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A Platform for Innovation™ altairhyperworks.com Simulate Everything Altair® HyperWorks® is the most comprehensive, open architecture CAE simulation platform in the industry, offering the best technologies to design and optimize high performance, weight efficient and innovative products. HyperWorks includes best-in-class modeling, linear and nonlinear analysis, structural optimization, fluid and multi-body dynamics simulation, electromagnetics and antenna placement, model- based development, visualization and data management solutions. Drive Innovation Over the last two decades, Altair has pioneered simulation-driven design to generate innovative design solutions for its clients, developing and implementing intelligent simulation technologies that allows users to significantly reduce products weight, saving cost, fuel and C02 emissions. Save Money Altair has made its products available to customers using a patented license management system, which allows metered usage of the entire suite of products. This value-based licensing model has been extended to partner products, providing a dynamic and on-demand platform that now also includes cloud-based solutions. 2 Table of Contents Simulation Modeling & Vertical and Cloud & Technology Visualization Design Solutions HPC Solutions 06. OptiStruct® 26. HyperMesh® 38. HyperForm® 58. solidThinking Envision™ 08. RADIOSS® 28. HyperView® 40. solidThinking Click2Form™ 60. Simulation Manager™ 10. AcuSolve® 30. HyperGraph® 42. solidThinking Click2Extrude™ 62. HyperWorks Unlimited® 12. nanoFluidX™ 32. HyperCrash® 44. solidThinking Click2Cast® 64. PBS Works™ 14. FEKO® 34. SimLab® 46. HyperWorks VWT™ 16. WinProp™ 36. MotionView® 48. solidThinking Inspire® 18. Flux™ 50. solidThinking Evolve® 20. Multiscale Designer™ 52. solidThinking Compose™ 22. HyperStudy® 54. solidThinking Activate™ 24. MotionSolve® 56. solidThinking Embed™ “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 Traditional software offerings operate usage ‘token’ systems which stack applications. The HyperWorks software products are accessed via a patented licensing system which allows multiple applications to be opened on the desktop and the ‘tokens’ leveled to the maximum token value product. The HyperWorks licensing system delivers significant cost savings compared against the industry standard stacking systems. In addition, by leveling the tokens to the maximum product value, the company only pays for incremental usage. Stacking Product 3 Product 2 Product 1 Number of HWU used Traditional Software Licensing Product 1 Product 2 Product 3 For multiple users a plateau in licensing costs occurs. This is a function of the leveling and the fact the company is effectively paying only for incremental usage. Traditional Software Licensing HyperWorks Licensing Cost Savings Licensing Costs Number of Software Products Used ► Visit altairhyperworks.com to learn more “If we didn’t have 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 effectively extends the HyperWorks Platform from more than 20 internally developed solutions to upwards of 60 applications with the addition of new partner applications. Customers can invoke these third-party applications at no incremental cost using their existing HyperWorks licenses. Customers benefit from unmatched flexibility and access, resulting in maximum software utilization, productivity and ROI. Our Current Solution Library Includes: • Additive Manufacturing • Durability • Structural Analysis • Collaboration and Automation • Electromagnetics • System Level Design • Composites • Manufacturing • Vehicle Dynamics • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) • Material Management • Crash and Safety • Noise, Vibration & Harshness (NVH) • Design • Optimization ► For more details, visit altairhyperworks.com/APA “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 OptiStruct® Structural Analysis and Optimization 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. 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 Award-Winning Optimization Innovative optimization technology: Product Highlights Fast and Accurate Solver Technology • • Most advanced solver for NVH analysis: For over 20 years, OptiStruct has lead the OptiStruct supports the most advanced development of innovative optimization • The most advanced solver for technology with many first-to-market features and results output necessary for technologies such as stress and fatigue NVH analysis efficient and insightful noise, vibration and based topology optimization, topology- harshness (NVH) analyses and diagnostics. • Full featured solver for driven design for 3D printed lattice • Robust solver for nonlinear analysis nonlinear analysis structures, and technologies to design and powertrain durability: OptiStruct and optimize advanced materials such • Highly parallelized solver has grown to support a comprehensive as composites. range of physics for powertrain analysis. • 20-year legacy of award-winning • Optimization-enabled solutions: This includes solutions for heat transfer, OptiStruct provides the most structural optimization technology bolt and gasket modeling, hyperelastic comprehensive library of performance materials, and efficient contact algorithms. • Advanced Laminated Composite criteria and manufacturing constraints • Highly parallelized solver: Through allowing the needed flexibility to formulate Optimization Capability methods such as domain decomposition, the widest range of optimization problems. OptiStruct can be executed on hundreds of cores providing a high degree of scalability. Capabilities • Seamless integration into existing Integrated Fast and Large Scale processes: Integrated in HyperWorks, Eigenvalue Solver: A built-in, standard OptiStruct can help significantly reduce feature of OptiStruct in an Automated Multi-level Learn more: corporate spending on competitive solver Sub-structuring Eigen Solver (AMSES) that altairhyperworks.com/optistruct technology, while providing superior can rapidly calculate thousands of modes analysis workflows. with millions of degrees of freedom. 6 Complete solution for powertrain durability Full-vehicle noise and vibration analysis Topology optimization for lattice structures Advanced NVH Analysis: OptiStruct provides • Free-shape optimization: OptiStruct’s Noise and Vibrations unique and advanced functionality for NVH proprietary technique for non-parametric • Normal modes analysis for real analysis including one-step TPA (Transfer shape optimization automatically and complex eigenvalue analysis Path Analysis), Powerflow analysis, model generates shape variables and determines • Direct and modal frequency reduction techniques (CMS and CDS super optimal shape contours based on design response analysis elements), design sensitivities, and an ERP requirements. This relieves users from the • Random response analysis (Equivalent Radiated Power) design criterion task of defining shape variables and allows • Response spectrum analysis to optimize structures for NVH. for greater flexibility for design improvements. • Direct and modal transient response analysis Free-shape optimization is very effective in • Preloading using nonlinear results for buckling, Creating Design Concepts reducing high-stress concentrations. frequency response, and transient analysis • Topology optimization: OptiStruct • Rotor dynamics uses topology optimization to generate Design and Optimization of Laminate • Coupled fluid-structure (NVH) analysis innovative concept design proposals. Composites: A unique 3-phase process • AMSES large scale eigenvalue solver OptiStruct generates an optimal design has been implemented in OptiStruct to aid • Fast large scale modal solver (FASTFR) proposal based on a user-defined in the design and optimization of laminate • Result output at peak response design space, performance targets, composites. The process is based on a frequencies (PEAKOUT) and manufacturing constraints. natural and easy-to-use ply based modeling • One-step transfer path analysis (PFPATH) Topology optimization can be applied approach. This also facilitates incorporating • Radiated sound analysis to 1D, 2D and 3D