Paul Boughton
Altair Engineering is releasing Altair Hyperworks 10.0, an even more powerful version of its popular integrated computer-aided engineering (CAE) software suite. This new release builds upon the breadth of solver solutions and computation speed of Radioss, launches several "first-to-market" design optimisation advancements and introduces a new mathematical analysis software technology.
Altair Hyperworks vice president Jeffrey M Brennan states: "Hyperworks 10.0 lets engineers be engineers. Altair's goal for modelling, analysis and visualisation is to bring a high level of automation to these processes, allowing engineers to have more time to study, improve and optimise their designs and apply their problem-solving skills to address today's complex design challenges. From a business perspective, this allows staff resources to invest more time on value-added activities that can have an immediate impact on both efficiency and innovation."
Radioss 10.0, an implicit and explicit solver technology for linear, nonlinear and crashworthiness problems, delivers an even broader solution scope and new element formulations that enable analyses to be completed up to seven times faster than before. Radioss solver advancements include: expanded solutions for noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) and heat-transfer analyses; a new 'fast parabolic' tetrahedral element for impact and explicit analyses that improves analysis throughput by up to three times faster without sacrificing results accuracy; new parallelised solutions for linear statics, linear buckling and direct frequency response analyses that increase computational speeds by four to seven times; a new multi-domain analysis algorithm that allows large crash models to be analysed two to three times faster; and new implicit and explicit composites analysis capabilities to support lightweight design initiatives.
Motionsolve 10.0, Hyperworks' modern mechanical system simulation system, introduces co-simulation capabilities with Simulink control systems and also with DSHplus hydraulic/pneumatic systems by Fluidon, a Hyperworks Enabled Partner. Co-simulation allows analysis of the coupled interaction between mechanical systems with other systems to better understand system level behaviour. Also, with the 10.0 release, Motionsolve now calculates more than 90 different Suspension Design Factors (SDF).
Dr Uwe Schramm, chief technology officer for Hyperworks, comments: "Hyperworks' finite element and motion analysis solvers, Radioss and Motionsolve, span the most popular and demanding solution types while delivering benchmarked accuracy, speed and cost-effective scalability that are required today."
Altair says Hyperworks' optimisation products, Optistruct and Hyperstudy, introduce first-to-market structural optimisation innovations that include: optimisation for combined structural and multi-body dynamics problems; a reliability-based module for design optimisation that also provides improved data mining, evaluation and rating modules; optimisation for fatigue life and damage considerations; and new acoustic optimisation and combined thermal/mechanical optimisation.
Another new feature in Hyperworks 10.0 is Hypermath, a general-purpose numerical computing environment that allows customers to develop and perform custom mathematical operations on various types of data, including data associated with CAE pre- and post-processing. This new software technology includes a powerful and flexible programming language, comprehensive maths and utility libraries, an integrated code development environment, data visualisation and direct support of common data formats. Hypermath works seamlessly with the suite's design optimization and process automation tools, as well as third-party applications with command line support, to provide faster design direction and improved decision making.
Hypermesh, Altair's flagship product for finite element pre-processing, includes several new algorithms for tetrahedral, hexahedral, 'mesh flow' and mid-surface meshing. In addition to meshing efficiencies, other enhancements include the ability to view one-dimensional elements as 3D objects to visually verify modelling information for accuracy, and new multi-directional morphing functionality that allows finite element models to be smoothly morphed or 'fit' to a surface or group of nodes.
Hyperview 10.0 includes visualisation speed enhancements and new post-processing capabilities for: polar plots; advanced super-positioning; and envelope tracing capabilities to quickly identify or locate a significant load step or simulation that contributes to the max, min, or extreme condition
For more information, visit www.altairhyperworks.com
Altair Hyperworks vice president Jeffrey M Brennan states: "Hyperworks 10.0 lets engineers be engineers. Altair's goal for modelling, analysis and visualisation is to bring a high level of automation to these processes, allowing engineers to have more time to study, improve and optimise their designs and apply their problem-solving skills to address today's complex design challenges. From a business perspective, this allows staff resources to invest more time on value-added activities that can have an immediate impact on both efficiency and innovation."
Radioss 10.0, an implicit and explicit solver technology for linear, nonlinear and crashworthiness problems, delivers an even broader solution scope and new element formulations that enable analyses to be completed up to seven times faster than before. Radioss solver advancements include: expanded solutions for noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) and heat-transfer analyses; a new 'fast parabolic' tetrahedral element for impact and explicit analyses that improves analysis throughput by up to three times faster without sacrificing results accuracy; new parallelised solutions for linear statics, linear buckling and direct frequency response analyses that increase computational speeds by four to seven times; a new multi-domain analysis algorithm that allows large crash models to be analysed two to three times faster; and new implicit and explicit composites analysis capabilities to support lightweight design initiatives.
Motionsolve 10.0, Hyperworks' modern mechanical system simulation system, introduces co-simulation capabilities with Simulink control systems and also with DSHplus hydraulic/pneumatic systems by Fluidon, a Hyperworks Enabled Partner. Co-simulation allows analysis of the coupled interaction between mechanical systems with other systems to better understand system level behaviour. Also, with the 10.0 release, Motionsolve now calculates more than 90 different Suspension Design Factors (SDF).
Dr Uwe Schramm, chief technology officer for Hyperworks, comments: "Hyperworks' finite element and motion analysis solvers, Radioss and Motionsolve, span the most popular and demanding solution types while delivering benchmarked accuracy, speed and cost-effective scalability that are required today."
Altair says Hyperworks' optimisation products, Optistruct and Hyperstudy, introduce first-to-market structural optimisation innovations that include: optimisation for combined structural and multi-body dynamics problems; a reliability-based module for design optimisation that also provides improved data mining, evaluation and rating modules; optimisation for fatigue life and damage considerations; and new acoustic optimisation and combined thermal/mechanical optimisation.
Another new feature in Hyperworks 10.0 is Hypermath, a general-purpose numerical computing environment that allows customers to develop and perform custom mathematical operations on various types of data, including data associated with CAE pre- and post-processing. This new software technology includes a powerful and flexible programming language, comprehensive maths and utility libraries, an integrated code development environment, data visualisation and direct support of common data formats. Hypermath works seamlessly with the suite's design optimization and process automation tools, as well as third-party applications with command line support, to provide faster design direction and improved decision making.
Hypermesh, Altair's flagship product for finite element pre-processing, includes several new algorithms for tetrahedral, hexahedral, 'mesh flow' and mid-surface meshing. In addition to meshing efficiencies, other enhancements include the ability to view one-dimensional elements as 3D objects to visually verify modelling information for accuracy, and new multi-directional morphing functionality that allows finite element models to be smoothly morphed or 'fit' to a surface or group of nodes.
Hyperview 10.0 includes visualisation speed enhancements and new post-processing capabilities for: polar plots; advanced super-positioning; and envelope tracing capabilities to quickly identify or locate a significant load step or simulation that contributes to the max, min, or extreme condition
For more information, visit www.altairhyperworks.com
