ™ of the format and the content to export. • Altair Radioss access to edit or modify all plot areas including The utility supports all common file formats • Ride data files axes, header, footer, legend, and curve for graphics and video. • RPC-3 properties simultaneously for multiple plots. • Report export: PowerPoint • Universal Block 58 and XRF • Synchronization: PowerPoint plug-in • xy-data files Analyzing Your Data or from HyperView Create new math curves from existing data • Animation export: AVI, H3D, GIF curves by writing mathematical expressions • Image export: BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF or by selecting from a library of over 200 • Summary data export: Multi-column, built-in mathematical functions and operators. customizable formatting

Animation of XY data as gauge Colormap plot for Modal Participation Bottle plot with Altair HyperGraph 3D

41 Altair HyperCrash™ Crash and Safety Evaluation

Altair HyperCrash is a highly tuned pre-processing technology specifically designed to automate the creation of high-fidelity models for crash analysis and safety evaluation. Through a comprehensive and procedure-oriented toolset, Altair HyperCrash improves and simplifies the complex problems of creating a quality crash model.

Benefits streamlined processes for building complex crash simulation models. Users can visualize, Product Highlights • Reduce model assembly and load-case set-up time from days to hours with organize, and manage all levels of modeling advanced model management procedures data and information with a point-and-click • Pre-processor for creation of access to the tree-style model browser. high-fidelity models for vehicle • Altair HyperCrash has built-in solver rules crash analysis and safety evaluation to avoid modeling mistakes during creation In addition, Altair HyperCrash provides a fast • Management of highly complex of most entities intuitive toolset for preparation and set-up models including submodeling and • Easily manage penetrations, intersections, of analysis input decks. include files model assembly contact management, • Dummy positioning, seatbelt routing, and dummy positioning Multiple Solver Support and seat deforming • The Altair HyperCrash database enables Altair HyperCrash is a multi-solver pre- • Airbag folding, including reference organizations to seamlessly support processor with comprehensive interfaces to geometry generation standard and proprietary corporate Altair Radioss™ and LS-DYNA. A huge library • Mesh quality module, model, engineering procedures and data structures of dummies is supported. The model checker and penetration checker • Altair HyperCrash enables part replacement prevents user errors before the export of a at all modeling levels – component, model and numerous tailored panels help subsystem and complete assembly to set up models for both solvers. Altair • A generic data model simplifies HyperCrash also has an interface to read and optimizes model creation and edit PAM-CRASH models. and modifications • Comprehensive support for over Capabilities a thousand keywords • Complete dummy positioning module Learn more: GUI • Conversion between all supported solvers altair.com/hypercrash Altair HyperCrash employs a modern graphical user interface (GUI) to provide • Belt systems

42 Dummy positioning Airbag folding Review of material orientation check in an airbag model

• Joints contains a unique seat-deformer utility that The mass of each part can automatically be • Connections allows the seat foam - on both the lower and fitted to the mass of the CAD part. back of the seat - to be deformed based on the Mesh Editing And Model Connections intersection between the dummy and the seat. Quality Users can modify and edit crash meshes The Quality module is a configurable and from within Altair HyperCrash or take Safety features include: customizable set of utilities for evaluating the advantage of the seamless integration with • Dummy positioning quality of a model by performing hundreds of HyperMesh. Dependencies like contacts, - Interactively position dummy different checks on the part, component, and loads and boundary conditions will be (torso, head, limbs) model level. A variety of checks are executed, updated automatically. HyperCrash also - Load and save dummy positions ranging from simple element checks to part offers many methods and options for editing - Merge dummy in the model connectivity and modeling errors in the and tuning a mesh for a crash analysis: - Works with LS-DYNA & FTSS dummies input deck. Users visually review the state • Adding, duplicating, and moving nodes • Seat belt creation and routing of each check represented by status color • Finite element creation (1D, 2D, and 3D) • Airbag toolset for creation and folding (red, orange and green). • Split parts or move elements from part to part • Seat deformer: Deform the seat • Renumber selected entities, parts, or the automatically to remove the initial • Model Cleaner complete model intersections with the dummy - Remove unused options • Clean the model by removing unused entities - Check connectivity for failed welds, • Create, modify, and check rigid bodies Mass Balance unconnected parts, and topology of - Full support for connection types The Mass Balance module completely connected parts (Spotweld, Mastic, Adhesive, and more) manages the mass and inertia properties of - Automatically remove initial penetrations - User defined connection representations each part as well as the entire crash model. After the masses are set for all parts and • Model Checker Safety Tools Module components, HyperCrash automatically - Exercises hundreds of unique checks This module provides a streamlined, balances the total mass of the model - Model robustness for crash- user-friendly interface to set up, edit, and according to the mass on the front and worthiness criteria define all safety-related characteristics for rear tires. HyperCrash can display, check, and - User-defined criteria checks and filters crash simulation and analysis. In addition to report the center-of-mass locations for each the standard set of safety tools, HyperCrash part, rigid body and the complete model.

Contact status check based on solver algorithms Thickness contour plot Yield stress contour plot

43 Altair SimLab™ Multiphysics Workflows with CAD Associativity

Altair SimLab is a process oriented, feature based finite element modeling software that allows you to quickly and accurately simulate engineering behavior of complex assemblies. SimLab automates simulation-modeling tasks to reduce human errors and time spent manually creating finite element models and interpreting results. SimLab is not a traditional off-the-shelf pre- and post-processing software, but a vertical application development platform for capturing and automating simulation processes.

Benefits Simplified model and assembly Product Highlights Highly efficient, feature based, modifications modeling approach • Part replacement • Process oriented, feature based finite • Improves modeling repeatability and quality • Add or modify ribs within solid models element modeling software • Directly identifies geometry features inside • Change fillet/cylinder/hole properties • Automated mesh generation without of the CAD environment such as fillets, • Fast access to model parameters CAD geometry cleanup cylinders, or chamfers of DOE studies • Reusable mesh specifications at feature level; for example fillets, SimLab is a CAD and solver neutral cylinders, holes Automates modeling tasks for modeling environment. • Templates for contact detection, complex assemblies bolt, and crankshaft modeling • Meshing Capabilities • Solver interfaces include Altair • Assembly of parts and components Meshing OptiStruct™, Abaqus, Nastran, • Mesh generation for mating surfaces SimLab takes a different approach to and PERMAS of an assembly generating a high quality mesh. It transfers • Part connections the features from the CAD model, such as fillets and cylinders, to the finite element Accelerates CAE model development for model. These features can be used in complex assemblies a later step in the process without the need • Employs an advanced template based to access the original CAD geometry again. meshing process Learn more: • Removes manual mesh clean-up There are many unique and useful tools altair.com/simlab • Simplifies load and boundary condition for generating various types of meshes definition and generation within SimLab. A template system pulls all 44 Meshing of complex assemblies Automatic template based contact creation Meshed transmission housing

of these tools together into streamlined focus on the mesh generation procedures through automated processes and automated processes geared towards instead of healing poor geometry. to manage this task easily. generating the highest quality mesh that adheres to requirements of any analysis Altair SimLab contains routines to directly Process Oriented Features type: NVH, durability, fatigue, CFD, and more. access the native geometry of the following • Mapping of results from a fine to a coarse CAD systems: mesh and from a coarse to a fine mesh Automated Mesh Generation • CATIA V5 • Menu driven modeling of bearings and • Tetra and hexa meshing of solids • Pro/Engineer applying bearing pressure • Quad and tria meshing of surfaces • UG • Positioning of spatially displaced result • 1D mesh creation for joining parts • Any Parasolid based CAD systems such fields onto the model. (Example, thermal and contact surfaces as SolidWorks, SolidEdge, etc. analysis results onto a structural model) • Automated templates for Feature Based Meshing Managing Assemblies - Bolt modeling • Automatically identifies CAD features • Robust and comprehensive toolset for - Gasket, bearing loads and joint modeling • Applies template criteria to mesh creation handling a full system of component. - Mass property idealization of features, such as cylinders, fillets, holes • Recognition of mating components and - External material and property • Automatic recognition of contact surfaces contact surfaces based connections • Analysis and criteria based meshing uses • Quick assignment of boundary conditions - Contact detection (between parts) templates and captured knowledge to to many groups within an assembly and modeling of the contacts generate appropriate meshes for each • Library of common connecting elements - Condensation model preparation analysis type, for example stress, NVH, for AVL Excite acoustic, fatigue, and others Loads and Boundary Conditions When working with complex models and Post-processing Geometry assemblies the average model size can easily SimLab includes an integrated post-processor. SimLab uses a unique methodology in reach millions of elements and nodes. At this In addition, customized processing tools such working with CAD geometry to generate an point it is no longer practical to apply as bore distortion and frequency response accurate mesh quickly. The processes used boundary conditions on an individual node are available. by SimLab make it possible to eliminate all or element basis. SimLab provides a host of geometry clean-up which enables users to advanced tools and utilities that guide users

Elliptical mesh generation for Modifications on existing mesh Bearing pressure contour acoustic simulations

45 Altair MotionView™ Multi-body Systems Modeling

Altair MotionView is a user-friendly and intuitive multi-body systems modeling environment. Its built-in parametric modeling capability and hierarchical modeling language allows users to quickly build, analyze, and improve mechanical system designs even before physical prototypes are available. In conjunction with Altair MotionSolve™, MotionView provides the perfect solution for your multi-body dynamics simulation needs.

