Sustainable Manufacturing and Topology Optimization can be done at its best using Altair Inspire. A tool that empowers you to create, explore, and study structurally efficient designs.
The definition of sustainable manufacturing can change a little depending on who you ask.
For example, the United Nations website focuses on sustainable manufacturing as a form of manufacturing development that meets “the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
This definition of sustainable manufacturing focuses on the need to conserve for the sake of the future, avoiding wasteful practices that over-consume resources and leave the world in a diminished state that cannot support the needs of our children and the generations beyond.
The U.S. Department of Commerce, on the other hand, defines sustainable manufacturing as “the creation of manufactured products that use processes that minimize negative environmental impacts, conserve energy and natural resources, are safe for employees, communities, and consumers and are economically sound.”
In this blog we will look into topology optimization and how it can help Manufacturing industries build products sustainably.
Topology optimization is a technology for developing optimized structures considering design parameters like expected loads, available design space, materials, and cost. Embedded early in the design process, it enables the creation of designs with minimal mass and maximal stiffness.
Making 1 ton of steel produces about 1.8 tons of carbon dioxide. If by using topology optimization we reduce 40% of steel requirement then it would result in direct reduction of 40% of CO2
1. Increase Quality
Altair Inspire allows users to rapidly explore and assess designs for static loads, normal modes, buckling and motion through an intuitive user experience leveraging its embedded physics engine. This enables users to ensure quality and dependable design prior to any prototyping or production.
2. Reduce Costs
Leveraging simulation-driven design with Altair Inspire early and often in the design process enables cost savings by reducing material usage, re-design iterations, and overall design time.
3. Faster Development
Simulation-driven design equips its users with the tools necessary to accelerate their overall design process. Inspire helps them to streamline the production of high-performance, quality parts and products. By utilizing Altair Inspire in the concept design phase, users can arrive at an ideal design concept extremely early in the process and reduce, or even eliminate re-design iterations.
Altair Inspire is a sophisticated and highly efficient topology and structure optimization and simulation suite, leveraging the power of Altair’s Optistruct and SimSolid solvers. Different boundary conditions and simulation cases from linear static to motion analysis and more make a holistic approach possible that’s uniquely Altair. One solution, many uses.
The baseline of every optimization is a robust simulation which Altair Inspire provides with the capabilities of the industry proven Optistruct and MotionSolve solvers. With these simulation results, users can optimize material usage based on an automated iterative process which produces high quality designs.
Altair Inspire is used by designers and design engineers to optimize products, components and whole assemblies, generating value over the whole part lifecycle.
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Industry
3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing.
Challenge
Design and 3D print a structurally sound, lightweight skateboard.
SOLUTION
Inspire to generate the ideal skateboard deck and truck material layout.
RESULTS
Futurescape Webinar
To know more about Altair Inspire and its capabilities, join our webinar
Topic: Design Low cost, Light Weight Manufacturable 3D Prints.
Date: 19th May 2022 Time: 11:00 Am EST
Presented By : Benoit Gervais & Syed Ali– Application Engineers at Futurescape
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