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ALTAIR SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION

Alessandro Amorese – Account Technical Team - Apr 26, 2023
1985 12,000+
Founded & Headquartered Customers
in Troy, MI U.S. Globally
$470M 86
FY20 Offices in
Revenue 25 Countries
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Engineers, Scientists, Altair and Partner
and Creative Thinkers Software Products
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Broad Solutions Portfolio
Data Analytics & AI Physics Simulation Design, Modeling & Visualization
Internet of Things High-performance Cloud Computing Altair Partner Alliance (APA)
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12,000+ Customers Worldwide

Automotive Aerospace Civil Education Energy Financial
Engineering Services
Government Heavy Industrial Life & Earth Material Technology

& Defense Rail Goods Sciences Suppliers
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Where Simulation, HPC, and AI Converge

Democratizing Technology to Deliver More Power and Drive Better Decisions
HIGH-PERFORMANCE
COMPUTING
SIMULATION
As the pace of innovation accelerates,

Altair is driving the future of smart,
connected everything through
ARTIFICIAL
the convergence of simulation,
HPC, and AI solutions.
INTELLIGENCE
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Trends in Simulation
• Simulation- and AI-driven design to synthesize visually
appealing, high-performing, and manufacturable products
• Multi-disciplinary optimization to consider all aspects

of performance objectives
• Mixed multi-level simulation from 0D to 3D and

machine learning models to effect decisions
throughout product life-cycles
• Smart product development including

design, device management, application
development, data analytics, and
edge orchestration
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Simulate Events
Optimization Systems Nonlinear Electromagnetics Multiphysics Manufacturing
Fluids Crash & Impact
Multiphysics Analysis and Optimization

ALTAIR UNIVERSITY
Altair University
https://altairuniversity.com/
Altair Academic Program

https://altairuniversity.com/
• Provide students with the best

resources and tools
• Many free resources for learning
at your pace
• Thesis Project
• Bachelor degree
• Master degree
• Ph.D.
Efficiently connect Theory to Practical Aspects
Target group
• Absolute beginners
Vision
• Support Teaching
• Learn basics at home
Learning
• >28 eLearning courses (reading, videos,
quizzes)
• Courses may be customized (for free)
https://certification.altairuniversity.com/
→ Also used by many commercial users

Teaching Packages
• Finite Element Analysis
• Structural Optimization
• Composite Analysis and Optimization
• Explicit Finite Element Analysis
• Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis
• Thermal Analysis
• Dynamic Analysis
• EM Simulation
• E-Motor Design
• System Modeling and Control
Systems.
• Multibody Sistems
• Optimization
Altair Students Ambassador

… working together is success
Ambassador Program → reduce the burden on course instructors
An exciting incentive program awards the Ambassadors activities
Role designed to enhance the entrepreneurial spirit
https://altairuniversity.com/university-ambassador-program/
Student Team Competitions

Clean Snowmobile
Formula SAE Baja SAE
Challenge
Global Solar
Shell Eco-Marathon Proto Challenge
Challenge
Sailing & Kitesurf Icarus
Euroskeleton
competition Plane competition
Motostudent
MicroSatellite Asme Efest event
challenge
• Free licenses (full version)

• Training
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and more ...
Student Team Competitions
• Italian supported teams

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• Icarus & Policumbent
• Firenze Race Team
• UniNa Corse
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• Scuderia Tor Vergata
• Race Up Padova
• UniPR Racing Team
• E-Agle Uni Trento Racing Team
• UniBS Motor Sport
ALTAIR FOR AEROSPACE
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Traditional Sizing Process

Current Aerospace Design Map
External Loads
Local Stress
Analysis -
Internal
Analytical
Global Finite Loads Methods
Element Model
(GFEM) Internal
Loads
Local Stress
DMU/C
Analysis –
AD
Detailed FEM
Global Local
Key Aspects – Global FEM

• GFEM "core" team is relatively small and the models are built mainly with (semi)automated process and
assembled with strict ID rules.
• In most of the cases model build is not full CAD based
but more on master geometry and structural element
position.
• GFEM results (loads, FBD, etc.) on thousands of load
cases are used then by almost the stress community
for sizing.
• Model verification and update is mainly linked to load
loop variation and stiffness adjustment.
• The topology remains basically untouched but
properties vary (to reflect as well geometry update).
• Check / Comparison (model and results based) is crucial.
Key Aspects – Free Body Diagram FBD

