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Altair Conference to focus on new simulation methods for automotive and aerospace sectors

ATC is the annual event for engineering professionals and top-level industry leaders in the arenas of product design, and advanced manufacturing.

1st May 2015

Innovation in Textiles
 |  Troy, MI

Transport/​Aerospace, Industrial

ATC is the annual event for engineering professionals and top-level industry leaders in the arenas of product design, advanced manufacturing, applied physics and high-performance computing, organised by Altair, a leading developer of simulation technology to synthesize and optimize designs, and processes.

A wide-ranging series of key research papers will be presented at the conference, each of which responds to emerging trends and capabilities in manufacturing and computer simulation. Among the many presentations are:

Structural Component Design Optimization for Additive Manufacture

Professor in Practice, University of Texas at Arlington, Consulting Engineer, Optimal Structures, LLC, Robert M. Taylor, will demonstrate how additive manufacturing removes many of the constraints on product design, enabling all types of products to be much more efficiently produced and as much as 30% lighter.

He will explain how the advanced capabilities of Altair HyperWorks® tools for designing structural topologies to minimize weight while maximizing performance.

Cutting-Edge Optimization Methods for the Aerospace Industry

Structural Analysis Engineer David Bowen, of Boeing, will describe how the new MultiModel Optimization capabilities in Altair's OptiStruct software can overcome the problems associated with attempting to optimize structures and components across multiple configurations. The result is a common component optimization process.

Forming Simulation of Woven Composite Fibers and Its Influence on Crash Performance

Altair Senior Director of Industry Solutions Subir Roy will show how simulation of composite plies made from woven fibres can be carried out with Altair's RADIOSS solver, mapping the variance in fibre angles and translating those differences into crash-performance results.

Pedestrian-Impact Simulation Process with HyperWorks

Crash Safety Engineer Youn Park, from Ford Motor Company, discusses how the HyperWorks software suite can be applied to carry out multiple analyses with a large number of target points for pedestrian impact safety, providing a much more efficient approach to the concern than manual or semi-automatic methods.

Programme

Breakout sessions will delve further into such issues as lead-time reduction, process automation, performance optimization and lightweight design.

These presentations will be kicked-off by keynote remarks from two automotive industry leaders: Mike Whitens, Director, Vehicle and Enterprise Science, Research, Ford Motor Company; and Kevin Kerrigan, Senior Vice President, Automotive Office, Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

Other thought leaders offering their perspectives on design and optimization in the aerospace and defense industries at the conference are Franck Mouriaux, General Manager, Structures, RUAG Space; Ken Dudley, Senior Researcher, NASA Langley Research Center; and Stewart (Denny) Moore, Principal Engineer, Applied Mechanics, General Dynamics/Electric Boat.

Use of simulation

Altair Chairman and CEO, James R. Scapa, will highlight Altair’s plans and innovations for continuing to advance the use of simulation in the design of products, packaging, and systems for businesses around the world.

“Discussion emerging from the great span of topics offered at the ATC makes this premier conference exceptionally valuable to designers and engineers,” he commented. “The conference provides solutions for those who are attempting to manage innovation challenges in the fields of transportation, aerospace, architecture, electronics, scientific research and many other fields where simulation-driven design, data analysis and optimization are critical.”

“Our goal for the ATC conference series is to support the professional engineering community discover news ways to overcome conventional barriers to design and manufacturing leveraging simulation to create stronger and lighter products that can be manufactured in new ways.”

www.altair.com

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