OPTISTRUCT FOR NONLINEAR ANALYSIS

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO ALTAIR AND THE HYPERWORKS SUITE

Aditya Jayanthi, John Brink

Altair Engineering
October, 2017
Version 2017.2
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INSTRUCTORS

Aditya Jayanthi– Aditya Jayanthi is a Senior Application Engineer at Altair

working with variety of suppliers and new customers in Metro Detroit Area.
Aditya started his career in CAE domain with Altair in 2013. He graduated with
Doctoral Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological
University, Cookeville, TN and with Masters in Mechanical Engineering from
NYU-Poly, Brooklyn, NY. He holds Bachelors degree from JNTU, Hyderabad.

John Brink – with Altair for 29 years working with Product Design and
Commercial Software in various roles. For the past 7 years John has managed
the Americas technical field support engineers who are tasked with helping our
customers evaluate and use Altair software.

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ONLINE TRAINING LOGISTICS

Training is based on HyperWorks 2017

Asking Questions:
• Microphones are muted to help with audio clarity
• Chat window is open for questions at anytime
• “Raise your hand" and we will unmute you so you can
ask a question
Exercises:
• Time during class for completing exercises
• Breakout rooms available for one-on-one help during
exercises
Polls to keep you engaged and informed

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COURSE CERTIFICATE

In order to earn a certificate of completion a

student must:
• Attend at least 4 of the 5 online sessions
• Complete and submit the results of one of
the capstone exercises
• Use 2017.1 or 2017.2

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CAPSTONE EXERCISES

There are four capstone exercises to choose from:

• Lower Control Arm – Nonlinear material and geometry
• Bottle Crush – Nonlinear material, geometry and contacts
• Snap Fit – Nonlinear geometry and contacts
• Lap Joint – Nonlinear geometry, material and contacts

Lower Control Arm Snap Fit Lap Joint

Bottle Crush

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TRAINING MATERIALS & OPTISTRUCT VERSION

The training materials can be found at the GoTo Training Link

This course uses version 2017.2 of the OptiStruct solver

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AGENDA

1. Introduction to Altair and the HyperWorks Suite

2. Nonlinear Problems and Solution Methods
3. Working with Nonlinear Materials
4. Simulating Nonlinear Geometry
5. Defining Loading History
6. Setting Up Contact
7. Achieving Convergence & Best Practices

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ALTAIR HYPERWORKS: SIMULATION-DRIVEN INNOVATION

HyperWorks is the most

comprehensive open-architecture
simulation platform, offering
technologies to design and optimize
high performance, efficient
and innovative products.

Drive Innovation
Simulate Everything
Interoperate Freely
Access it All

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ALTAIR SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Systems and Electro-
Concept/ID Structures Thermal/CFD Manufacturing Impact Composites
Model-based magnetic
Modeling and
Visualization

vertical apps
HyperWorks
Design and

Altair Partner Alliance

solidThinking
HyperWorks
Analysis
Simulation Technology

Altair Partner Alliance

solidThinking
HyperWorks
Optimization

Altair Partner Alliance

solidThinking
Altair Simulation Cloud Suite
Cloud & HPC

HyperWorks Unlimited
PBS Professional
solidThinking Envision

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PRODUCTS LIST

Simulation Technology Modeling & Visualization Vertical & Design

Solutions
Cloud & HPC
OptiStruct HyperMesh
solidThinking Inspire
RADIOSS HyperView Envision
solidThinking Evolve
AcuSolve HyperGraph Simulation Manager
solidThinking Compose
nanoFluidX HyperCrash HyperWorks Unlimited
solidThinking Activate
FEKO SimLab PBS Works
solidThinking Embed
WinProp MotionView
Click2Form/HyperForm
Flux Virtual Wind Tunnel
Click2Extrude
Multiscale Designer
Click2Cast
HyperStudy
MotionSolve

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ALTAIR SOLVER TECHNOLOGY

Structural Crash, Safety, Thermal Fluid Systems Manufacturing Electro-

Analysis Impact & Blast Analysis Dynamics Simulation Simulation Magnetics

Multiphysics Analysis and Optimization

Digital Materials

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ALTAIR SOLVER BRANDS

AcuSolve FEKO
OptiStruct RADIOSS MotionSolve
nanoFluidX Flux

Implicit Explicit

Durability Crash
Vibrations Safety
Multi-body CFD and Electro-
Acoustics Forming
Dynamics Thermal Magnetics
Buckling Blast
Heat Transfer Gravity
Springback

Design and Optimization

HyperStudy

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OPTISTRUCT – STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION

Altair OptiStruct is an
industry proven, modern
structural analysis solver for
linear and non-linear
simulation.