• Perform free body diagrams to understand load paths and export free body loads to detailed models of
interest as boundary conditions (BCs) within a sub-modeling scheme
Key Aspects – Detailed FEM

• DFEM models are based on CAD inputs. They are complex in set up and need to be created within short
time.
• Their topology need to reflect CAD variation and update.
• Many models are created with respect to different A/C sections.
Engineering Time spent: GFEM vs. DFEM

Altair for Aerospace

Collaboration Modeling & Visualization
PLM, CAD, Mat FE + Composite modeling
HyperMesh Hypermesh Optimization
Topology
Composite, Fail Safe
OptiStruct
Certification
Stress toolbox
Extract Loads
Motion Solve
Composites
Material Development, Verification tools
MultiScale Designer, ESAComp
Manufacturing & Design

ALM, Generative Design, Rendering
Inspire Print, Inspire Studio
Ditching Electromagnetism Aerodynamics

RADIOSS Antanna placement, electromechanism External loads, aeroelasticity
Flux, FEKO AcuSolve
Altair HyperMesh Aerospace Workflow

HyperMesh offers engineers a workflow where they can build a concept model move onto global load models
and then get into the global FEM (GFEM) and detailed FEM (DFEM).
The workflow is based on CAE Master Model Organization and is designed to make it easy to share
information between the models as well as other common industry tools like product lifecycle management
(PLM), product data management (PDM) and CAD systems.
HyperWorks Solutions are the standard in Airbus Group

Future Aerospace Design Map
External Loads
A detailed FEM,
Analytical coupled with
optimization, is
Methods used to do the
design
Detailed FEM
DMU/C
Optimization
AD
Global Local
Simulation Driven Design

Master Model based on C123 Optimization Process
C1 C2
C3
Design Space Model ` Low Fidelity Mixed Beam / Shell Model
(No Joints or Connections) (Idealised Joints and Connections) Higher Fidelity Shell Model
(Manufacturable Joints & Connections)
Optimization: Configuration Optimization: Rapid sizing
Optimization: Detail sizing
Configuration Rapid Sizing Detail Sizing

But technologies don’t stop!

Last year Altair acquired SimSolid, the game-changing simulation technology for designers,
engineers, and analysts. It eliminates geometry preparation and meshing, allowing you to perform
structural analyses on fully featured CAD assemblies within minutes.
Combining it with Altair Inspire, a powerful and easy-to-use Generative Design/Topology
Optimization software and rapid simulation solution for design engineers, they can enhance the
concept development process by enabling Simulation-Driven Design
SIMULATION DRIVEN DESIGN
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Simulation Driven Design: Inspire Platform
Simulation Driven Design & Manufacturing

The industry’s most powerful and intuitive simulation solution for design engineers to create and
investigate structurally efficient and manufacturable concepts quickly and easily.
SIMULATE
GENERATE ANALYZE
MANUFACTURING
OPTIMAL CONCEPTS COMPLEX STRUCTURES
PROCESSES
Generative Design for all processes Structural Analysis Traditional and additive manufacturing
Easy loads extraction Dynamics Motion of assemblies Quick feasibility assessment
Hybrid Modeling and fast rendering Customizable Materials Process-driven workflows

Many capabilities and manufacturing simulations

Unique Interface
Explore different solutions

Multiple Scenarios and Trade-off studies
Stamping
ALM
Extrusion
Design Process for ALM

Symbiosis of Optimization and AM in the Industry
Baseline CAD Conceptual Optimization Design

Interpretation
Design
evalutation
Geometry
Geometry creation
Process validation
Final Product Simulation
Altair Inspire Workflow
Build Job Preparation

Setup manufacturing
machine
Analyze process
simulation results and
improve the
initial design Final Design
CAD & Rendering
Design Manufacturing
Requirements – Loads extraction