Benefits Enforce Corporate Quality Standards Product Highlights Accelerate Product Innovation MotionView can capture your company's With MotionView you can build parametric know-how as repeatable processes to ensure • Intuitive, solver neutral environment models, easily assess alternative designs usage consistency. You can customize the user for multi-body systems modeling and choose the best design to meet interface to meet your needs, use automation • Hierarchical modeling capabilities to eliminate repetitive procedural your objectives. • Built-in parametric modeling for tasks and standardize and share models, data efficient studies of model variations and results with others in your organization. • User extensible GUI and data model Reduce Product Design Time and Cost to support product customization You can evaluate products early in the • Automated assembly for The Modeling Environment development cycle with MotionView’s physics- complex systems MotionView contains many capabilities based simulation capabilities. Furthermore, designed to simplify the creation of complex you can build a model once, validate it and mechanical models. reuse it in many different contexts. • Easy import of CAD geometry to create the system model; all popular formats Improve Product Quality are supported MotionView allows you to easily conduct • Import neutral geometry formats such as what-if analyses and stochastic simulations Parasolid, STEP or IGES to characterize product behavior. You can • A hierarchical modeling language to easily use this information to mitigate the effects build complex models Learn more: of manufacturing variations on product • Parametrics to facilitate downstream DOE, altair.com/motionview performance. optimization and design studies

46 Excavator arm flexbody simulation Wind turbine flex-body simulation Motorcycle ride analysis

• Built-in support for symmetry planes Easy Flex-body Generation and Usage drivers, springs, bushings, bump-stops, to minimize input MotionView provides a simple yet powerful dampers are available for building vehicle • Conditional logic to enable multiple set of tools to create flexible bodies models. You may add your own components topology configurations within a single in your model. to the built-in set. In addition, MotionView system model • Easily import reduced finite element supports model and task assembly wizards. • Automated system assembly via a wizard models to represent flexible bodies With just a few mouse clicks you can that reduces model assembly to just a few or build nonlinearly flexible systems assemble a fully parametric vehicle with mouse clicks • Perform error checking to identify your selection of front and rear suspension • Easy import of test data into the and diagnose modeling errors topologies, a full IC engine powertrain, multi-body system model • Connect flexible bodies to a multi-body choice of tires, smooth and rough roads and • Comprehensive modeling support for system model simulate any of the standard suspension MotionSolve and Adams • Convert a rigid component to flexible and driving events. Component loads can be and vice-versa sent for downstream strength or durability Intuitive User Interface • Mirror flexible bodies about a plane analysis. Simulation reports are automatically MotionView’s intuitive user interface allows of symmetry to simplify modeling generated. For more information, please both experienced and novice engineers to refer to the automotive brochure. build and analyze multi-body systems rapidly. A Comprehensive End-to-end Solution • Built-in workflows simplify and standardize MotionView supports the MODEL— General Machinery Solutions mechanical systems modeling ANALYZE—REVIEW—OPTIMIZE paradigm With MotionView you can import CAD • A modern user interface with context of use for multi-body systems. In a single and FE geometry to quickly build your menus in the graphics window allows for environment you can perform all of your system. All popular formats are supported. intuitive software usage tasks – no need to switch between products. Component mass and inertia properties are • A project browser with context sensitive • MODEL: Create or assemble complex multi- automatically computed. 2D and 3D contact menus, search and filtering options ensures body models graphically is easily specified between complex geometry easy model navigation • ANALYZE: Send a validated model to shapes. 2D shapes can be extracted from • A wide variety of graphically accessible a multi-body solver to run a simulation. the CAD geometry. You can also import tools to create, modify, and manipulate Altair MotionSolve and ADAMS are natively data from CSV files to create “hard points” models easily in any coordinate system of your choice. supported You can use specialized tools for modeling • REVIEW: Analyze and correlate simulation Automation and Customization generalized joints that include compliance, results to test data, compute performance MotionView is completely customizable. You can friction, limits and slop; quickly construct metrics, plot results, view animations, modify MotionView to meet your needs. belt-pulley systems, gear systems, cables, create and publish reports summarizing • Build custom objects with MotionView’s pulleys and winches. These core capabilities model behavior unique Model Definition Language may be used to quickly assemble a system • OPTIMIZE: Execute DOE, optimization, • Create custom panels and menus to and perform your analysis of choice. and stochastic studies through Altair graphically create custom objects For more information, please refer to the HyperStudy™ to understand system • Send models to solvers and retrieve results general machinery brochure. • Use scripting to automate repetitive behavior; optimize components with modeling tasks and minimize mouse actions Altair OptiStruct™ • Export component loads in FE & fatigue formats for downstream component Automotive Solutions design, strength, fatigue, and MotionView provides a broad set of tools for optimization calculations car and truck modeling. A comprehensive • Generate reports to communicate system library of higher-level, automotive-specific performance with others in your team modeling entities such as tires, roads,

47 Altair Virtual Wind Tunnel™ External Aerodynamics

Altair’s Virtual Wind Tunnel (VWT) is a vertical application tailored for external aerodynamic studies. Designed with the users’ needs in mind, the graphical user interface provides easy access to problem definition and solution strategies. The automated and customizable report generation after each simulation run provides a consistent method for design evaluation. Altair Virtual Wind Tunnel integrates smoothly with other Altair products.

About Virtual Wind Tunnel fluid dynamics solver, AcuSolve, providing fast Product Highlights Virtual Wind Tunnel (VWT) is a vertical turnaround times, accuracy, and robustness. solution providing an efficient environment • Application to perform external for external aerodynamic studies. With its Architected for parallel execution on shared aerodynamic studies automated and streamlined workflow based and distributed-memory computer systems, • Accurate, robust, and on Altair’s Computational Fluid Dynamics using a hybrid parallelization technique, scalable computational ™ AcuSolve provides fast and efficient transient fluid dynamics (CFD) solver (CFD) solver Altair AcuSolve , VWT performs • Streamlined workflow for problem simulations of flow around objects, delivering and steady-state solutions for unstructured definition and solution strategy transient or steady state solutions. With a grids. It is capable of scaling over a large • Automated & customizable focus on the automotive use case of drag number of computing cores. report generation and lift prediction of vehicles, other use cases include aerodynamics of buildings, bicycles, VWT utilizes Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and Detached-Eddy Simulation (DES) or motor bikes. technology to model turbulent flows and to predict the flow field. DES technology VWT combines several Altair HyperWorks™ combines fine-tuned, statistical RANS technologies, from advanced volume meshing to technology for modeling near walls and high-fidelity CFD simulations, rich and powerful attached boundary layers with the ability post-processing, and an intuitive user interface. of large-eddy simulation (LES) to model the separated regions in the wake behind the Learn more: Accurate, Robust and vehicle. Accurate external aerodynamics altair.com/vwt Scalable CFD Solver results are achieved for both steady-state VWT is powered by Altair’s computational simulation using the RANS approach when 48 Dedicated user interface for external aero setup CFD volume meshing of complex geometry Proven accuracy with validated solver results

physics allows and transient simulation element count and use refined layers only in Streamlined Workflow using the DES approach. AcuSolve’s fluid regions where it is necessary. Volume meshing VWT comes with a light graphical user structure interaction (FSI) capabilities are for an external automotive aerodynamics interface (GUI) containing various automations included in VWT to support studies of flexible analysis (including under body, under hood to reduce the user input and increase components in an external flow field, e.g. compartment, and boundary layers) is typically efficiency during case setup. The user imports aerodynamic spoilers. done in a few hours. the surface mesh of the aerodynamic study object, e.g. vehicle or building, into VWT, Rotating parts, e.g. wheels, are modeled Analysis Report defines the physics and volume meshing by prescribing a tangential wall velocity to After each simulation, a report is parameters, submits the simulation, and include rotational effects into the simulation. automatically generated summarizing the obtains a simulation report. Analysis templates For automotive use cases, heat-exchangers or results like drag and lift history, providing can be used to ensure consistent simulation condensers are modeled with a porous material mesh statistics, and containing the problem conditions and reporting mechanisms during model to consider the pressure drop through definition and solution strategies. User design evaluation. the components. The fluid material used defined probe points can be included into during the simulation is defined via density the simulation domain to monitor the and viscosity, and can be adapted to model for evolution of the flow field in a particular example water or air at a specific temperature. location, e.g. pressure fluctuation over time. Furthermore, VWT support user defined Advanced Meshing planar section cuts for result contour VWT comes with a fast and efficient plotting, e.g. velocity contours on the unstructured volume mesher including symmetry plane of the vehicle. boundary layer generation. User defined volume mesh refinement zones are used to Both report entities, the time history plots create a locally refined volume mesh to capture of the user defined probe points as well as important flow phenomena, e.g. the wake of a the planar section cuts for contour results vehicle or a building. Parameters for boundary plotting, are included in the automatically layer meshing can be defined globally or on a generated report. part basis to have maximum control of the total

Transient & steady solutions Bicycle aerodynamics Architectural aerodynamics

49 Altair SimSolid™ Structural Analysis for Rapid Design Iterations

Altair SimSolid is a structural analysis software developed specifically for rapidly evolving design processes. It eliminates geometry simplification and meshing, the two most time-consuming and expertise-extensive tasks done in traditional FEA, enabling the analysis of fully-featured CAD assemblies in minutes without meshing.​

SimSolid can analyze complex parts and areas, line clouds, and point clouds. This Product Highlights large assemblies not practical with traditional provides the ability to handle geometrical FEA and do it efficiently on a desktop class imperfections, as well as assembly contact • Eliminate geometry simplification computer. Both fast and accurate, SimSolid imperfections like gaps, penetrations and and meshing. With SimSolid, model controls solution accuracy using a unique ragged contact areas. preparation is done in minutes. multi-pass adaptive analysis.​ ​ • Analyze complex parts and large ​ SimSolid controls solution accuracy using assemblies. SimSolid is tolerant of The computational engine is based on multi-pass adaptive analysis. Adaptivity imprecise geometry, and its assembly breakthrough extensions to the theory can be defined on a global or part local connections are industry best at of external approximations. External basis and adaptivity is always active handling ragged contact surfaces. approximations are a generalization of The methodology is fast and efficient. It • Get results in seconds to minutes, Finite Element Method (FEM) in terms that:​ provides superior performance metrics for SimSolid is fast, really fast. Hence, computational time and memory footprint multiple design scenarios can be • Absolutely arbitrary geometrical shapes can quickly analyzed and compared. be used as “finite elements”​ that allow very large and/or complex • Basis functions which approximate field assemblies to be solved quickly on of interest in the part volume can be of desktop class PC’s.​ arbitrary class and are independent of the volume shape​ Benefits ​ Eliminate Geometry Simplification SimSolid does not use the point-wise degrees and Meshing of freedom (DOF) inherent in traditional FEA.​ SimSolid’s unique technology completely Learn more: eliminates geometry simplification and altair.com/simsolid ​SimSolid’s DOF are functionals with meshing, the two most time consuming, geometrical support in the form of volumes, expertise extensive and error prone tasks

