Altair Engineering
Altair Engineering – Suite of Solutions for CAE, Data Analytics & IoT
DesignTech Systems is Business Partner of Altair Engineering in India and Singapore for their Suite of Solutions for CAE, Data Analytics & IoT. They include an integrated suite of solutions spanning:.
They include an integrated suite of CAE tools spanning:
- Finite Element Modelling and Solver Interfacing
- Physics Simulations
- Concept Generation and Optimization
- Visualization, Reporting and Collaboration
- Process Automation and Data Management
- Manufacturing Process Simulation
- Data Analytics
- Internet of Things & HPC
3D geometric models have become the foundation for advanced numerical analysis methods, including kinematic analysis, kinetic analysis, and finite-element methods for stress, fluid, magnetic, and thermal systems. Altair Engineering is the industry leader providing analysis and optimization solutions for product desgin and development. The current range of Altair’s software in this domain includes RADIOSS, AcuSolve, OptiStruct, HyperStudy, MotionSolve, HyperForm and HyperXtrude. Each software offers unique insights to improve the overall performance of a design / product.
In India, one of the leading distributors for RADIOSS, AcuSolve, OptiStruct, HyperStudy, MotionSolve, HyperForm and HyperXtrude are DesignTech Systems.
Click on a link below to learn more about each software.
Structural Analysis and Optimization
OptiStruct from Altair is a contemporary structural analysis solver that tackles both linear and nonlinear simulation under static and dynamic loadings. This proven software is the most used solution for structural design and optimization in varied industries. Industrial structures have various parameters. Altair OptiStruct helps engineers and designers optimize these parameters like strength, durability and NVH. This in turn helps the team develop innovative, lightweight, and structurally efficient designs.
Product Highlights
- The most advanced solver for NVH analysis
- Full featured solver for nonlinear analysis
- Highly parallelized solver
- 20-year legacy of award-winning structural optimization technology
- Advanced Laminated Composite Optimization Capability
Crash, Safety & Impact
Altair Radioss is a leading structural analysis solver that focuses on non-linear problems under dynamic loadings. What separates it from other solvers is its scalability, quality and robustness. It even offers features for multi-physics simulation and advanced materials such as composites. Radioss is very popular in all industrial sectors across the world as it improves the sturdiness, safety, and manufacturability of structural designs.
Product Highlights
- Best scalability for large, highly non-linear structural simulations
- Most complete material and rupture libraries
- Unique feature for accurate airbag simulations
- Rich multiphysics capabilities
- Wide offer of FE Safety models, dummies, barriers, and impactors
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Altair AcuSolve is a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tool with powerful features. It allows simulations involving flow, heat transfer, turbulence, and non-Newtonian materials. The tool’s robust and scalable solver technology provides users with a full range of physical models. The solver validates these physical models accurately on fully unstructured meshes. This in turn ensures that the team can concentrate more time on exploring designs and less time building meshes.
Product Highlights
- Efficient and flexible workflow
- Full set of physical models for flow, turbulence, immiscible multiphase and heat transfer simulations
- Accurate and stable even on highly skewed meshes
- Fast and efficient solutions for both transient and steady-state simulations
- Parallel scalability demonstrated on thousands of computing cores
- Advanced multi-physics capabilities including rigid body and flexible body coupling with Altair’s solvers as well as third party applications
High Frequency Electromagnetics and Antenna Design
Altair Feko is a well known electromagnetic simulation software. It uses a blend of multiple frequency and time domain techniques to deliver true hybridization. This helps enable the efficient analysis of a broad spectrum of electromagnetic problems mainly related to antenna design and placement, scattering, radar cross section (RCS) and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), including electromagnetic pulses (EMP), lightning effects, high intensity radiated fields (HIRF) and radiation hazard.
Product Highlights
- State-of-the art simulation tool for antenna design and placement, and RCS
- EMC analysis, including emissions, immunity, and shielding effectiveness
- Wide set of hybridized methods to solve large and complex problems
- Specialized tools, including windscreen antennas, arrays, cable modeling, and CMA
- HPC-enabled efficient, reliable, and accurate solvers
Wave Propagation and Radio Network Planning
This is a very comprehensive suite of tools in the realm of wireless propagation and radio network planning. Altair WinProp finds applications in a wide range of fields – from satellite to terrestrial and from rural via urban to indoor radio links. The innovative wave propagation models of Altair WinProp combine accuracy with short computation time.
