COST-EFFECTIVE OPTIMIZATION FOR

ANISOGRID STRUCTURES

ANISOGRID concept saves weight, reduces costs, and improves

performance of load bearing structures in a wide range of sectors.

The next disruptive technology for weight reduction is
anisogrid concept (diagrid), but it requires optimization
to exploit all its potential and avoid material wastage in
basic forms as panels, cones, or cylinders.
Available commercial software for anisogrid
optimization relies on Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
and costly manual or semi-automated protocols.
“Using FEA for optimizing
anisogrid structures is like using a
sledgehammer to crack nuts.”
Instead FEA, ANISOPTER employs
rapid mathematical formulas to
simulate millions of configurations
and guarantee the lightest fulfilling specifications.

Despite anisogrid structures were ANISOPTER* is a dedicated web server for the
discovered by the Russian affordable sizing of anisogrid structures.
architect and engineer Vladimir
Shukhov one century ago, there  From 10 to 40% weight reduction in comparison
only exist a few remarkable tower with commercial alternatives.
examples: Moscow broadcasting  Drastic savings in design and optimization costs,
(left, 160 m) and electricity time, and computational resources.
transport towers (right, 128 m).  Easy to use and interactive.
Only very recently aerospace  Software as a Service (SaaS)
industry has brought back to live this nearly forgotten Web server, no installation
concept to radically improve modern rockets: or configuration issues,
ready for all devices!

is a Spanish SME specialized in the

development of tailored software
solutions for a diversified portfolio of clients. We
have been recently awarded with a SME Instrument
Phase I grant to assess anisopter.com feasibility
using real market data and feedback from industry.

Anisogrid interstages are from 2 (aluminium) to 4 (carbon) Please, feel free to request a free license code to test
times lighter than thin-walled monocoques and from 10% the a beta version at info@anisopter.com
(aluminium) to 200% (carbon) than isogrids. *Current Technology Readiness Level is 6.

CONTACT: José Ramón López-Blanco (PhD) at IQFR-CSIC lab 316 (+34) 91 5619400 (#961316) info@anisopter.com