Concept design Optimization & Interpretation

Manufacturing Simulations
Additive Extrusion Stamping

Casting
Manufacturing
CAD & Rendering

AEROSPACE
SPACE
AUTOMOTIVE
Optimization Driven Design
“Additive manufacturing
releases us from constraints
and unlocks the creativity of
engineers.”
MOTORCYCLE
Altair Simsolid
A new paradigm for simulation
Altair SimSolid introduces a new technology

that operates on original, un-simplified CAD geometry directly,
and does not create a mesh
The Simsolid REVOLUTION
Design Faster Complexity is No Problem Boost Productivity
Speed and Scalability Large Assemblies Accurate Results

Results in Minutes Complex Parts Simple Workflow
Expand what Is possible to solve
SIMSOLID enables analysis that often are classic

not possible with traditional FEA FEM
Simulation Effort
SimSolid
Geometry Complexity, Parts & Connections

Open to everybody
Lattice Structures Optimization

Lattice structures are natural from Topology Results
Classic ALM redesign process
Define desing Space Topology Results Geometry Interpretation
Different diameters
Void Lattice Solid

Additive and Organic Structures Analysis

How to simulate this complex shapes? Unleash the potential of Altair SimSolid
3
min solve
on CPU
Linear static on Additive Manufacturing

optimized component
MULTI-PHYSICS
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AIRCRAFT RADOME
CHARACTERIZATION AND
OPTIMIZATION VIA
MULTIPHYSICS SIMULATION
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The Nose Cone Radome

Design Case Study: Commercial Aircraft Nose Cone

Radome Design Challenges

Electromagnetic Model: Full radar scanning operation
Very fast simulation: 5minutes / Radar position

Optimizing the lightning strip positions
without radome
From antenna design to full scanning operation taking into account
complex radome environement
with radome
Aerodynamic Model: Pressure field

Bird Strike
Bird Strike
Radioss
Design Tradeoffs
Optimization Workflow
Optimization
Response Surfaces
AI Models, Machine Learning Models
Optimization Results
DISCOVER CONTINUOUSLY.
ADVANCE INFINITELY.
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ALTAIR SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION

Broad Solutions Portfolio

Data Analytics & AI Physics Simulation Design, Modeling & Visualization

Internet of Things High-performance Cloud Computing Altair Partner Alliance (APA)

12,000+ Customers Worldwide

Government Heavy Industrial Life & Earth Material Technology

Where Simulation, HPC, and AI Converge

As the pace of innovation accelerates,

• Multi-disciplinary optimization to consider all aspects

• Mixed multi-level simulation from 0D to 3D and

• Smart product development including

Fluids Crash & Impact

Multiphysics Analysis and Optimization

Altair Academic Program

• Provide students with the best

Efficiently connect Theory to Practical Aspects

→ Also used by many commercial users

Altair Students Ambassador

Student Team Competitions

• Free licenses (full version)

Student Team Competitions

• Italian supported teams

ALTAIR FOR AEROSPACE

Traditional Sizing Process

Current Aerospace Design Map

Key Aspects – Global FEM

Key Aspects – Free Body Diagram FBD

Key Aspects – Detailed FEM

Engineering Time spent: GFEM vs. DFEM

Altair for Aerospace

Manufacturing & Design

Ditching Electromagnetism Aerodynamics

Altair HyperMesh Aerospace Workflow

HyperWorks Solutions are the standard in Airbus Group

Future Aerospace Design Map

Simulation Driven Design

Master Model based on C123 Optimization Process

Configuration Rapid Sizing Detail Sizing

But technologies don’t stop!

SIMULATION DRIVEN DESIGN

Simulation Driven Design: Inspire Platform

Simulation Driven Design & Manufacturing

Easy loads extraction Dynamics Motion of assemblies Quick feasibility assessment

Hybrid Modeling and fast rendering Customizable Materials Process-driven workflows

Many capabilities and manufacturing simulations

Explore different solutions

Design Process for ALM

Baseline CAD Conceptual Optimization Design

Altair Inspire Workflow

Build Job Preparation

Requirements – Loads extraction

Concept design Optimization & Interpretation

Additive Extrusion Stamping

CAD & Rendering

Optimization Driven Design

A new paradigm for simulation

Altair SimSolid introduces a new technology

The Simsolid REVOLUTION

Design Faster Complexity is No Problem Boost Productivity

Speed and Scalability Large Assemblies Accurate Results

Expand what Is possible to solve

SIMSOLID enables analysis that often are classic