Designing For Optimum Composite Performance - Unlocking the Flexibility of Composite Materials

The 2nd Altair Composites Design Seminar takes place on 25th November 2008 and offers you the opportunity to experience the latest technology in composite virtual design. This free, one day seminar taking place at the Heritage Motor Centre in Warwick, UK, will provide practical insights into how this technology can directly impact your composite design process.

Composites represent an opportunity to replace metal structures with new, lightweight materials achieving product enhancement with improved performance. They are increasingly being viewed as the gateway to product innovation - composite planes, trains, automobiles and civil structures. Composites present the designer with new horizons due to the inherent versatility of the material but require an increased comprehension of manufacturability.

For over six years, Altair in collaboration with our industry partners, have been developing a revolutionary design process specifically aimed at tackling composite design challenges. Altair’s enterprise computer aided engineering (CAE) suite, HyperWorks, is now established as the leading virtual toolbox for composite design applications incorporating pre and post-processing capabilities, solvers and advanced optimisation technologies specifically developed to address the challenges of composite materials.

During this seminar, thought provoking presentations from some of Europe’s leading composite designers including Eurocopter Group, Lola Group, Gurit and Force India F1, will give you practical examples of how you can improve your design processes. The morning session demonstrates how virtual models can be efficiently generated and the resulting performance assessed. The afternoon session showcases composite optimisation techniques including material and weight reduction along with automatically determining the optimum location of laminate boundaries