Altair HyperWorks

OptiStruct is an advanced structural analysis solver equipped with powerful features for:

• Linear and nonlinear structural simulation
• Dynamic and fatigue analysis
• Topology optimization and design refinement
• Multi-attribute optimization workflows

OptiStruct’s “One Model, One Solver” methodology eliminates the necessity for separate implicit and explicit analyses, allowing engineers to simultaneously validate performance and optimize design. This results in components that are lighter, stronger, and more economical—essential for automotive manufacturing and performance engineering.

Inspire makes simulation accessible to both engineers and designers by offering advanced design, simulation, and optimization capabilities through a highly intuitive interface. The main features include:

• Quick geometry modeling and concept design
• Simulation for structural, fluid, and motion analysis
• Generative and topology optimization techniques
• Insights regarding manufacturability and process feasibility
• AI guidance integrated with Altair CoPilot

Inspire allows users to evaluate multiple design alternatives early in the process, ensuring that products are optimized for performance as well as manufacturing feasibility.

Altair SimSolid represents a revolutionary simulation and structural analysis tool tailored for designers, engineers, and analysts. By removing the need for geometry preparation and meshing, it allows for the validation of structural performance within minutes on fully featured CAD assemblies, thereby saving time and minimizing errors.

In contrast to conventional FEA tools, SimSolid operates directly with complete CAD models, facilitating the rapid assessment of intricate designs without the need for modifications. This accelerates the simulation process, enabling quicker iterations and early validation. Its robust, swift, and precise simulation capabilities empower engineers to make faster decisions and expedite product development. By enabling the exploration of numerous design scenarios with high precision, SimSolid empowers teams to deliver quality products to market more quickly and maintain a competitive edge.

• High-quality mesh generation that boosts simulation accuracy
• Optimization processes that minimize material and production costs
• Built-in automation to eliminate repetitive tasks and accelerate simulation cycles
• Support for multiphysics analysis (structural, thermal, fluid, and dynamics)
• Scalable workflows from concept to validation and manufacturing

By integrating HyperMesh, OptiStruct, and Inspire into their engineering processes, automotive suppliers can improve product quality, reduce development cycles, and confidently meet stringent industry standards.

Altair offers industry-leading engineering analysis and optimization tools, from simulation-driven design concepts to detailed virtual product validation, and from simplified modeling workflows to advanced, high-fidelity model building.

• Simulation-driven design
• Structural optimization
• Modeling and visualization
• Composite materials
• Linear and nonlinear analysis
• Discrete element modeling
• Crash and impact
• Noise and vibration
• Durability

• Lightweighting & structural optimization
• Crash, safety & durability analysis
• External aerodynamics & aeroacoustics
• Manufacturing simulation & process optimization
• Electromagnetic compatibility (EMI/EMC) & antenna design
• Electronics reliability & PCB simulation
• Thermal management & cooling simulation
• Particle simulation & bulk material handling
• Systems modeling & digital twin development
• AI-powered design exploration & physics predictions
• Material modeling & failure prediction

Altair offers a complete line of tools to support your project. From detailed component analysis to full system performance, Altair provides a range of scalable solvers and robust pre- and post-processing software for CFD.

• General-purpose CFD
• Aerodynamics and aeroacoustics
• Particle-based fluid dynamics
• Discrete element modeling
• Thermo-fluid systems
• Electronics cooling

Altair provides an industry-leading portfolio of multiphysics-enabled software to simulate a wide range of interacting physical models, including fluid-structure interaction (FSI), flexible bodies, aeroacoustics, and thermomechanical simulation.