50 Early analyze complex shape data A complex assembly like this one, with 5200 Nonlinear analysis accurately reproducing and evaluate multiple cases parts, can be analyzed in minutes the contact between bolt and plate

done in traditional FEA. With SimSolid, Supported​ Connections and Boundary Post-Processing and Reporting​ model preparation is done in minutes. Conditions​ Result types • Assembly Connections: Smart auto • Contour plots with displacements, Analyze Complex Parts and Large connections, bonded, sliding, separating stress & strains​ Assemblies​ with friction, bolted, spot & laser welds, • Deformed shape animation​ ​SimSolid has been designed to analyze fillet/seam welds, virtual connectors​ • Max/min labels​ complex parts and large assemblies not • Loads & BC’s: Immovable constraint, • Point probes​ practical with traditional FEA. SimSolid is sliding constraint, hinge constraint, • XY plots​ tolerant of imprecise geometry. Its assembly enforced displacement, force, pressure, • Reaction/contact forces​ connections are industry best at handling gravity, thermal, inertia relief, bolt/nut • Bolt/nut forces​ • Spot weld forces​ ragged contact surfaces with both gaps and preload, dynamic loads, hydrostatic • Frequencies and mode shapes​ overlapping geometry.​ loads, bearing loads, and remote loads ​ • Modal participation factors​ • Safety factors​ Get Results in Seconds to Minutes​ Material Properties​ ​SimSolid is fast, real fast. Solution times • Isotropic​ are typically measured in seconds to Reporting • Incompressible​ minutes on a standard PC. With SimSolid, • Image thumbnails and captions associated • Elastoplastic with NL stress vs strain curves​ multiple design scenarios can be quickly with model graphics state, part visibility, • Rigid​ analyzed and compared. And, accuracy and results display​ • User extensible​ can be specified on an individual part level • Synchronized model and results browsing​ ​ allowing a rapid drill down to any level of • Results are exported as full resolution CAD Connectivity​ detail that is required. image files​ • Direct data integration to Cloud-based Capabilities CAD systems​ General Usability​ Analysis Solutions​ • Standard STL output from any CAD system​ ​• Able to process mixed (SI and IPS) units​ The following simulation types are supported: • Direct file support for mainstream CAD • Measurements (distance, ray probe, local linear statics, modal, nonlinear statics systems: CATIA, NX, Creo, SOLIDWORKS, coordinates)​ (material & geometrical), thermal, coupled Inventor and SolidEdge​ • Global and local coordinate systems​ thermal-stress, linear dynamics (time, • Direct file support for common neutral • Default views (front, back, left, right, top, bottom)​ frequency and random response).​ formats: STEP, ACIS and Parasolid, etc. • Custom saved views

“When we are ordering tons and tons of the raw materials for our chains, a pound here and a pound there starts becoming important, so that’s where we spend a lot of time trying to optimize our product. Applying SimSolid to this challenge in the long run will make us a lot of money.” Bob Adams, Engineering Manager Serapid, Inc.

51 Altair FluxMotor™ Electric Rotating Motor Design

Altair FluxMotor is a flexible open software tool dedicated to the pre-design of electric rotating machines. It enables the user to build a machine from standard or customized parts, add windings and materials to run a selection of tests and compare results. Based on modern technology, the standalone platform offers fast and accurate computations. When necessary, connection with Altair Flux™ finite element software enables more advanced studies, taking into account more complex phenomenon.

Benefits No Compromise on Accuracy Product Highlights High Productivity Gain • Based on optimization technology, • Efficient working environment FluxMotor helps reduce computing time • Dedicated to electric rotating • Create a model of an electric motor to the minimum motor design and evaluate it within a few minutes • The computations are based on 35 years of • Rapidity of design • The technical-economic potential of an Flux experience, insuring accurate results • A user-oriented winding tool electric motor pre-design can be quickly • Settings adapted to the task – levels of • Automated tests and reports allowing accuracy vs. speed understood, offering a high gain of quick evaluation of machine efficiency productivity when modeling electric • Fast without compromising accuracy Connection for Advanced Studies • Open material database rotating machines • Easy Flux project export to perform • Effective machine parts management • Better visualization of machine performance advanced studies like eccentricity, (slots, magnet shapes, etc.) ensures accurate choices with possible customizations vibro-accoustic, etc. • At any time, the full parameterized Flux • An innovative way to manage projects A Broad Range of Users with catalogs project, with all the physical properties • Technicians, engineers or researchers embedded, is ready to be solved in the • From designers and manufacturers to Flux environment integrators, maintenance and training staff Capabilities Fulfill All the Design Tasks Designing Electric Motors • Whatever the level of use: beginner, • The FluxMotor dedicated design Learn more: intermediate or expert environment helps motor specialists to altair.com/fluxmotor • Whatever the task: from selection or pre-design define machines within minutes of motors to evaluation of performance • Never start from a blank page! Altair

52 Part library Material database Winding tool

FluxMotor will always propose an existing Customization of Parts (Slots, Magnets) • Maps vs (Id, Iq): Flux, inductance, torque, iron motor configuration • Offered standard parts, slots or magnets, losses, etc. • Then, step by step, from the shaft, rotor can be edited and customized for • Data sheet present comprehensive magnet to the slot, winding and housing unlimited configuration synthesis of machine performance of the stator, a dedicated interface will help • Parts can be designed from a sketcher • Working point computations with sine wave or square wave drive users to finalize machine design Powerful Project Management • Performance mapping with efficiency maps

Motor catalog environment allows easy User-oriented Winding Tool management of motors and projects. Getting a Report Automatically • Offering 4 different winding modes • Enhance project management • Description of all the achieved work for (automatic, easy, advanced, and expert • Access past studies quickly design and tests levels), the winding area is designed to help • Manage full range of products • Export files for easy machine performance users find the right winding architecture • Quick performance comparison comparisons, in html or pdf format • Settings are well adapted to the task • An automatic diagnostic is issued to evaluate An embedded comparator is available. A Seamless Connection to Go Further! the quality criteria of the winding. This helps The general data and performance of several Flux models ready to be solved and analyzed users find the right winding parameters machines can be compared to help simplify can be generated within seconds. Thanks the machine choice. to this connection to Flux finite element A Comprehensive and Scalable electromagnetic and thermal simulation Material Database Testing and Evaluating Electric Motors software, advanced studies – like eccentricity, • A large selection of typical materials is • FluxMotor’s dedicated test environment vibro-accoustic, advanced drive and control provided: lamination, magnet, electric enables users to assess motor performance strategies, etc. - can be launched. conductor, electric insulator, etc. • Standard and relevant test portfolio available • Users can manage their own materials • Predefined tests ready to be performed • Easy way to define B(H) curve or iron • Relevant input parameters allow users to losses parameters control the test conditions • Processes based on optimization technology Effective Machines Parts Management • Results are automatically illustrated • In the PartManager area, libraries are provided with standard parts List of Automated Tests Ready • A large number of slots or magnets to be Performed are available • Open circuit tests with cogging torque • All the topologies are parameterized and back-emf

Efficiency map Back-emf results Motor catalog with comparator

53 Altair Inspire™ Generative Design Taken to the Next Level

Altair Inspire enables design engineers, product designers, and architects to create and investigate structurally efficient concepts quickly and easily. Inspire uses the industry leading Altair OptiStruct™ technology to generate and analyze design concepts. The software is easy to learn and works with existing CAD tools to help design structural parts right the first time, reducing costs, development time, material consumption, and product weight.

Benefits Capabilities Product Highlights Design Faster Geometry Creation and Simplification Generate concepts which meet structural Create, modify, and de-feature solid • Structurally efficient concept performance requirements at the beginning models using Inspire’s modeling tools. generation and analysis of the design cycle. This results in significant Geometric constraints such as mirroring, • Support for optimization and analysis time savings over the traditional approach of scaling, revolving, push/pull, tangency and of parts and assemblies perpendicularity can also be applied. • Quickly and easily clean up and design, validate, redesign to meet structural • Sketch Tools – Build or modify parts by de-feature problem areas in requirements. the geometry sketching lines, rectangles, circles, and arcs • Trim/Break – Cut and remove sketch • Investigate linear static and normal Design Smarter curves at the point of intersection modes analysis Inspire makes it easy to perform “what-if” • User friendly interface with • Boolean Operations – Add, subtract, scenarios where package space, connections, extremely short learning curve or intersect solid parts to create more load conditions, and shape controls can be • Generate dynamic motion of complex complex geometry modified. Reviewing the resulting concepts mechanisms to identify and apply • De-feature - Remove imprints, rounds, often reveals valuable insights. forces fillets, holes, and pockets, or plug holes and pockets, or create patches and bridges Design Lighter • Mid-surfacing – Mid-surfacing tools allow Inspire makes efficient use of material, users to find and extract 2D sheets from only placing it where required to satisfy single thickness thin solid geometry structural performance requirements. Learn more: Reduced design weight leads to material Optimization Options altair.com/inspire cost savings, performance improvements, Inspire offers users a number and reduced shipping costs. of optimization options: 54 Optimal concept for a 3D printed bike rocker arm Optimized and 3D printed metal Analysis of an optimized robot gripper arm aerospace bracket

