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MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DEVELOPMENT FREES ENGINEERING RESOURCES TO FOCUS ON INNOVATION AND ROBUSTNESS
02 January 2007 - NAFEMS
| Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of technology and services that strengthen client innovation and decision-making, today announced the public release of Altair HyperWorks 8.0, The Engineering Framework for Product Design. The integrated suite of advanced computer-aided engineering software tools delivers advanced technology and functionality to increase efficiency and reduce cycle time in the development of innovative, robust products. |
“As manufacturers look for new ways to improve product development efficiency and gain a competitive advantage, CAE is playing an increasingly more important role,” said Jeff Brennan, vice president of the Altair HyperWorks business unit. “This software release, the largest in our company’s history, continues our tradition of delivering open-architecture, best-in-class technology that empowers decision-making and leverages our customers’ investments in simulation.“ The new products and functionality in HyperWorks 8.0 create the broadest simulation technology suite for PLM. This release targets three main areas to aid manufacturers in bringing innovative products to market faster: it provides an integrated multi-disciplinary framework, enables a CAE-driven design process and improves simulation turnaround time. Integrated, Multi-Disciplinary Framework
CAE is becoming multi-disciplinary, as once-separated analysis disciplines and activities begin to merge. HyperWorks 8.0 broadens application scope, while remaining committed to an open-systems environment. This environment provides clients both flexibility and robust solutions to solve complex problems. Advancements in this release include:
• NEW! Multi-body dynamics solver solution. With the release of 8.0, Altair introduces robust and comprehensive motion analysis software for mechanical system simulation that includes advanced contact modeling, user sub-routines and full-support flexible bodies.
• Combined FEA/MBD analysis solution. Fully integrated motion solution capabilities are now available within OptiStruct/Analysis for coupled flexible- and rigid-body analysis through a single input deck generated from HyperMesh.
• Performance data management solution. Easily implemented within existing PDM and ERP deployments, Altair Data Manager is a flexible data management solution to manage, share and control engineering simulation and test data at both the user and enterprise levels.
• NEW! 3D plotting environment for performance data analysis. HyperGraph 3D is a new 3D-plotting environment for creating 3D plots, such as waterfall, surface and 3D line data, with a rich toolset for querying information, 3D section-cutting and more.
• Unified environment for manufacturing simulation. Manufacturing Solutions is a unified virtual manufacturing environment to simulate stamping, extrusion, molding, forging and friction stir welding processes within a single graphical user interface. CAE-Driven Design Process
Altair is a leader in developing new CAE methods and tools that allow simulation to lead the design process. HyperWorks 8.0 introduces new technology for conceptual design, model morphing and structural optimization that further positions simulation as a driver of design. It does this by addressing product performance and manufacturability earlier in the design cycle.
• Model morphing. A completely new approach to mesh and geometry morphing that simplifies mesh-based design changes for shell and solid models, as well as automates the creation of design variables for size and shape optimization.
• Stress-constrained topology and topography optimization. Altair is first-to-market with stress-constrained topology and topography optimization in OptiStruct to generate the most efficient conceptual designs for stress-critical structures, such as that of aircraft.
• “Free-shape” and “free-size” optimization. OptiStruct furthers its leadership position in structural optimization with the addition of “free-shape” optimization for automated boundary shape variation with minimal user input, and “free-size” optimization to develop robust variable thickness design solutions, composite laminates and "shear-web"-type structures.
• Frequency-response optimization. Topology, topography, shape and size optimization capabilities are now available with OptiStruct’s existing frequency-response solution types for improving the dynamic behavior of structures. Analysis Cycle Time Reduction
The most time-consuming activities for CAE engineering departments continue to be modeling, visualization and execution of design iterations. HyperWorks 8.0 improves both end-user and organizational-level efficiency with advancements that include:
• Enhanced user interface for modeling efficiency. A newly designed HyperMesh graphical user interface, highly tuned for modeling efficiency and improved workflow, simplifies the modeling process, while providing a new and interactive experience for all user levels and modeling types.
• Solid modeling. HyperMesh delivers increased solid modeling functionality with the addition of solid geometric entities. This increased functionality is combined with a higher level of user control and interaction to enable fast, high-quality tetra- and hexa-meshing of complex solid models.
• 64-bit Windows support Global delivery of HyperWorks 8.0 will take place through Q1 2007, and will be completed in two stages. First-stage distribution is currently available for electronic download and includes the commercial release of HyperMesh, OptiStruct, MotionSolve, HyperGraph, HyperGraph 3D, HyperStudy, Altair Data Manager and Manufacturing Solutions. Second-stage distribution, planned for Q1 2007, will be available electronically, as well as by way of CD and DVD media formats. This service release will include all of the previously released applications, the commercial release of HyperView and MotionView, 64-bit Linux support, and the recently acquired RADIOSS technology suite licensed under HyperWorks Units. Current customers can download HyperWorks 8.0 and the Release Notes, which provide a complete list of new products, features and functionality, by visiting Altair’s Client Center portal at www.altairhyperworks.com/hw8 For more information on the HyperWorks 8.0 release, training schedules and to request a WebEx demonstration, please visit www.altairhyperworks.com/hw8
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NAFEMS is a not for profit organisation aimed at promoting best practices and also fostering education and awareness in the engineering analysis community. In line with its objectives to promote the effective use of simulation technologies, NAFEMS is continually seeking to create awareness of new analysis methodologies, deliver education & training, and stimulate the adoption of best practices and standards by offering a platform for continuous professional development.By the late 1970s and early 1980s, as computing power became more widely available, increasingly industry was starting to solve practical engineering problems using finite element analysis techniques. There was however considerable concern that the accuracy of the methods, and software implementations, required to be verified in order to allow the results to be effectively used. Following extensive lobbying, by industry and academia, the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) set up, and funded, a project within the National Engineering Laboratory (NEL), based in East Kilbride, Scotland, to investigate the issues. As a result the National Agency for Finite Element Methods and Standards, quickly shortened to the acronym NAFEMS, was founded as a special interest group in 1983 with a specific objective namely: "To promote the safe and reliable use of finite element and related technology" In order to keep engineers abreast of the latest developments in the Analysis World the quarterly magazine BENCHmark was launched by NAFEMS in July 1987. After seven years of seed funding by the UK government, and with the support of its industrial members, the decision was taken to launch NAFEMS Ltd as an independent not-for-profit company, owned by its member's in 1990. The company celebrated its 10th Anniversary in 2000, and has developed both the scope of its technology focus and its membership well beyond the original vision. Today NAFEMS and its members are involved in many different types of engineering simulation covering both products and processes. Membership continues to grow, now exceeding 700 corporate members in over 30 different countries. Steering groups have been set up in the UK, France, Germany, and the USA to co-ordinate local activities and interaction with members. |
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