Americas Altair Technology Conference (ATC) 2015, to be held in Dearborn, Michigan, from May 5 to 7, 2015, is set to present hundreds of engineers showing new techniques for simulating vehicle design with composites and optimizing designs for additive manufacturing, lightweight vehicles and aircraft.

ATC is the foremost annual event for engineering professionals and top-level industry leaders in the arenas of product design, advanced manufacturing, applied physics and high-performance computing.

A wide-ranging series of key research papers will be presented at the conference, each of which responds to emerging trends and capabilities in manufacturing and computer simulation.

Professor in practice, University of Texas at Arlington, consulting engineer, optimal structures, LLC, Robert m. Taylor of optimal structures, will present a paper on structural component design optimization for additive manufacture. He will explain how the advanced capabilities of
Altair HyperWorks tools for designing structural topologies to minimize weight while maximizing performance, according to a press release.

Structural analysis engineer David Bowen of Boeing will talk on cutting-edge optimization methods for the aerospace industry, describing how the new multi-model optimization capabilities in Altair’s OptiStruct software can overcome the problems associated with attempting to optimize structures and components across multiple configurations.

Altair senior director of industry solutions, Subir Roy will show how simulation of composite plies made from woven fibres can be carried out with Altair’s RADIOSS solver, mapping the variance in fibre angles and translating those differences into crash-performance results.

Crash safety engineer, Youn Park, from Ford Motor will discusses how the HyperWorks software suite can be applied to carry out multiple analyses with a large number of target points for pedestrian impact safety, providing a much more efficient approach to the concern than manual or semi-automatic methods.

Other thought leaders offering their perspectives on design and optimization in the aerospace and defence industries at the conference are Franck Mouriaux, general manager, structures, RUAG space, Ken Dudley, senior researcher, NASA Langley research center, Stewart (Denny) Moore, principal engineer, applied mechanics, general dynamics/electric boat Altair chairman and CEO, James R. Scapa, will highlight Altair’s plans and innovations for continuing to advance the use of simulation in the design of products, packaging, and systems for global business. (GK)