It is the most widely used

solution for structural
design and optimization in
all industries.

OptiStruct helps to analyse

and optimize structures for
performance characteristics
such as strength, durability,
and NVH, to rapidly develop
innovative, lightweight, and
efficient structures.

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RADIOSS – CRASH, SAFETY & IMPACT

Altair RADIOSS is a leading

structural analysis solver for
non-linear problems under
dynamic loadings.

It is highly differentiated for

scalability, quality,
robustness, and consists of
features for multiphysics
simulation and advanced
materials such as
composites.

RADIOSS is used across

many industries to improve
the crashworthiness, safety,
and manufacturability of
structural designs.

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ACUSOLVE – COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

AcuSolve is Altair's most

powerful Computational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tool,
providing users with a full
range of physical models.

Simulations involving flow,

heat transfer, turbulence,
and non-Newtonian
materials are handled with
ease by AcuSolve’s robust
and scalable technology.

These well validated

physical models are
delivered with unmatched
accuracy on fully
unstructured meshes.

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NANOFLUIDX – PARTICLE-BASED FLUID DYNAMICS

nanoFluidX is a particle-
based (SPH) fluid dynamics
simulation tool to predict the
flow in complex geometries
with complex motion.

Examples of application are

oiling in powertrain systems
with rotating shafts/gears, or
sloshing in tanks with
transient motions.

Utilizing the GPU technology

empowers high performance
simulations of real
geometries.

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FEKO – HIGH FREQUENCY EMAG AND ANTENNA DESIGN

FEKO is a leading
electromagnetic simulation
software that uses multiple
frequency and time domain
techniques.

True hybridization of these

methods enables the
efficient analysis of a broad
spectrum of EM problems
mainly related to antenna
design and placement,
scattering, radar cross
section (RCS) and
electromagnetic
compatibility (EMC).

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FLUX – LOW FREQUENCY EMAG ANALYSIS FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

For more than 30 years,

Flux simulation software
has been used worldwide in
leading industries and
university labs for
electromagnetic and
thermal analyses. It has
become a reference for the
high accuracy it delivers.

Whatever the electric

device or equipment you
are designing, it captures
the complexity of
electromagnetic and
thermal phenomena to
predict the behavior of your
products with precision.

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MOTIONSOLVE – MULTI-BODY DYNAMICS SIMULATION

MotionSolve is an
integrated solution to
analyze and optimize multi-
body systems. MotionSolve
offers powerful modeling,
analysis, visualization, and
optimization capabilities for
simulating complex
systems.

You can perform kinematic,

dynamic, static, quasi-static,
linear, and vibration
analyses. MotionSolve
helps you to understand
and improve the
performance of your
product.

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HYPERSTUDY – MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DESIGN EXPLORATION & OPTIMIZATION

HyperStudy is a multi-
disciplinary design
exploration, study, and
optimization software for
engineers and designers.

Using design-of-
experiments (DOE), meta-
modeling, and optimization
methods, HyperStudy
creates intelligent design
variants, manages runs,
and collects data. Users are
guided to understand data
trends, perform trade-off
studies, and optimize
design performance and
reliability.

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MULTISCALE DESIGNER – SIMULATION OF MULTISCALE MATERIAL MODELS

Multiscale Designer is an
efficient tool for development
and simulation of multiscale
material models of
continuous, woven, and/or
chopped fiber composites,
honeycomb cores,
reinforced concrete, soil,
bones, and various other
heterogeneous materials.

Applications include
multiscale material modeling
for design, ultimate failure,
statistical-based material
allowables, fatigue, fracture,
impact, crash, etc.

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POLL

How much experience do you have with Nonlinear Implicit analysis?

• I don’t know what you mean by nonlinear implicit analysis
• I understand it theoretically, but have no practical experience
• I’ve used a competitor’s nonlinear implicit solver
• I am confident with a competitive nonlinear solver
• I have experience with linear analysis with OptiStruct

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