• Optimization Objectives - When running an • Draw Directions – Generate shapes that can which features are important and then pick optimization, designers can choose to either be easily molded or stamped by applying the concept design best suited to their needs. maximize stiffness or minimize mass single or split draw directions • Stress Constraints - A global stress constraint • Extrusion Shape Control - Generates Assembly Configuration can be applied to limit the maximum stress constant cross-section topologies in Multiple assembly configurations can be in the model during optimization a specified direction created. These configurations can then be • Displacement Constraints – Displacement • Design for additive manufacturing with used to evaluate various design scenarios constraints can be applied to a model to limit overhang shape controls to reduce overhangs and the resulting concepts. deflections in desired locations and directions to create self-supporting structures • Acceleration loads – Angular velocity and Final Model Creation acceleration tools allow users to define the Analysis Create PolyNURBS – The create and edit speed of rotation of the entire model and Investigate linear static and normal PolyNURBS tools allows users to quickly the axis about which it rotates modes analysis on a model and visualize create free-form solid geometry that • g-Loads – g-Loads tool allow users to simulate displacement, factor of safety, percent of yield, is smooth, continuous, and ready a model undergoing acceleration, which tension and compression, von Mises stress, for manufacturing. imparts a force on all parts of the model and major principal stress. • Displacement Constraints – Displacement Multiple Language Formats constraints can be applied to a model to limit Customizable Materials Database Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, deflections in desired locations and directions. Inspire is packaged with a material Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish • Temperature Loads – Temperature tool library including various aluminum, steel, allows users to simulate the effects of magnesium, and titanium alloys. Custom Shape Controls & Design Constraints temperature changes in a model materials can also be added. • Min/Max Size • Export to OptiStruct – designers can export • Draw Direction OptiStruct input files for advanced simulations PDM • Symmetry Inspire allows users to open models from • Pattern Repetition Contacts and Assemblies Teamcenter or Windchill PDM systems. It is • Cyclic Repetition Optimize and analyze full parts and also possible to save Altair Inspire models • Stress Constraints assemblies inside of Inspire. back to the PDM system. • Frequency Constraints • The Contacts tool allows users to find • Displacement Constraints neighboring parts and designate whether Part Instances • Overhang angle they should be bonded, contacting, or Parent-Child Instances – Individual parts can be have no contact copied and pasted as an instance. Whenever one Geometry Import Geometry Export • Users can connect multiple parts in a model is updated, the other is automatically updated • ACIS • IGES using the Fastener and Joints tools to add as well. Instancing information can also be • Catia (V4 & V5) • Parasolid bolts, screws, pins, or sliding pins imported from CAD files. • Creo • STEP • IGES • STL • Inventor Manufacturing and Shape Controls Pattern Repetition • JT Generate design concepts that are not only When a design space is repeated multiple times • Parasolid structurally efficient but also manufacturable in a model using part instances, Altair Inspire • Pro/E using Inspire’s shape controls: will automatically apply pattern repetition to the • SolidWorks • Symmetry Planes – Force asymmetric design spaces so they generate identical shapes. • STEP design spaces to generate symmetric • STL optimized shapes Interactive Results Visualization • UG NX (Unigraphics) • Cyclic Repetition – Create cyclically Explore optimized shapes using a simple slider repeating shapes like propellers or wheels to add or remove material. Users can decide

55 Altair Inspire Cast 5-step Casting Simulation Software

Altair Inspire Cast was developed with its end users in mind. We strive to make casting simulation as easy as possible by using ‘foundryman’s language’ in our software. Every word in the interface comes from the casting process world. Not only is the software incredibly easy to use, it is also highly accurate and powerful. Get started with Inspire Cast today to further investigate and explore your casting process with just a few clicks.

Benefits Increase Manufacturing Quality and Profitability Product Highlights Inspire Cast helps users avoid typical • Quickly evaluate casting complexity casting defects such as air entrapment, for quoting • Guided casting process simulation porosity, cold shots, and more, using software with innovative user experience • Predict common casting defects upfront its simple and quick mold filling and • Identify casting defects such as air • Optimize running and feeding systems entrapment, cold shuts, turbulence, and solidification simulation. Inspire Cast • Avoid expensive trial and error shrinkage porosity in just a few clicks offers an innovative user experience • Visualize flow front, solid fraction, allowing the complete simulation to be solidification modulus, temperature/ Minimal Training with Maximum Benefit velocity profiles, and more done in five simple steps and through Casting simulation usually requires hours • Simulate high/low pressure, gravity, a completely user-friendly interface of training coupled with extensive expertise, sand, and permanent mold castings designed for beginners and experts alike. adding cost both in training and hiring • Optimize “ingate” design and location experts. Inspire Cast eliminates such Design Better Products expensive investments by focusing on the • Quickly evaluate ‘Castability’ ease of use and keeping all complexities in the background. • Visualize solidification to optimize ingate location Ease of Use with Five Simple Steps • Simulate casting with auto-generation • Import Geometry of risers • Define Ingate Learn more: • Guide manufacturing engineers • Define Process Parameters altair.com/inspire-cast to refine process • Run Analysis and Optimize • Cast Final Part 56 Import geometry Define ingate Setup Run analysis and Cast final part optimization

Easy Templates to Simulate Finite Element Based Formulation Results Analysis • High Pressure Die Casting Inspire Cast uses Finite Element based • Flow Front • Low Pressure Die Casting formulation. Typical challenges of meshing • Temperature • Gravity Sand Casting the domain are overcome by integrating • Velocities • Permanent Mold Casting with the Altair suite of meshing applications, • Cold Shuts bringing the accuracy of FEM to the world of • Air Entrapment Capabilities casting flow and solidification computations. • Mold Erosion Optimize Ingate Design and Position This provides an extremely accurate • Filling Time Inspire Cast allows quick and simple ingate and fast solution for both fluid flow • Solid Fraction simulation - simply select the size and position and solidification calculations. • Solidification Time and Inspire Cast will auto-generate the ingate. • Shrinkage Porosity Inspire Cast’s solver uses parallel processing, Validate Full Casting Designs which enables a significant reduction in Inspire Cast allows users to validate calculation time. Since Altair Inspire Cast uses full casting designs including cavities, risers, a biphasic air-metal model for computation, chillers, cooling lines, runners, and overflows. the effect of air when filling the mold is better captured to predict the air entrapment.

“Inspire Cast is extremely easy to learn, as it guides you through the set-up process. With minimal knowledge of castings, you can generate meaningful data your first day. We use it to quickly evaluate castings for porosity and other defects as part of our quoting process. As we proceed with the projects into production we use Altair Inspire Cast to help optimize the design and location of gates and runners.”

Steve Fetsko

Powerful result visualization

57 Altair Inspire Form Sheet Metal Forming Simulation Software

Altair Inspire Form enables users to better design products while reducing lead time by enabling early consideration of formability, process parameters, material utilization, and cost.

Benefits • Modify design and gauge materials quickly Product Highlights Inspire Form is a unique software that to eliminate defects to finalize the design enables users to optimally design sheet • Optimal blank nesting in transfer die or • Stamping simulation software with the metal components considering progressive die layout within manufacturing ability to do product design, feasibility manufacturing feasibility and material cost. constraints for maximum material utilization analysis and cost estimation Thanks to the fast and accurate inverse/one- and reduction of material cost • User-friendly interface facilitating step simulation technology, users can analyze • Guide the user with the design and reduce natural workflow for innovative user the design quickly for forming feasibility. experience trial and error The nesting functionality rapidly proposes • Identify potential stamping defects an efficient layout of flattened blank on such as splits and wrinkles and modify Accelerate Die Face Design and the sheet metal coil for maximum material product design early in the design cycle Process Planning • Quick and optimal nesting of blank utilization and minimum material cost. Inspire • Evaluate product designs for feasibility in the sheet metal coil to maximize Form offers an innovative user experience material utilization for progressive and allowing natural transition between analysis, and quoting transfer die forming design modifications, and costing through a • Quickly check die face designs for stamping simplified user-friendly interface designed for feasibility beginners and experts alike. • Predict common stamping defects in die face design upfront and correct them before Design Better Products detailed incremental analysis • Quick and reliable check on stamping • Assist die face designers to identify process feasibility of design conditions like blank holder force, draw Learn more: • Visualize potential defect areas (splits, bead location, and drawbead force before altair.com/inspire-form wrinkles, loose metal) detailed incremental analysis

58 Altair Inspire Form Workflow

Import geometry Prepare geometry Process set-up Analyze

Flatten blank Material utilization report Manufacture

• Accurate net-shaped blank predictor based • Run analysis, visualize result to manage own materials on die face for incremental analysis and • Blank fit and nesting • Fast and most accurate inverse solver cost estimation in the marketplace • Quickly estimate forming load for press Geometry Tools for Product Design selection, process planning and costing and Analysis Complete Nesting Solution • Sketching tool set • Accurate blank shape prediction Capabilities • Solid modeler • Option to add additional material to account Inspire Form comes with powerful • Boolean tools for addendum and complete features that enable designers • Geometry cleanup tools • Nesting for transfer die forming with blank and engineers to do geometry based design, • Midsurface extraction fit option to standard shapes: rectangle, stamping feasibility analysis, and nesting on parallelogram, trapezoidal, miter, chevron, the product before moving on Comprehensive Support for and sweep to manufacturing. Feasibility Analysis • Nesting with one-up, two-up, and mirror • Feasibility check for regular and tailor layout for progressive die forming with Ease of Use welded parts standard carrier options: single, central, Geometry based user interface with • Feasibility check for single and double nested double-sided, double-sided, and natural workflow left to right: attached manufacturing scenarios central and double-sided and nested • Import geometry • Option to define arbitrary stamping direction • Prepare geometry • Ability to capture detailed process conditions: • Assign material pins, blank holder force, drawbeads • Define stamping direction • Built in material database based on SAE • Define constraints standard with option for user database

Altair Inspire Form Tryout Workflow

Set up trimming & Import model Set up drawing Analyze drawing Analyze springback Form springback

59 Altair Inspire Extrude Metal and Polymer Extrusion Process

Altair Inspire Extrude is a simulation environment designed to help extrusion companies meet the ever increasing demands to produce complex profiles with tight tolerances, quality surface finishes, and high strength properties at reduced cost. Inspire Extrude is a virtual press where users can visualize material flow and temperature inside a die during extrusion and make necessary changes to ensure balanced flow, while identifying and eliminating product defects.

Benefits Increase Recovery and Reduce Scrap Product Highlights Validate and Correct Die Design To minimize front and back scrap, the weld Use Inspire Extrude simulations to understand length can be computed and the skin material • Test and validate new die designs and improve the performance of a die from of the billet entering the product can be • Improve productivity multiple perspectives (nose cone, product tracked. Altair Inspire Extrude can optimize the • Optimize/correct die designs quality, weld strength, process efficiency). billet length to reduce the scrap considering all and process conditions aspects of extrusion and fabrication. • Determine product quality Extrude New Alloys • Automated, easy to learn, Flow stress and material behavior of new Determine Product Quality extrusion-specific user interface alloys requires an accurate simulation. Product quality can be improved by Inspire Extrude can handle a wide range eliminating extrusion defects and the effects of alloys. of die deflection on the product shape. By determination of seam weld location Determine Die Stresses and Failure and strength, grain size and yield strength Inspire Extrude together with Altair OptiStruct™ the product quality is further assessed. is used to determine tool deflection, mandrel shift, stress concentrations, and potential early Quenching Analysis die failure. Quenching the extruded profile is crucial for controlling grain size and mechanical Increase Productivity properties of the profile. Quenching Inspire Extrude is used to optimize ram analysis is used to predict the cooling rate, Learn more: speed, billet preheat, and billet taper temperature, and uniformity of cooling altair.com/inspire-extrude heating to improve productivity and during the process. reduce cost.

