CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
20 August 2007
Product News
Altair Engineering Launches Industry's First Crash Environment to Be Integrated into CATIA V5
Altair Engineering, Inc . announced the launch of HyperCrash/CATIA, the first crash environment integrated into CATIA V5. The new technology enables modeling of crash data and the capability to include nonlinear material properties in a dynamic database. HyperCrash/CATIA is part of the HyperWorks suite of advanced CAE solutions and provides a seamless interface for CATIA users. However, separate usage licensing is required.
Previously, engineers were required to leave CATIA to perform time- intensive critical crash analysis. Now, they can perform the complete task inside the CATIA environment and move directly into the RADIOSS solver. This makes HyperCrash/CATIA the first effective crash workbench specifically dedicated to automotive crash engineers.
"We are happy to be first on the market with this unique product," said Altair Vice President of Product Technology Uwe Schramm, Ph.D. "HyperCrash/CATIA not only dramatically reduces cycle time between design and finite-element analysis. It also adds 'associativity' between geometry and the crash model, and allows fast updates of crash analysis data whenever the geometry changes."
Other benefits of HyperCrash/CATIA include advanced tools for crash analysis, such as those for contact resolution, model checker and connection management. In addition, HyperCrash/CATIA has a new, intuitive modeling system for spot welds that allows up to five sheets to be connected, compared to two sheets with CATIA alone.
About RADIOSS
RADIOSS is an explicit and implicit finite-element solver technology that simulates mechanical, structural, fluid and fluid-structure interaction phenomena, taking into account nonlinear material, for quasi- static and dynamic loading events. RADIOSS is part of the Altair® HyperWorks® CAE technology suite. HyperWorks provides solver solutions for linear, nonlinear, fluid and fluid structure interaction, structural optimization and multi-body dynamics applications, while delivering best-in-class modeling, visualization and process automation solutions.
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