• Mechanical systems and controls
• Advanced electromagnetic systems
• Fluid-structure interaction (FSI)
• Thermomechanical simulation
• Multi-disciplinary system simulation
• Discrete element modeling
• Multi-disciplinary design exploration
• Massive virtual exploration

• Aerospace & Defense
• Automotive
• Consumer Goods
• Electronics
• Energy
• Government Agencies
• Heavy Equipment
• Industrial Machinery
• Marine
• Process Manufacturing
• Rail
• Semiconductors
• Technology

• Accelerate product development and improve sustainability with solutions for design optimization, prototyping reduction, manufacturing process optimization, and lightweighting.
• Optimize e-motor design, ensure safe inverter-motor interactions, and maximize EV range with electric vehicle design solutions.
• Overcome connectivity and compatibility challenges in connected vehicles with solutions for optimizing electronic boards, simulating electromagnetic behavior, ensuring EMC compliance, and providing data analysis.
• Analyze vehicle and business performance, enhance supply chain management, plan maintenance, prevent equipment failure, and transform the warranty process with data analytics, machine learning tools, and optimization expertise.

Automotive suppliers face particular engineering challenges, including:

• Complex assembly processes that involve various disciplines
• Demanding standards for performance, safety, and durability
• The need to lighten components while ensuring strength
• Tight deadlines and cost limitations

Altair's simulation technologies allow users to virtually test airframes, engines, and aircraft interiors, while our HPC solutions accelerate design analysis and optimization. Altair's AI capabilities drive intelligent decision making so we can create a safer, more connected, and more sustainable future.

• AI-driven advanced manufacturing solutions give businesses the ability to optimize manufacturing processes to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Advanced simulation and data analytics capabilities help defense organizations optimize their designs for performance and safety while reducing development time and costs.
• Purpose-built tools for a broad spectrum of HPC and cloud workloads, plus efficient, high-throughput computing for EDA applications—and trusted to manage, optimize, and measure mission-critical aerospace and defense workloads.

Altair’s simulation-CAE-driven design approach creates high-quality, reliable products while reducing costs and product cycle time. Simulation allows rapid investigation and analysis of product performance, factoring in fatigue and impact loads, and offering countermeasures for improvement.

• Maximize equipment productivity, reliability, safety, and comfort including speed and efficiency, compatibility and durability, and operator environment.
• Sustainable, connected, and smarter products including electric drivetrains, agribots, warehouse innovation, and smart mining.
• Construction and farming.
• Optimize product performance, gain visibility into the in-service life of a product, know when and where to perform predictive maintenance, and how to extend a product’s remaining useful life (RUL).

The primary goal of any machine building project is to achieve perfectly running production of high-quality products. Altair’s multiphysics simulation and model-based development provide a deeper understanding of increasingly complex industrial machines to mitigate the risks of product line development and customer implementation.

• Virtual prototyping to accelerate development by optimizing operational efficiency, eliminating vibrations, and reducing machine noise.
• Virtual commissioning, combining controls development with simulated real-world behavior of the machine, reduces the time invested at a customer facility.
• Process optimization with AI allows machines to learn to optimize themselves, correcting path errors due to workpiece changes, varying manufacturing tolerances, or mechanical aging of the system.
• Material cost reduction through lightweight design reduces production, processing, and maintenance costs while also cutting takt times.

Altair helps companies employ CAE as early as possible in the process to drive decision making and deliver designs on time, on target, and on budget. Digitalization has also emerged as a key driver for innovation in railways. It provides significant opportunities to streamline operations, improve asset reliability, and enhance passenger (or freight customer) experience while reducing costs.

• Maximize reliability, availability, and desirability through optimized and robust designs, improved driver and passenger environments, and tools for mechanical analysis.
• Optimize connectivity and operational costs for improved network connectivity, electric drivetrain performance, reduce downtime, and extend useful life with digital twins.

Whether in oil and gas, coal, renewable energy, nuclear power, or distribution, our customers use Altair to simulate everything from geomechanics to composite wind turbine blades and to analyze structural safety to network loads.

• Optimize energy production and distribution.
• Increase network efficiency and optimize the energy efficiency of power generation and energy storage systems.
• Ensure multiphysics reliability and robustness with our structural simulation software portfolio.
• Streamline aerodynamics and thermal performance with CFD solvers.