60 Bearing optimization Experimental validation of a test case Extrusion result visualization

A Complete Solution For • Track surface impurities and determine - Based on extrudability number Die Design Engineers when they enter the profile - From flow stress table data • Test and validate new die designs • Predict grain size and yield strength • Material models using user • Determine correct bearing lengths of the profile defined subroutines • Adjust porthole and pocket dimensions Thermal Management Contact Friction • Predict die deflection, stresses, and failure • Simulate coupled flow and thermal solution • Viscoplastic friction model • Determine optimum billet preheat • Coulomb friction model Simulation Engineers and taper • Slip velocity model • Troubleshoot problem dies • Determine temperature changes in tool • Improve productivity between different extrusion cycles Optimize Die Design • Predict product quality • Accurate and easy to use bearing length Virtual Die Trials correction module Production Engineers • Visualize material flowing through • Modify pocket and porthole dimensions • Optimize process conditions the die passages • Manage extrusion inventory • Determine causes for flow imbalance Extrusion System Management • Reduce scrap and maximize recovery and overheating • Calculate optimum process conditions • Prepare cost estimates and quotations • Study responses to design changes • Determine best press to increase • Determine the performance of quench system productivity Tool Deflection Analysis • Optimize billet length to reduce scrap Quality Engineers • Simulate coupled flow, thermal, • Estimate costs • Determine product quality and stress analysis • Prepare quotations • Predict grain size and recrystallization • Calculate die deflection and mandrel • Calculate yield strength shift during extrusion Results Capabilities • Minimize tool deflection to meet • Profile deformation and nose cone product tolerances • Extrusion load Inspire Extrude comes with powerful and • Identify causes for tool breakage • Seam weld locations and strength complete features that enable an extrusion • Optimize the shape and size of dummy • Transverse weld length engineer to optimize the die and improve block, backers, and bolsters • Billet skin tracking product quality in the design stage before • Particle traces and velocity vectors going into the first die trial. Super Alloy Extrusion • Temperature distribution • Simulate glass lubrication • Strain and strain rate Support for all Die Types • Predict glass pad erosion • Flow stress • Solid, semi-hollow, and hollow profiles • Compute lubrication effectiveness • Stress tensor • Multi-hole dies • Tool deflection and stresses • Feeder plates and spreader dies Quench Analysis • Product quality: • Direct, indirect, conform, • Supports for press and solution quenching - Grain size and co-extrusion processes • Analyze different quenching types - Yield strength • Quench factor analysis - Surface quality Product Quality and Defects • Compute temperature history and cooling • User defined results • Predict profile shape and nose cone rate during quenching • Glass lubrication effectiveness • Predict surface defects • Quench Analysis: • Predict the location and quality Comprehensive Material Database - Cooling Rate of seam welds • Database of commonly used alloys - Quench Factor • Determine transverse weld length • Fit flow stress model

61 Altair Activate® Multi-Disciplinary System Simulation

Altair Activate provides an open integration platform for modeling, simulating, and optimizing multi-disciplinary systems-of-systems using inherent 1D block diagrams. Users have the option to include subsystem models either from Altair's 3D tools, such as Altair MotionSolve™ and Altair Flux™, or from 3rd-party tools. Models can also be imported from Simulink®.

Benefits Activate users can easily leverage the large library of Modelica® physical components to Product Highlights Improve System Level Performance further describe the plant and the controller. Simulate and improve the dynamic behavior • Hierarchical systems-of-systems of multi-disciplinary systems. Easily model, Capabilities defined as parameterized models simulate, and validate smart systems where Build Diagrams Intuitively • Signal-based and physical modeling users can incorporate functions of sensing, can be conveniently combined to actuation, and control coming from diverse • Drag, drop, and connect paradigm to define a system model components. rapidly construct models • Built-in block libraries can be easily • Multiple window configuration with managed and extended Leverage Model-Based Development the ability to modify diagrams between Activate provides a common framework • Model exchange or co-simulation windows using the drag-and-drop and for functional product assessment and achieved through FMI / FMU copy-and-paste operations communication throughout the product • Multi-disciplinary models can include development process. Perform what-if • Support for concurrent loading of multiple multi-body models, electromagnetic analyses at the system level to quickly models in a session models, FEA models, CFD models, test numerous designs and investigate and more the interactions of all components and Hybrid Modeling • 0D, 1D, and 3D modeling can be used subsystems comprising a system. Model and simulate continuous and discrete together, allowing the best approach dynamic systems. for different types of subsystems Gain Product-level Functional Insight Early Identify product-level problems early in the design process while ensuring that all Multi-disciplinary Modeling the design requirements are met. Activate Activate allows users to model and simulate Learn more: provides its users with a standard set the combined system behavior of real-world altair.com/activate of predefined blocks that can easily be systems with support for multiple domains combined to model systems. such as Mechanical, Electrical, and more. 62 Physical component modeling of a hatch mechanism – Co-simulation of controller models Room temperature control system (Mechanical/Electrical modeling) with multi-body plant models with Modelica components

Hierarchical and Parametric Modeling These blocks can be extended by user-defined Script-based optimization: • Build hierarchical component-based Modelica blocks. Furthermore, users can provide • A powerful mechanism for solving general models of a real-world system using SPICE netlists to model electrical circuits. optimization problems where the cost 1D block diagram modeling libraries and constraints may be obtained from a • Mix signal-based and physical modeling Library Management combination of Activate simulation results blocks in the same model Easily create components and assemble custom and math scripts • When modeling large or complex applications. Use Activate’s library manager to systems, easily create super blocks by create and edit custom libraries. Activate also BOBYA Optimizer block: encapsulating multiple blocks in a diagram provides an IDE along with API functions for • This optimization block can be used directly into a single block users to further leverage library management. in a model and doesn't require any external calling function or link-up • Super blocks are modular, reusable, can Hybrid Simulator • Cascade multiple optimization blocks to be masked, and fundamentally behave Activate’s simulator provides users with formulate max-min and min-max problems like regular blocks allowing more flexibility several high-performance numerical solvers • Since a model can be hierarchical and that accurately and robustly solve dynamic Model Exchange and Co-simulation via parameters can be defined at different systems including continuous, discrete-time, Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) levels, Activate provides an 'all available and event-based behaviors. Activate supports FMI 2.0 standard for parameters' option which lets users both model exchange and co-simulation navigate in a diagram and get Solver Type Stiffness Solver Name of dynamic systems including the ability a report of all parameters that are to import and export FMUs (Functional known or defined at a current level Forward Euler Non-stiff Explicit Trapezoidal Mock-up Units). ODE Classical Runge Kutta Fixed Runge-Kutta Built-in Block-based Model Libraries step -size Co-simulation with Multi-body Models Altair Activate includes a large variety of Stiff Backward Euler The co-simulation interface lets users simulate predefined blocks available in an easy-to-use ODE Implicit Trapezoidal a complex system that includes a multi- library of palettes. Users can also create their body system (MBS) and one or more control own custom blocks in C or math scripts in OML CVODE-BDF-Functional CVODE-ADAMS subsystems. In order to effectively simulate Non-stiff and save them to new or existing libraries. Functional ODE the entire system, the MBS is simulated with a • Signal Generators • Activation DOPRI (Dormand-prince) multi-body simulation solver while the control • Signal Viewers Operations subsystem is simulated with Activate. Lsode • Signal Importers • Matrix Operations Varible CVODE-BDF-NEWTON step-size Stiff • Signal Exporters • Lookup Tables CVODE-ADAMS-NEWTON ODE Linearization • Signal Conversions • Ports RADAU-IIA for ODE Activate allows users to create linear models • Signal Properties • Buffers CPODE from Activate blocks by linearization. The • Math Operations • Bus Operations IDA • Dynamic • Optimization DAE RADAUV-IIA for DAE operating point can be computed either • Hybrid • Cosimulation DASKR by running the simulation at a given time • Routing • FlipFlops instant or by computing a steady-state point • Logical Operations • Custom Blocks Optimization by imposing constraints on inputs, outputs, Formulate optimization problems to improve states, and state derivatives. Physical Component Modeling the system parameters and design robust Using Modelica and SPICE control strategies with multiple options. Compiling Models Into Executable Code In addition to the signal-based blocks listed above, Activate supports code generation Activate comes with the Modelica standard library Graphical optimization tool: for system performance & IP protection. (MSL) – a collection of blocks describing the • The simplest way to formulate physical behavior of Electrical, Electromagnetic, and solve optimization problems Mechanical, and Thermal components. 63 Altair Compose® Math, Scripting, Data Processing, and Visualization

Altair Compose enables engineers, scientists, and product creators to efficiently perform calculations one at a time or grouped together in the form of scripts facilitating process automation. Compose also enables the analysis, processing, and visualization of data such as from CAE or test results. It is an interactive & unified programming environment for all types of math – including matrix analysis, differential equations, signal processing, control design, optimization, and much more.

Benefits Easy Engineering Data Access and Processing Rapid Algorithm Development Product Highlights Built-in suite of engineering calculations A comprehensive set of tools enables and Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) • High-level matrix-based interpreted rapid development of standard and data and result readers provide quick language for numerical computing custom computations. The matrix-based access to a large set of data formats for • Integrated development environment language, authoring, and debugging tools for authoring and debugging all pre and post-processing needs. Data can -- along with access to a broad set of math types of math including multi- also be exported to various CAE file formats. language support libraries and utilities -- cover a wide range of users' needs. Users can also explore • Built-in connectivity to pre/post- Capabilities process CAE data or test data multiple approaches and find solutions • Extensive math libraries: faster than with spreadsheets or traditional Powerful and Flexible Programming • Statistical data analysis programming languages such as C/C++. • Matrix based data structure • Matrix analysis • Fully interpreted • Differential equations Open, Compatible, • Compatible with industry standards • Signal processing Inter-operable Platform • Built-in and user-defined functions • Control design The multi-language environment of Compose • Literals, data types, strings, • Optimization enables the combination of the Open Matrix variables & assignments, indexing • Interactive 2D & 3D plotting Language (OML) with scripts written in TclTk operators, expressions & statements or Python. Since OML is not only easy to • Flow of control & looping use but also compatible with Octave and MATLAB®, Compose is a powerful platform • Interactive or batch-mode execution Learn more: to integrate knowledge formulated altair.com/compose in various programming languages.

