Industry
Renault - An Innovative Approach to Lighter and More Efficient Powertrains
Altair
ProductDesign assists Renault in the development of optimization design methods and processes for powertrain components.
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BorgWarner - Capture how Temperature
Affects Mechanical Stresses
Altair automates the process with HyperMath
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Bloodhound SSC - On Track to Break the
World Land Speed Record
Designers of an innovative supersonic car draw on technology to address engineering challenges
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Ford Motor Company - Driving Full-Vehicle Crash Analysis Down to a Day
Altair demonstrates that the full-vehicle crash analysis process can be compressed from weeks to 24 hours
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Dallara Automobili - HyperWorks Helps Design Racing Cars
Video interview with Luca Pignacca regarding speed and safety
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Multimatic - Transform Innovative Ideas into Patented Products
HyperWorks simulation tools are introduced into the design and manufacturing process
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The Clemson University - Graduate Students Develop a Fully Functional, Hybrid Mainstream Sports Car Concept
Altair gives their time and resources to the Deep Orange 3 program, part of the
Clemson University International Center
for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR)
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Alfa Romeo - Optimization Technology Delivers Innovative Suspension Design
Altair worked with Alfa Romeo on the development of the chassis of the 8c Competizione concept car and the new upper control arm (UCA)
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ALSTOM Transport - Using Validation to Meet European Safety Standards
Numerical simulation aids in the design of
passive safety systems to minimize
passenger injury during railway accidents
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Cooper Standard - Simulate the Flow of Coolant Through an Automotive Pump
Altair helps speed development of next-generation pumps with AcuSolve CFD Solver
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Dana - Implementing a First-Time-Right
design methodology
High-quality meshing automation with SimLab cuts Dana’s modeling time and improves product quality.
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PSA Peugeot Citroën - Accurately Predict the Results Early Within the Development Process
The HyperWorks suite is used from
manufacturing of single parts to crash
simulation of the full vehicle model
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Automotive & Transportation
Couple changing government regulations, including new fuel economy standards, with increasing consumer choices / demands and you define the challenging environment facing today’s vehicle manufacturers. They must rapidly bring to market winning designs within the price budget that their customers expect. Altair’s helps automakers leverage CAE driven design to quickly drive product performance for safety, driving, comfort and quality balanced with fuel economy and weight targets.
Fuel Efficiency
Automakers follow a multipronged approach in achieving fuel efficiency: from engineering lighter structures to the adoption of new powertrain technology and increased emphasis on aerodynamics. Vehicles today are multi-material utilizing more complex materials like high-strength steels, aluminum, magnesium and carbon composites. Altair's Optistruct is an industry proven solution for structural design and optimization and helps designers and engineers to develop lightweight, structurally efficient, and innovative vehicles reducing weight and material costs while managing performance requirements.
Performance and Comfort
Altair's NVH, fluid flow and vehicle dynamics solutions drive physical prototype development by directly simulating the end customer experience dramatically improving vehicle performance and comfort. Exterior and internal fluid flow studies with Altair Acusolve provide insight on aerodynamics, cooling, noise, and comfort.
Safety
Safety remains an essential component in today's vehicle offerings, with pre-crash technologies (active safety) in particular gaining more focus lately. A growing number of OEMs are able to produce vehicles with good safety records. New consumer protection protocols keep challenging the status quo in term of passive safety performance pushing increasingly tougher requirements and advocating the importance of vehicle safety in all markets. Altair RADIOSS as an industry standard in automotive crash and impact analysis is the tool of choice in the hands of crash engineers to satisfy such new challenges.
