Altair OptiStruct is a groundbreaking structural solver that combines optimization with comprehensive analysis capabilities to drive lightweight and efficient product designs. Trusted by leading industries worldwide, OptiStruct delivers highly scalable solutions for linear and nonlinear problems across disciplines like statics, dynamics, vibrations, acoustics, fatigue, heat transfer, and multiphysics. With its proprietary enhancements to NASTRAN and advanced nonlinear formulations, OptiStruct ensures accuracy, speed, and scalability for CPU and GPU-based workflows. Known for its pioneering optimization technology, OptiStruct includes topology, shape, and size optimization, offering innovative features like fail-safe topology and multi-material optimization. It also integrates advanced material support for composites and additive manufacturing. The single-model multi-attribute workflow minimizes errors and streamlines processes across multiple disciplines, while specialty solvers for vibrations, acoustics, and thermomechanics provide real-world multiphysics insights. OptiStruct remains at the forefront of structural design, empowering engineers to validate performance and optimize for next-generation innovations.

Features:

• Linear and Nonlinear Analysis: Enhanced NASTRAN-based solutions for deformation, strength, and modern nonlinear analyses with contact, bolts, hyperelastic materials, and thermal modeling.
• Optimization Technology: Includes industry-first fail-safe topology, shape, size, and multi-material optimization for lightweight designs.
• Vibration and Acoustics Solvers: Advanced tools like AMSES and FASTFR enable efficient diagnostics for component and full-vehicle analyses.
• Multiphysics Simulation: Thermomechanical coupling, fluid-structure, and electromagnetic-structure interactions for real-world scenarios.
• Advanced Materials and Manufacturing: Supports composite layup schedules, ply shape design, and lattice structures for additive manufacturing.
• Single-Model Multi-Attribute Workflow: Simultaneously analyze and optimize attributes like strength, fatigue, and vibrations using a unified model.