64 Rich 2D & 3D data visualization Modern integrated development environment Variable browser with options to easily monitor with a powerful debugger and edit variable values during debugging

Integrated Development Environment Extensive Commands and Math Libraries Easy GUI Creation • A fully featured command window with • Elementary math • Differential • Tailor your scripts to your organization command completion, code editing, and • Logic operators equations • Add dialog boxes to build your own display print command outputs during • Linear algebra • Signal processing customized graphical user interfaces (GUIs) script execution from the editor allow • Vectors & matrices • Statistical analysis • Enables easy and intuitive re-usability for visual and interactive code inspections • System commands • Control design of your specialized utility programs during runtime • Time commands • Optimization • Allows experts to deploy many tools • Modern script editor with syntax • Trigonometry • CAE data readers to end users highlighting, smart indentation, commands • String operations • Enables flexibility and convenience collapsible sections including code folding, • Polynomial math • Plotting when providing program inputs bookmarking, searching and toggle • Calculus to display on/off line numbers • Script editor allows users to split the screen Data Visualization, Plotting and Reporting into multiple views for more interactive • Support for various 2D & 3D plots authoring and execution • Plot properties and attributes can be • Multi-language environment with support modified easily and interactively with for OML, Python, & Tcl/Tk context menus to set plot titles, labels, • Powerful debugger with options to easily axis labels, legends & tick mark labels monitor variable values via watch window, • Zoom and pan support track paths traced while executing scripts • Report generation via call stack window and display all breakpoints in the debugging session Connectivity via the breakpoints window Tools to read and extract data from CAE • Intuitive project browser with a hierarchical results, with especially tight connectivity structure of all the scripts, plots and to Altair HyperWorks™ matrices for easy navigation • File browser allows direct access to existing Open Matrix Language (OML) Interpreter program files on disk • Interpreter for enhanced interaction • Variable browser displays all the user- to support interruption of long scripts generated and global workspace variables • Provides an extension to the variable including name, value, type and scope. browser to support additional objects; Options to easily monitor variable values includes syntax highlighting and auto during debugging completion, and provides all the • Command history window not only displays debugging features all commands entered while programming but also enables quick execution with support for double-clicking on each command or drag/drop into the command window

65 Altair Embed® Visual Environment for Embedded Systems

Altair Embed is an intuitive graphical environment for model-based embedded development. Diagrams are automatically converted to highly-optimized and compact code, which is essential for low-cost microprocessors and high-speed sampling rates. The code can be verified, debugged, and tuned with off-line simulation before downloading it to the target microcontroller (MCU).

Benefits Affordable and Easily Configured Solution Product Highlights Embed comes in the basic configuration Rapid Development of Control Systems already with most of the tools needed Embed provides a complete tool chain for • Highly efficient diagram-to-code capability for embedded development including the development of embedded control • Visual real-time operating system state charts, target support, fixed-point systems covering Software-in-the-Loop, • Fast run time algorithms, efficient code generator, motor Processor-in-the-Loop, as well as • Low memory footprint control libraries, and a lot more. This results Hardware-in-the-Loop simulations. • Human readable code in an affordable and easy configurable • Interactive SIL, PIL, and HIL development environment. You can make changes to a control diagram, and • Parameter tuning while system is in operation compile and download it to the target MCU in

• Gaining system insight through data seconds. Then, while the system is operating, you Capabilities can interactively update the control parameters. logging, buffering, and digital scopes Diagram-to-Code • State charts Embed generates efficient and compact Using powerful data logging, buffering, and • Graphical editing of Finite State yet readable ANSI C code for discrete, Machines digital scoping blocks, you can gain insight continuous, and hybrid systems created • Simulation and code generation into the control algorithms deployed on using diagrams. • Scaled, Fixed-Point Algorithms the target MCU in real time. • Fixed-point block library For example, code generated for closed-loop • Auto-scaling No Hand-Coding Required motor control – including PI controller, digital • Fast target code Turning control diagrams into executable, real-time capable code used to require an output, PWM, and encoder peripherals – runs experienced embedded software developer. at 300KHz on a 150MHz F28335 MCU with a With Altair Embed’s code generator, a control memory footprint of 2095 bytes for code, 501 Learn more: design engineer can easily try out new bytes for initialized data, and 504 bytes for altair.com/embed algorithms on a target hardware without uninitialized data. the need for hand-coding. 66 Example of draining tank logic with state charts Example of digital power application

Embed allows easy integration of legacy State Charts Add-ons source code and easy portability to target Embed supports OMG UML 2.1 compliant hardware given the generated fixed-point graphical state chart editing, simulation and Embed/Digital Power Designer Provides a library of components and and floating-point code which, with code generation. Combined with a built-in subsystem models tailored to digital power automatic scaling, can be compiled on any C interpreter, this allows fast and reliable applications (including power converters, platform with target compiler. development of complex control applications. controllers, compensators, sources, and more).

Diagram semantics allow users to easily Scaled, Fixed-Point Algorithms The Fixed-Point block library lets you perform Embed/Comm configure execution of blocks using software/ Lets you model end-to-end communication hardware timers, interrupts and local/global simulation and efficient code-generation of scaled, fixed-point operations. systems at the signal or physical level. rates. Users also have the choice to use It provides fast and accurate solutions the highly efficient royalty-free scheduling Overflow and precision loss effects are for analog, digital, and mixed-mode scheme by Embed or to generate calls for an easily seen and corrected at simulation time. communication systems. external RTOS. Auto-scaling speeds fixed-point development, while in-line code generation creates fast Traceability between diagram and code target code. makes it highly intuitive and easy to work on large diagrams with high block counts Target Hardware Support and possibly multiple layers of hierarchy. Embed hardware agnostic code with abilities to also extend it for using Interactive Hardware-in-the-Loop target-specific blocks for any embedded Simulations targets. With the growing list of hardware In MCU-in-the-loop (MIL) simulation, the support, Embed currently supports plant model runs on the host computer micro-controllers from Texas Instruments in Embed while the control algorithm (C2000, MSP430/Concerto), Atmel (Atmega runs in real time on the target MCU. 328/2560/32u4) popularly used in the Arduino, and Generic MCU support to Real-time communication between the extend to other silicon families. target MCU and Embed is performed via a JTAG hotlink. Continue to use Embed’s GUI Embed also provides device driver blocks while you tune parameters and monitor that include analog ADC, ePWM, eCAP (event real-time data transfer. Embed also supports capture), SPI, SCI (RS232 serial), I2C, digital a PIL-synchronous communication mode GPIO, QEP (quadrature encoder), and CAN 2.0. that runs the target in lock step with the simulation, allowing easy verification of embedded algorithms.

67 Altair Evolve™ All-in-one Industrial Design Tool

Altair Evolve allows designers to develop forms faster, using either Windows or Mac OS X. It enables the capture of an initial sketch, exploration of styling alternatives, and visualization of products with realistic renderings generated in real time. Evolve provides organic surface modeling, parametric solid controls, and polygonal modeling with NURBS-based surfaces and solids and a unique Construction Tree™ history feature. It frees designers from the constraints of traditional CAD tools, while allowing the export of digital models required by others in the product development process.

Benefits Capabilities Product Highlights Model Freely Best-in-class Construction History Created by designers for designers, Evolve • Unlimited construction history provides • Hybrid modeler with organic surface provides free form surfacing, solid modeling, real-time updates when modifications are modeling, solid surfacing, and and polygonal modeling in a single package. made to parameters or surfaces polygonal modeling This allows the best approach to be applied • Browse the graphic representation of the • Unlimited construction history to each aspect of a design. Evolve allows construction history to identify and select provides real-time updates users to mix and match modeling techniques source objects within the history tree with when modifications are made on the fly without any additional plug-ins. immediate reconstruction to parameters or surfaces • Manipulate both the parameters and • Real-time photo realistic rendering Make Changes Effortlessly points of all objects freely. Never forget • Available on both Windows and Mac The Construction Tree history allows users the steps involved in construction the to edit a point or a parameter and then entire tree is saved inside the file and is let Evolve automatically update the entire accessible at any time model. Typically surface modelers require the • Thanks to the possibility to freely recreation of an entire model to accommodate manipulate your models, you can easily a dimensional change. experiment with new shapes and improve your creativity Render Beautifully Quickly test and evaluate designs, materials, Advanced NURBS Modeling or environments in real-time while developing Evolve uses NURBS (Non Uniform Rational your model. Evolve offers users the ability to B-Splines) as its geometry type. This curve Learn more: create photo-realistic images and animation and surface definition method offers the altair.com/evolve with a built-in renderer. greatest flexibility and precision. NURBS

68 Set of glasses modeled and rendered in Evolve Bike with optimized frame Diamond ring rendering

are capable of representing any desired • Beside a section planes direction, the user Direct Import Export To shape, both analytic and free form, and can specify either the number of planes, • 3ds • 3ds their algorithms are extremely fast and or the distance between planes • ACIS • ACIS SAT stable. Full NURBS-based modeling, • Curve from PointCloud - Creates a curve • Adobe Illustrator • DXF construction history, and the most from a point cloud. This tool creates a • CATIA (V4 & V5 & • IGES advanced modeling tools make Evolve curve starting from a selected point and V6) • Keyshot a matchless tool for designers. approximating the points ordered by • DWG • LightWave minimal distance • DXF • Maya ASCII Polygonal Modeling and • H3D • OBJ Subdivision Surfaces Real-Time Photo Realistic Rendering • I-DEAS • Parasolid Evolve also features an advanced polygonal Take advantage of a truly comprehensive • IGES • Rhinoceros modeler with support of n-side polygons. It rendering system integrating all industry- • Inventor • STEP is possible to create and extrude polygons, leading rendering techniques. The most • NX • STL split faces and edges, refine, decimate, and efficient memory management functions, • OBJ • VDAFS perform many other operations. The unique unlimited output resolution, as well as • Parasolid • VRML implementation of interactive subdivision multi-threaded and multi-processor • Point cloud surfaces with construction history gives the renderings makes Evolve the perfect tool for • Pro/E user maximum power for refinement and generating photo realistic images. Real-time • Rhinoceros smoothing of polygonal meshes. rendering further improves interactivity • SolidWorks during the review and visualization phases • STEP Reverse Engineering of design. • STL • Fit points - Create a surface from a point • VDAFS cloud data set Animation • PointCloud from object - Create a PointCloud Take your design presentations to the next given a surface level by creating photo realistic animations. • Planar Clouds from PointCloud – Creates Create videos or Quicktime VR movies to a specified number of points clouds lying communicate complex ideas, or import H3D on parallel planes from a given points cloud. files to produce stunning simulations. This command can be useful to simplify a points cloud derived from 3D scanning

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69 Altair SmartSight™ Advanced Data Analytics Solution

SmartSight is a cloud-based analytics platform for embedded, big data, and IoT applications. Architected for an optimized self-service user experience, the platform simplifies data visualization, exploration, and analysis.