Product Highlights
- Innovative, either empirical or ray optical/deterministic wave propagation models combining high accuracy and short computation times
- Wide range of scenarios and map data supported, even allowing combination of different scenarios for hybrid analyses
- Network planning modules available for most standards (cellular incl. LTE and beyond, W-LAN, etc.)
- The flexible Altair WinProp API allows the integration of the wave propagation models and network planning modules into other software tools
Low Frequency Electromagnetic Analysis for Electrical Engineering
Altair has an extensive, worldwide experience of 35 years innovating design optimization and time-to-market reduction. Altair Flux banks on this experience to provide a finite element software that provides solutions to low-frequency electromagnetic and thermal simulation problems. Flux includes an open and user-friendly interface. What is more, it can easily interface with other Altair software to address multiphysics problems for a variety of systems in 2D, 3D and Skew modeling situations.
Product Highlights
Powered by best-in-class numerical techniques, Altair Flux provides fast and accurate results. Featuring extended multi-parametric analysis capabilities, including electrical circuit and kinematic couplings, Altair Flux helps you analyze, design, and optimize a wide range of systems.
Numerous Applications
- Rotating machines
- Linear actuators, solenoids
- Transformers & inductances
- Induction heating processes
- Sensors
- Cables, electric connections
- Electromagnetic compatibility
Multi-body Dynamics Simulation
Altair MotionSolve is an integrated solution to analyze and optimize multi-body systems that offers powerful modeling, analysis, visualization, and optimization capabilities for simulating complex systems. It thus aids users understand and improve the performance of the product. MotionSolve can be used to perform kinematic, dynamic, static, quasi-static, linear, and vibration analyses.
Product Highlights
- Comprehensive multi-body solution to optimize mechanical system performance
- Easily model, analyze, evaluate, and optimize your mechanical system
- Validated across several automotive, aerospace, and general machinery applications
- Extensively correlated to test data through partnership with customers
Altair EDEM – Simulation of Bulk Material
The Discrete Element Method (DEM) is a particle-scale numerical method for modelling the bulk behaviour of granular materials and many geo-materials, especially naturally occurring minerals. Altair EDEM is a versatile tool that allows customers to design and develop power machinery while simultaneously optimizing how this equipment processes and handles bulk materials. The main objective of the EDEM simulation tool from Altair is to give engineers insights about the interaction between materials such as pellets, tablets, powders, coal, soil, and rocks with machinery. Altair EDEM allows for faster workflows and includes tools for quick and easy simulation setup.EDEM has the interfaces and functionality to couple with all of the major CAE technologies such as finite element analysis (FEA), multi-body dynamics (MBD) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). It can couple seamlessly with Altair OptiStruct, Altair MotionSolve and Altair AcuSolve, as well as with 3rd party software.
EDEM software is made of 3 core components: EDEM Creator, Simulator, and Analyst.
EDEM Creator is the pre-processor for setting up an EDEM simulation model, EDEM Simulator is a powerful solver for fast and efficient simulations while EDEM Analyst is the post-processing environment where simulations are reviewed and analyzed.
Salient features of Altair EDEM include:
- Simulate Any Material: Model a wide variety of real world materials such as large rocks, fine powders, grains, fibers, and tablets
- Realistic Material Behavior: Comprehensive range of validated physics models for representing any material behavior such as dry, sticky, or compressible.
- Fast and Easy Workflow: Intuitive user interface for quick simulation set-up
- Advanced Analysis: Extensive set of built-in tools for visualization and analysis
- Customization: Custom physics with EDEM’s API for complex simulations and advanced material behavior such as wet coating, agglomeration, breakage, magnetic particles, and more
- CAE Integration: Couple EDEM with FEA and MBD tools to include realistic material loads in structural and system dynamics analysis. Combine with CFD tools for accurate simulation of particle-fluid systems.
Altair EDEM tool is beneficial for industries like construction, off-highway, mining, agriculture, space exploration and process industries.
DesignTech Systems is the business partner of Altair EDEM in India and Singapore.
