This brochure summarizes the capabilities of Altair OptiStruct software. It can generate innovative concept designs using topology optimization and considers manufacturing requirements to create practical designs. It allows engineers to reduce weight and development time. Key capabilities include design optimization, multi-disciplinary structural optimization, system-level design optimization, and fatigue-based concept design and optimization. It integrates tightly with HyperWorks for easy model setup, post-processing, and automation.

1. Brochure
Altair® OptiStruct®
Altair OptiStruct
® ®
Meet Today's Complex Product Development Challenges with
Award-Winning Concept Design and Optimization Technology
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2. Altair OptiStruct
® ®
Meet Today's Complex Product Development Challenges
with Award-Winning Concept Design and Optimization Technology
Altair® OptiStruct® is an award-winning, finite-element-based software for concept
design and optimization. OptiStruct assists engineers and designers in developing
lightweight, structurally efficient designs in a timely manner. Using OptiStruct, they
can deliver dramatic improvements in design performance and achieve product
and business objectives faster.
Benefits Capabilities
Design Design
• Cuts development time and costs by OptiStruct's award-winning design-synthesis
providing clear design direction early in technology uses the topology optimization
the design cycle approach to generate innovative concept-
• Employs powerful optimization techniques design proposals. In the initial phase of the
to achieve significant weight reduction development process, the user enters the
• Creates unique, high-performance designs package space information, design targets
that satisfy performance requirements and manufacturing process parameters.
• Generates competing design themes OptiStruct then generates a manufacturable
design proposal that is optimized for the
Optimization given design targets. The manufacturing
• Increases competitiveness through process parameters are important in
product innovation. achieving interpretable, feasible designs.
• Provides an easy-to-use graphical user
interface and tight application integration In sheet metal parts, beads are often used
that cut training time and maximize to reinforce structures. For given allowable
end-user efficiency. bead dimensions, OptiStruct's topography
• Leads the industry with the ability to optimization technology will generate an
solve the largest, most complex innovative design proposal for the ideal
optimization problems. bead pattern of reinforcement.
• 19% Mass Reduction
• 75% Reduction in Design Cycle Time • 41% Stress Reduction
Aircraft Door Hinge Design and Optimization Missile Support Structure Design Using Free-Shape Optimization
Using Topology and Shape Optimization
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3. Composite Optimization optimization can be used to reduce rigid bodies simultaneously. This first-
OptiStruct’s new comprehensive composite high-stress concentrations. OptiStruct can in-industry, innovative method, allows for
design and optimization package also use HyperMesh's morphing the optimization of system-level multi-body
streamlines composite structure design technology to update finite-element meshes dynamic models. Additionally ESLM can be
during optimization. As a result, OptiStruct applied to concept design synthesis and
work for both the designer and the analyst.
can easily propose design modifications design fine-tuning.
This ply-based approach simplifies the
without a need for underlying CAD data
interpretation of the concept design results
and with a minimum of user interaction. Fatigue-Based Concept Design
from free-size optimization. OptiStruct also Within the OptiStruct environment, and Optimization
considers manufacturing requirements early optimization parameters can be defined OptiStruct’s fatigue optimization capabilities
in the design process to achieve practical with only a few mouse clicks. allow concept design synthesis (topology,
designs and proposes a lay-up sequence topography, free-size) and design fine-tuning
that meets these requirements. OptiStruct can use responses from many (size, shape, free-shape) based on
different disciplines in the optimization fatigue performance. Damage and life
Multi-Disciplinary Structural Optimization process such as static, buckling, from either stress-life or strain-life fatigue
frequency response, random response,
Analyzing the performance of structures is analysis can be used as design criteria.
thermo-mechanical, heat transfer,
only one of the many steps in the product This capability allows concept design using
acoustic analysis. OptiStruct’s iterative
development process. Based on the analysis fatigue responses and is computationally
solver for static analysis and SPMD
results, product engineers make part efficient compared to fatigue-based
version for multiple-static, linear-buckling
modification proposals in order to meet optimization using third-party applications.
and direct frequency response reduce
stress, weight or stiffness requirements. the CPU time significantly. Surface-to-surface
contact has been introduced. Tied interfaces Easy Model Set-up,
OptiStruct's seamless integration of
for linear analysis can be modeled with Post-Processing and Automation
state-of-the-art, gradient-based optimization
the FREEZE option of a contact. In addition OptiStruct is tightly integrated into the
methods makes multi-disciplinary size and
to these capabilities, OptiStruct has HyperWorks® environment, enabling fast
shape optimization easy.
innovative methods for system-level and easy model set-up in HyperMesh®.
optimization and fatigue optimization. Animations, contour plots and charts can
Size optimization defines ideal component be generated using the post-processing
parameters, such as material values, System-Level Design Optimization tools in HyperView®. Moreover, jobs can
cross-section dimensions and thicknesses. Equivalent Static Load Method (ESLM) be easily automated by using the powerful
Shape optimization is applied on existing is an innovative method implemented for automation and data-management layer
product components. OptiStruct’s free-shape optimization of both flexible bodies and available in HyperWorks.
• 40% Reduction in
Peak PSD Acceleration
Bead Design of Satellite Panel Using Topography Optimization Automobile Knuckle Design Using Manufacturing Constraints

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