Freedom to explore and share information is prevalent in every aspect of life from the workplace to how we learn and play. Today we have access and connectivity to limitless resources and information. SmartSight pulls this information together for anyone to discover and share data-driven insights.

True Cloud Based Analytics IoT Connections Multi-tenant architecture. Zero software footprint. Connections to web service URL to fetch data packets or Get started in minutes. MQTT service to receive push notifications. Dashboards update in real-time.

Self-service User Experience Search Based Dashboarding For both novices and BI professionals. Drag & drop GUI, User can enter a text string to automatically build a data previews and user workflows to speed up discovery. dashboard on indexed dimensions of a data source.

Analytical Data Engine Included Alerts & Notifications In-memory columnar data engine allows fast on-the- Define alerts to be delivered to emails recipients when fly data analysis. Bring your own engine to leverage a value is outside a user defined threshold. existing data warehouse investments.

End-to-End Security Encryption Auto ML & Forecasting Data-in-flight is SSL encrypted. Data-at-Rest is secured Build ML models without the need for coding. Analyze by multiple layers of industry accepted protocols. data against multiple predictive models and pick the ‘best’ model for predicting/scoring new data.

Learn more at altair.com/smartsight 70 Register Online and Choose Easily Connect to Your Data STEP 1 STEP 2 the Right Plan for You Sources and Engines

Personal Relational Local/Cloud • Single user license with full charting capabilities • IBM DB2 • CSV • Reports can be shared via embeddable links • Microsoft SQL Server • Excel • Upgrade available to connect to databases and • MonetDB • Google Drive expanded data storage • MySQL • OneDrive • Oracle • OneDrive for Business • PostgreSQL Enterprise* • Flexible and based on usage needs Web Service Big Data/Time Series • Connects to popular databases and data engines • MQTT • Amazon DynamoDB • Full report export and data refresh scheduling • Web Services • Amazon Redshift *On premises deployment options available • Web Socket • Google BigQuery • Hadoop Spark • HP Vertica • TimeScale DB

STEP 3 Create Interactive STEP 4 Publish and Share Reports and Dashboards

Embed Embed an interactive chart, page, or full report into any software application, web-page, or portal.

Share Share charts and dashboards with colleagues and user defined groups through email and public links.

Export Easily export a single page or full report to a PDF or PPT format.

Schedule Schedule an automated data refresh or report export to be delivered to specific email recipients. Why SmartSight

No Hidden Fees, Everyone is an Author Multiple Data Source Report Mashups Unlimited reports & dashboards. No per report, Easily link/join multiple data sources. dashboard, or data source fees. Author/Viewer Create dynamic dashboards and charts containing profiles managed on a by-project basis. data from multiple sources.

Flexible SaaS / On-premises Licensing Sparse Navigation Fully web-based, zero foot print deployment Automatically identifies/hides analysis where data SaaS or on-premises. Patented floating licensing is not present speeding exploration and analysis. model. Pool size base on concurrent user access.

Intuitive UI, Data to Dashboard in minutes Easy Embedding in Any Application Drag & drop UI, create & manipulate charts freely. Automated embed link generation. Fast & simplified Free-form exploration for novices & BI professionals. integration with web applications & 3rd party solutions. Data sources can be synced in real-time.

Learn more at altair.com/smartsight 71 Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Physical and Virtual CAE Appliance

Altair HyperWorks Unlimited is a fully managed, HPC appliance for CAE available in both physical and virtual formats, offering unlimited use of all Altair software. Altair’s CAE cloud appliances address the unique needs of enterprises by simplifying access to an HPC infrastructure at an affordable cost. This allows engineers and scientists access to hardware, software, and HPC support that enables robust product designs.

HyperWorks Unlimited Altair is the only company to offer best-in- class application software and HPC workload Today engineering teams need to deliver Product Highlights management tools, within an industry leading more robust and innovative products licensing and business model to fit growing • Pre-configured and ready to use with processes and solutions at an ever simulation needs. on day one increasing pace. This requires the exploration • Simplified IT administration of multiple scenarios and is limited by the • Unlimited use of all Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Virtual Appliance: ability to mobilize resources quickly. Firms HyperWorks™ solver applications A CAE cloud solution, bringing software, need on-demand access to HPC and data • Altair PBS Works™ suite to create the platform, and infrastructure as a service to management that can be supported with ideal user experience Altair customers within a single and intuitive minimal IT burden. • Full global support from Altair portal. It leverages Altair’s patented licensing • Bring your own license model system, providing access to a selection of the • 3rd party ISV applications supported Powered by Altair’s enterprise software, HyperWorks products and a modern, scalable through Bring Your Own License model PBS Works, HyperWorks Unlimited HPC infrastructure through a secure and appliances provide users with a secure efficient web-based platform. platform (either on-premise or off-premise) to run, monitor and manage their simulations Benefits and meet their computing needs. Both HyperWorks Unlimited Virtual Appliance HyperWorks Unlimited Physical Appliance: and HyperWorks Unlimited Physical An on-premise HPC solution that is optimized Appliance allows companies to expand CAE for CAE with properly configured hardware computing capacity and quickly utilize HPC so Learn more: and software, offering unlimited use of all that they can intelligently manage resources altair.com/hwul Altair software within the appliance. efficiently.

72 Achieve robust designs with the Productized HPC for companies of all sizes Power HPC solutions for massive innovative Altair HyperWorks licensing model virtual exploration

HyperWorks Unlimited delivers a unique • Third Party Solver Support: Open “It’s an incredible product that gives our value to organizations by providing the architecture allows for third party solvers engineers access to all the software they hardware, off-the-shelf software and support to be fully integrated for a monthly fee on need, fully configured and ready to use.” needed to integrate engineering processes. a “bring your own license" model. – Mubea

Essentially, Altair is productizing HPC for Who Needs HyperWorks 88% of participants in the HyperWorks any company to leverage so that this type Unlimited? Unlimited trial rated their experience positive of capability is no longer only possible or extremely positive. for large organizations. Both HyperWorks Unlimited Physical Appliance and HyperWorks Unlimited Virtual “Altair’s cloud solutions, namely HyperWorks • Robust Design Capabilities: Includes Appliance are ideal solutions for companies of Unlimited Virtual Appliance, allow us to unlimited HyperWorks Units for usage all sizes and provide a competitive advantage seamlessly scale our CAE needs through within the appliance for massive virtual to users in a broad range of industries. a simple application aware, web browser exploration. gateway. We use HyperWorks on the cloud • Small firms can now perform engineering exactly the same way we would use it on our • Productized HPC: Delivered as a and simulation once only available to OEMs desktops, with the added ability of setting up turnkey system, loaded with HyperWorks without the need for extensive capital and large runs directly on the HPC infrastructure applications plus PBS Works for workload IT. HPC capabilities are democratized so that and post-processing all the runs on the server management for simplified deployment. everyone can engage in DOE and become side, eliminating the need for downloading Installation takes hours vs. days or weeks. more competitive in a matter of minutes. large result files. – LeanNova Only Altair delivers both HPC workload management and simulation applications • Medium businesses can now afford to 100% of HyperWorks Unlimited trial — nobody understands the needs of HPC expand their HPC resources because they are participants would recommend HyperWorks users better. no longer constrained by solver licenses. Unlimited to a colleague or friend.

• Powerful HPC Solutions: Integration of • Larger organizations with dispersed regional “For companies like ours looking to do large- the Altair HyperStudy™ design exploration engineering centers can quickly add new and scale exploration, the ease of instantaneously engine with the PBS Works suite lets additional capacity with local support at the accessing CAE and HPC without the massive engineers vary designs to perform Design department level who otherwise would have integration expense and large deployment of Experiments (DOE) and stochastic and no local HPC compute resources or support. time is extremely beneficial. Altair is uniquely numerical optimization studies then submit eliminating the barriers to HPC with its the runs directly to the HPC system. The What Users Are Saying technologies and business model on the PBS Works suite provides modern and cloud." 75% of users that employed HyperWorks – LeanNova intuitive framework for: Unlimited computing resources in a trial - Resource provisioning found it useful to their project. - Workload management and scheduling - Security and licensing framework 100% were able to complete a equal or - Enabled remote visualization, greater amount of work when compared to notification, and collaboration their previous computing environment. "This is the way HPC should be for all • Innovative Licensing Model: Leverage CAE engineers – this simple, this powerful, Altair’s licensing system to access this reliable.”– Stanley Black & Decker HyperWorks products on a secure HPC infrastructure. Particularly relevant for 100% of users that operated HyperWorks compute-intensive solvers for structural, Unlimited in a trial found the computing electromagnetics, fluid dynamics analysis performance to be the same or faster than and optimization. their previous computing environment.

73 Altair PBS Works™ HPC Workload Management Suite

Altair PBS Works is the market leader in comprehensive, secure workload management for high-performance computing (HPC) environments. The integrated PBS Works suite simplifies the HPC user experience and improves resource utilization and ROI. Altair is the only company to offer best-in-class application software, HPC workload management tools, cloud computing capabilities, and an industry-leading licensing and business model to fit growing simulation needs.