Altair PollEx – EDA Software to Speed up Electronic Systems Development
Electronic components are electrically connected within a board with printed circuit boards (PCBs), which are the core components of most of the electronic appliances and circuits. While PCB design tools are traditionally reserved for PCB design engineers, engineers from other disciplines like hardware design, manufacturing, testing and mechanical need to also access, review and analyze the design and manufacturing data of PCBs and their Integrated Circuit (IC) packages. Altair PollEx is a PCB level electronic design automation (EDA) software suite covering design, analysis, verifications and manufacturing to significantly reduce development cycles while providing a common application for electrical, electronic and manufacturing engineers. It is an open solution, which means it transfers data seamlessly between different ECAD and simulation environments. PollEx provides unsurpassed connectivity to all relevant ECAD systems and formats as well to third party PCB simulation software and brings Design for Excellence (DfX) through a common application and a powerful set of rule-based design checks addressing post-design process constraints in the early design stages.
Its many features include query, measure, finding objects, and various reporting. PollEx operates in an open environment, which can transfer data flawlessly between different ECAD and simulation environments.
Salient features of Altair PollEx include:
- Unified Part Library: Collaborate throughout product development with physical, logical, thermal, electrical, and assembly attribute data maintained in one place
- Early Design Simulation: PollEx provides checks for signal integrity, power integrity, EMI vulnerability and ESD protection, verifying return path routing, balanced differential pairs, and other criteria
- Detailed Performance Analysis: Achieve the performance and usability targets of today’s tightly packaged electronic devices with export to the engineering simulation across all disciplines
- Manufacturing Support: Increase efficiency of PCB fabrication, assembly, and end-of-line testing, with the export of fabricating, mounting, paneling, and testing data to production line machinery
- Integrates with Existing Tools: Pollex reads major ECAD file formats including: ODB++, IPC 2581, Gerber, Altium, Cadence, CADVANE, EAGLE, Mentor Graphics, PowerPCB, Zuken, and CAM350
- Part of a Broad Product Development Suite: Take advantage of Altair Units to employ Altair solvers including OptiStruct, Radioss, and Feko, for detailed thermal, stress/vibration/drop, and EMI/EMC analysis
DesignTech Systems is the business partner of Altair PollEx in India and Singapore.
Altair Hyperlife – Fatigue Simulation Software
Fatigue is a mechanical property of a material that describes the long effect of repeated or cyclic straining action. Fatigue eventually causes strain that leads to the breaking of the material. Mechanical fatigue is a critical aspect of component design, as it determines the usable life of a component or mechanical system. HyperLife from Altair is a comprehensive toolset for durability analysis, directly interfacing with all the major finite element analysis (FEA) results files that runs on a solver-neutral framework. Altair HyperLife enables engineers to quickly understand potential durability issues through an easy-to-learn solution for fatigue life under static, transient and vibration loading. Since fatigue analysis is not required every day, Altair has taken care to ensure that HyperLife is intuitive and an easy to use simulation solution. The tool enables test engineers to perform simulations with little or no training, and makes them quickly understand potential durability issues through an easy-to-learn solution for fatigue life under static and transient loading.
Altair HyperLife simulates fatigue testing within hours with maximum accuracy compared to physical testing which can often take months. It allows engineers to evaluate damage and cycles to failure, faster and earlier, to ensure durability targets are hit without time-consuming and expensive redesigns.
Salient features of Altair HyperLife include:
- Available Modules: Available fatigue life modules include: Uniaxial SN / EN, Multiaxial SN / EN, Dang Van (FOS), and Weld Fatigue (Spot Weld and Seam Weld)
- Materials: A comprehensive embedded Material database within the standard installation (//matdat.com). HyperLife also supports all the major weld regulations (Eurocode 3/9, FKM, etc.)
- Welds: Weld Fatigue assessment is available for Spot Welds and Seam Welds, based respectively on RUPP and VOLVO methods
- Signal Processing: A simple yet robust signal processing within the LoadMap utility. Durability can be automatically or manually derived for pairing FEA load cases with fatigue load history files
- Analysis: Review Fatigue analysis settings before starting the run. Once the analysis is completed, the results can then be used to visualize contours plots and histograms
- Utilities: HyperLife offers a complete tool kit of utilities to manage the largest, most complex FE data, including loadmapper, Reports, and more
DesignTech Systems is the business partner of Altair HyperLife in India and Singapore.
Particle-based Fluid Dynamics
Altair nanofluidX predicts the flow in complex geometries with complex motion. This particle based (SPH) fluid dynamics tool can be used to forecast the oiling in powertrain systems with rotating shafts / gears and analyze forces and torques on individual components of the system. It utilizes the advanced GPU technology, enabling high-performance simulations of real geometries.
