Altair Engineering Launches HyperCrash/CATIA

By DE Editors

Altair Engineering, Inc. (Troy, MI) released HyperCrash/CATIA, which is a crash test environment integrated into CATIA V5. It enables modeling of crash data and can include nonlinear material properties in a dynamic database. Separate usage licensing is required.

HyperCrash/CATIA, part of the HyperWorks suite of advanced CAE solutions suited for CATIA users, is an effective crash workbench specifically dedicated to automotive crash engineers because they can move directly into the RADIOSS solver to perform time- intensive critical crash analysis without leaving CATIA to do so.

“HyperCrash/CATIA not only dramatically reduces cycle time between design and finite-element analysis,” said Altair Vice President of Product Technology Uwe Schramm, “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 tools for crash analysis such as contact resolution, model checker, and connection management. HyperCrash/CATIA also has an intuitive modeling system for spot welds that allows up to five sheets to be connected, compared to two sheets using CATIA alone.

RADIOSS, part of the Altair HyperWorks CAE technology suite, is a 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.

For further details, contact Altair Engineering, Inc.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.