EADS Innovation Works Europe adds HyperWorks to their set of preferred CAE tools

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(2009), "EADS Innovation Works Europe adds HyperWorks to their set of preferred CAE tools", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 81 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.2009.12781eab.009

EADS Innovation Works Europe adds HyperWorks to their set of preferred CAE tools

Article Type: Aerospace technology From: Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: An International Journal, Volume 81, Issue 5

Strategic decision for HyperWorks helps to enhance modelling and optimisation, saving development time, costs and material in aerospace industry.

Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services that empower client innovation and decision making, announced recently that EADS Innovation Works, the EADS corporate research and technology organisation, has increased its use of HyperWorks throughout its European operations and has added Altair's simulation suite to its preferred set of CAE tools. EADS Innovation Works will use HyperWorks to optimise aerospace structures, with a specific focus on composite material systems, to further the company's technical innovation potential. The group also plans to use HyperWorks pre-processing technology to streamline the complex meshing process for acoustic finite element models. EADS Innovation Works has been using Altair's software for several years already and has recently consolidated licenses.

“In Germany, we were looking for good optimisation and meshing tools,” said Dr Peter Middendorf, Head of Structure Integration & Mechanical Systems, EADS Innovation Works, Germany. “HyperWorks, with OptiStruct and HyperMesh, offers exactly the tools we were looking for to meet our needs. We like the open architecture of the product suite and we appreciate the high-meshing quality of HyperMesh. In a benchmark, we ran with several meshing tools, HyperMesh produced excellent results, especially for volume meshes, which we need to automate our interior acoustic simulation efforts. Also, optimisation is of growing importance in the aerospace industry and in all EADS Business Units. We are using OptiStruct for our optimisation tasks because of its leading performance in optimising composite structures. With Altair's tools and support we can save time, money, and material.”

“I'm very pleased about EADS Innovation Works' decision for HyperWorks and Altair support,” said Dr Michael Hoffmann, Altair, Vice President EMEA. “During the last twelve months, we have seen a tremendous growth of HyperWorks in the aerospace industry and throughout different EADS Business Units. I'm sure this trend will continue due the industry's high interest in adopting HyperWorks' superior modelling, visualisation and optimisation technologies, which include customised solutions for the aerospace industry, such as the optimisation of composite structures. I am looking forward to a long and fruitful partnership with EADS Innovation Works.”

Built on a foundation of design optimisation, performance data management and process automation, HyperWorks is an enterprise simulation solution for rapid design exploration and decision making. As the most comprehensive, open-architecture CAE solution in the industry, HyperWorks includes best-in-class modelling, analysis, visualization and data management solutions for linear and non-linear, structural optimisation, fluid-structure interaction, and multi-body dynamics applications. For more information, please visit the web site: www.altairhyperworks.com

Altair Engineering, Inc. empowers client innovation and decision making through technology that optimises the analysis, management and visualisation of business and engineering information. Privately held with more than 1,300 employees, Altair has offices throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. With a 20-year-plus track record for enterprise analytics, product development, and advanced computing, Altair consistently delivers a competitive advantage to customers in a broad range of industries. To learn more, please visit the web site: www.altair.com

Details available from: Altair Engineering, Inc., Tel.: +1-248-614-2400.