Product Highlights
- Particle-based (SPH) fluid dynamics simulation
- Meshless method to simulating complex fluid flow
- Superior performance due to high-density GPU computing
- Well suited for elaborated powertrain applications – gearboxes, crankshafts, etc
Particle-based Fluid Dynamics
The aerodynamic properties if passenger and heavy duty vehicles play an important role in the manufacturing process. Altair ultraFluidX is a simulation tool for super fast prediction of these aerodynamic properties and for the evaluation of building and environmental aerodynamics. Altair ultraFluidX’s advanced technology is optimized for GPUs. It delivers unbeatable performance and to allow for overnight simulations even of complex cases on a single server.
Product Highlights
- Wall-modelled LES approach based on the Lattice Boltzmann Method
- Integrated, robust volume meshing for fast design changes
- Efficient Multi-GPU implementation for overnight analyses
- Tailor-made solution for external aerodynamics
Electronics Thermal CFD Management Software
A CFD based thermal package, Altair ElectroFlo simulates challenging electronics cooling and other EDA thermal management applications. The tool is very capable of solving complex problems that involve conduction, natural and forced convection, radiation and conjugate heat transfer. Keeping in mind the fact that not everyone is a CFD expert, ElectroFlo is designed to be very user friendly.
Product Highlights
- Coupled electrical analysis
- 1D Flow network co-simulation and patented radiation solver
- Embedded thermal/electrical networks
- Fully automated modeling approach for common procedures
- Extensive error-checking
- The object-oriented modeling makes the software easy to use
Simulation of Multiscale Material Models
Rapid industrialization has necessitated innovative materials for product development. Altair Multiscale Designer is an accurate and efficient tool for the development of multiscale material models. It can simulate a plethora of parts manufactured from any heterogeneous material, such as continuous and chopped fiber composites, honeycomb cores, lattice structures, reinforced concrete, soil and bones. Multiscale Designer is useful in multiscale material modeling for design, ultimate failure assessment, statistical-based material allowables, creep, fatigue, fracture, and impact simulations. It also provides user material plugins to commercial FEA solvers Altair OptiStruct, Altair Radioss, LS-DYNA, and Abaqus.
Product Highlights
- Multiscale material models for continuous, long, and short reinforced composites
- Built-in parametric & external unit cell modeling
- Accurate, efficient simulation of inelastic effects to ultimate failure
- Fiber-orientation mapping for injection molding
- Virtual material allowables for standard specimens
- Plugins for Altair OptiStruct, Altair Radioss, LS-DYNA, and Abaqus
Analysis and Design of Composites
Altair ESAComp is a standalone software for analysis and design of composites. It covers the gamut from preliminary design of layered composite structures to advanced analyses that are applicable to final design verification. Altair ESAComp easily integrates with other Altair HyperWorks products that deal with composite materials. In addition, the tool has a vast set of analysis capabilities for solid / sandwich laminates and structural elements.
Product Highlights
- Altair ESAComp materials database, with properties for 1000+ commercial material systems
- Covers layered composite structures from preliminary design to analysis of details
- Standalone tool that interfaces with general finite element packages
- Altair ESAComp integration with HyperWorks enhances composites pre- and post-processing
- Used worldwide in all industries utilizing high-performance composites
Multi-disciplinary Design Exploration & Optimization
Altair HyperStudy is a multi-disciplinary design exploration, study, and optimization software for engineers and designers. HyperStudy uses design-of-experiments, meta-modelling, and optimization methods to create intelligent design variants, manage runs and collect data. The software enables users to understand data trends, perform trade-off studies, and optimize design performance and reliability. It has a user friendly, intuitive interface and integrates seamlessly with Altair Hyperworks to make design exploration technology accessible to even users who are not experts.
Product Highlights
- State-of-the-art design exploration, metamodeling, and optimization methods
- Data mining tools that are easy to understand and interpret
- Direct interface to the most popular CAE solvers
- Fully integrated with Altair HyperWorks, seamless shape optimization via Altair HyperMorph®
Customized Software Enhancements
Each company has unique design process requirements. Altair understands this. As part of our commitment to enhance enable our customers to create innovative design solutions efficiently, the service group at Altair tweaks Altair HyperWorks solutions that are tailor made to their unique requirements, embedding the simulation platform with client specific intelligence.
Solution Highlights
- Automate, standardize and simplify engineering practices
- Customize software solutions to accelerate product development
- Fast and flexible deployment
- Increase efficiency and product performance through process modifications
- Packaged solutions leveraging Altair’s licensing model
- Fully customized workflows addressing specific needs