Benefits The PBS Works suite simplifies and streamlines HPC resource management Product Highlights Architected for exascale computing and providing the backbone for Altair’s CAE with powerful policy-based job scheduling, user-friendly web portals for job submission PBS Works is the preferred solution appliances and cloud offerings, the PBS for many of the planet’s largest, most Works suite is focused on speed, scale, and remote visualization, and deep analytics and reporting. With PBS Works, users can complex clusters and supercomputers and resilience. Proven for over 20 years optimize system utilization and improve — and is the choice for smaller at thousands of global sites, PBS Works organizations needing HPC solutions application performance. makes HPC easier in industries including that are easy to adopt and use. automotive, aerospace, academia, energy, HPC Solutions electronic design automation, defense, The industry-leading PBS Works suite Altair delivers market-leading software for weather, and more. includes a comprehensive set of tools for: both IT managers and design engineers. • Workload management The industry-leading feature set includes • Advanced HPC usability Companies who have invested in HPC Green Provisioning™ for power-aware • Asset monitoring resources to optimize their solver usage scheduling, market-leading security, GPU • Dependency management need to be sure their HPC assets will operate and co-processor scheduling, scalability • End-to-end hardware emulation reliably around the clock. Just as importantly, to millions of jobs a day, and the ability the systems need to be easy to use, manage, to work efficiently with massive datasets. and scale while still being cost-effective. Engineered to make HPC easy, fast, and reliable, Altair’s HPC solutions include: PBS Works addresses these challenges with the most comprehensive suite of integrated Cloud Computing Learn more: Altair’s cloud solutions, HyperWorks Unlimited, altair.com/pbsworks HPC workload management products available from a single vendor. are state-of-the art cloud appliances available

74 PBS Professional is a fast, powerful workload manager Access is a job submission and monitoring portal for Control gives administrators tools to designed to boost HPC productivity engineers and researchers manage clusters and cloud appliances in both physical and virtual formats, offering Advanced HPC Usability • Altair SAO enables visualization and unlimited use of all Altair software. • Altair Access™ remote visualization and analysis of global software inventories and Altair’s CAE cloud appliances address the collaboration capabilities bring access utilization rates across facilities, divisions, unique needs of enterprises by simplifying to expensive, high-end 3D visualization departments, and users. access to an HPC infrastructure at an affordable datacenter hardware right to the user via cost. This gives engineers and scientists access desktop and mobile. Mission-Critical Dependency Management to hardware, software, and HPC support that • Altair Control™ is an easy-to-use web • Altair FlowTracer™ includes tracing enables robust product designs. application for monitoring and managing techniques to analyze flows and identify the jobs and nodes in an HPC environment, with dependencies and inherent parallelism built Industry-Leading Workload Management seamless cloud bursting capabilities and into today’s complex flows, optimizing use • Altair PBS Professional™ is a fast, powerful advanced analytics to support data-driven of compute resources. workload manager designed to improve planning and decision-making. productivity, optimize utilization and End-to-End Hardware Emulation efficiency, and simplify administration for Asset Monitoring for Operational Impact • Altair Hero™ is a vendor-independent HPC clusters, clouds, and supercomputers. • Altair Monitor™ is a - solution that addresses all aspects • Altair Accelerator™ is an enterprise-grade tracking tool that provides both real-time of emulation flow, including design job scheduler designed for distributed HPC and historical software license utilization compilation, emulator selection, and environments. Accelerator is capable of data for multi-site environments, for software and regression tests. managing compute infrastructures from accurate planning and license cost small dedicated server farms to complex optimization. Supported Platforms distributed HPC environments. • Altair Allocator™ enables software license PBS Works products support a multitude • Altair Accelerator Plus™ enables greater sharing among multiple job-scheduling of platforms and have been integrated with throughput, better license and resource servers spread across multiple geographical hundreds of end-user applications across utilization, and more flexible scheduler sites and business units, optimizing license all industries — including leading commercial usage models. utilization. applications, open-source software, and proprietary codes.

Cloud bursting allows accessibility to a public Altair SAO analyzes and visualizes Altair’s physical and virtual cloud solutions cloud during peak demand. software use company wide simplify access to HPC

75 Capabilities Chart Altair HyperWorks™ offers the broadest range of solutions to simulate and optimize products’ performance in areas including structural linear and nonlinear analyses, system-level optimization, fluid and multi-body dynamics simulation, electromagnetic phenomena, and multiphysics analysis. Additional optimization and analysis capabilities are available to all the Altair HyperWorks customers through the Altair Partner Alliance (APA).

Solvers & Optimization Solvers & Optimization Cont.

HyperWorks APA HyperWorks APA Structures Casting Linear Static Moldfilling Normal Modes Mapping Linear Buckling RTM Noise and Vibrations Welding Impact Dynamics Forging Nonlinear Statics 3D Printing Nonlinear Dynamics Design Lifecycle Management Nonlinear Materials Coupled Solvers Contact Fluid-Structure Composites Fluid-Multi-Body Fatigue Thermal-Structure Digital Materials Electromagnetic-Thermal User-defined Functions Electromagnetic-Vibro-Acoustics Multi-body Simulation Electromagnetic-Controls Basic Multi-body-Controls Contact Optimization Vehicle Dynamics Topology Nonlinear Flexible Bodies Composites User-defined Functions & Customization Size, Shape Hydrodynamics Free Shape Fluid Flow Multi-disciplinary Navier-Strokes Uncertainty Quantification Incompressible Compressible Concept & Industrial Design Turbulence Multi-phase HyperWorks APA Electronics Cooling Industrial Design Combustion Photorealistic Rendering Lattice-Boltzmann Polygonal Modeling SPH Solid Parametric Modeling Thermal Organic Surface Modeling Steady-State Construction History Transient Apple OSX Support Nonlinear Transient Animation Printed Circuit Boards Drafting Radiation Early Manufacturing Electromagnetics (Product / Process) Feasibility Motor Design Stamping / Forging Electro-/Magneto-Statics Casting Low-frequency Metal Extrusion Induction Heating Polymer Extrusion High-frequency Moldfilling Network planning Additive Manufacturing Wave Propagation Concept Design Touchscreen Geometry Manufacturing Model Setup Stamping Statics / Buckling / Thermal Extrusion Structural Topology Optimization

76 Concept & Industrial Design Cont. Internet of Things

HyperWorks APA HyperWorks APA Topography Optimization Model Based Design Motion Analysis Integrated with CAD Matrix-based Math Language Motion Topology Optimization Multi-language Programming Environment Ergonomics Controls Seamless Transfer for Downstream Engineering Modelica Functional Mock-up Interface Modeling & Visualization Code Generation 1D-3D System Design HyperWorks APA Compatibility with Legacy Data CAE Pre-Processing Spice Solver Interfaces Data Analytics Direct CAD Access Data Source Connectivity CAD Design Change & Parameterization Cloud & On-premise Deployment Meshing Technology Self Service ETL & Data Prep PDM Interoperability Ease of Use and Visual Appeal Large CAD Assembly Management Deep Charting & Dashboarding CAE Model Management Real Time & IoT Apps Power Train Modeling Publishing & Collaboration FE Morphing Embeddability, APIs & SDKs Meshess Modeling Mobility FE Setup Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics Automation Amplification Optimization Setup Social / Unstructured Data Automotive Crash & Safety IoT Platform Pre-Processing Data Collection & Storage Crash Solver Interfaces Device Management FE Setup & Connections App Development Model Validation Integration with Other IT Systems Dummy Positioning Seatbelt Routing High Performance Computing Airbag Folding Human Models HyperWorks Other Specialized Tools On-Premises and Cloud Plotting Engineering Apps via Saas Dedicated Plotting Environment HPC Access Portals (Web, Desktop, Mobile) Reporting 3D Remote Visualization Publishing HPC Appliance Management Performance HPC Job Scheduling (Clusters & Cloud Bursting) Math Library Workload & License Analytics Interfaces Open Source Middleware Option Scripting & Customization Digital Transformation Results Visualization Digital Assets Management Solver Interfaces Collaboration Reporting & Publishing Data Management Large Model Handling / Performance Project Management Unified Environment for Pre & Post Advanced Visualization Plotting & Video Overlay Scripting & Customization

77 Altair University

Training Program

Altair’s Training Program provides our corporate customers different options for consuming training content; instructor-led, virtual instructor-led, and eLearning. Altair.com provides access to training schedules and course descriptions for instructor-led and virtual instructor-led classes. eLearning is accessed from the Altair Resource Library allowing customers to learn, as needed, at their own pace.

Academic Program

The Altair Academic Program, found at altairuniversity.com, contains a variety of resources for students and teachers featuring best practices on how to use Altair HyperWorks. Visit this section to learn more about the free HyperWorks Student Edition, Learning & Certification Program, free e-Books, and join the community by visiting the Moderated Support Forum. Altair University provides the latest news about user meetings, international student challenges, sponsoring opportunities for student teams, course material for teachers, and much more!

For all your training needs, visit: altair.com/learn

78 Join the Community

Our goal at Altair has always been to provide the best technology at the highest value to our customers, supporting them in any possible way. That's why, in addition to the traditional support channels, we keep expanding our on-line presence, creating a vast community of HyperWorks customers and encouraging discussions and interactions about our products.

Altair Blog Altair's Corporate Blog

At Altair, we take a collaborative approach to solving diverse and challenging problems through the strategic application of technology and engineering expertise. Developing and applying simulation technology to synthesize and optimize product development processes for improved business performance is our specialty.

From computer-aided engineering to high performance computing, from industrial design to cloud analytics, Altair is leading the charge to advance the frontiers of knowledge.

Altair's Corporate Blog: blog.altair.com

HyperWorks Insider Monthly HyperWorks Newsletter

The HyperWorks Insider features CAE technology and industry trends as well as the latest software news, tips & tricks, events, webinars and more.

We are pleased to announce the new and improved format of the HyperWorks Insider newsletter! The new layout provides fast access to current and archived content and allows you to easily share articles with colleagues as well as social media sites.

HyperWorks Insider: altair.com/hyperworks-insider

79 About Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR)

Altair is a global technology company that provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of product development, high performance computing (HPC) and data intelligence. Altair enables organizations across broad industry segments to compete more effectively in a connected world while creating a more sustainable future. Learn more at altair.com

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