Engineers and other professionals typically use lattices for structural and design use with topography and topology. The free-form structures are not possible to create using more traditional methods, thus the excitement over OptiStruct, which has just been updated with version 13.0, offering designers greater optimization for 3D printing, as well as new features for maximizing testing of complex issues regarding strength and potential for performance across a wide variety of sectors.
- Nonlinear analysis regarding large displacement, materials with hyperelastic qualities, and parallelization employing the domain decomposition method for reduced solution times
- Heat transfer analysis
- NVH (noise, vibration, and harshness) analysis, regarding BIOT and frequency-dependent material properties for frequency response analyses, and rotor dynamics for modal frequency response and complex Eigenvalue analyses
- Modeling for parts and instances in building models, subcase specific modeling to analyze multiple structures in a single solver run, global local analysis for improved solution accuracy, and periodic boundary conditions that allow one side of a model to be matched with the other one
- Optimization for grid point force response for weld life optimization, definition of external responses with use of Microsoft Excel, multiple models with common design variables in a single run, and fatigue optimization with Dang Van factor of safety constraints
Is this a product you would require in your line of work for strength optimization? Do you find the creation of the new 3D printed lattices to be something beneficial in your work, as well as the features in the new release for OptiStruct? Share your thoughts with us in the OptiStruct 13.0 forum thread over at 3DPB.com.