This is a certified course designed and offered by Zuti in collaboration with Altair Engineering. The course aims to build comprehensive skill sets in finite element modeling using HyperMesh and introduce students to analysis with Radioss-linear. The course prepares the students to successfully take up a career path in Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) and sets a solid foundation to further their skills in finite element analysis and engineering simulation.

Finite element analysis has become the primary tool of choice for the design and analysis of structural components and systems. This training course is structured to give the student a foundation in the basics of finite element analysis and the emphasis is on its practical application in validation and as a driver of design change process in product development. The course builds on real world example problems and imparts finite element model building, deck preparation, solving and interpreting the results using Altair HyperMesh and Radioss/OptiStruct solvers. The practical nature of this course makes it a powerful complement to engineering education and experience.

This course introduces engineering analysts and product design engineers with a hands-on introduction to structural optimization with Altair OptiStruct. The course is designed to give users familiarity and application of design synthesis using Topology/Topography optimization and design tuning using Size/Shape optimization techniques effectively in their design process. Optimization concepts, problem setup and result’s interpretation for different types of optimization models are discussed.

The course imparts theoretical and practical implementation of optimization techniques in the context of structural optimization. The emphasis of the course is on introducing the student to the theory and concepts of optimization with particular emphasis on convex programming for structural optimization. Also the course explores the use of global optimization techniques such as response surfaces and stochastic simulations.

The course is structured to impart and reinforce methods and techniques in Pro/Engineer to successfully complete product design tasks from capturing design intent to production drawings. Further the course builds through the detailed knowledge of the tool with an overall perspective of the product design and development process. The practice examples have been carefully created to encourage the engineer to explore the techniques in the tool and to make effective usage of the tool for mechanical product designing. Finally, the capstone project aims to bring the individual learning modules into an integrated whole and help the engineers to give shape to designs from concept through final design assembly and detailing.

Finite Element Modelling with HyperMesh is a CAE foundation course offered by Verimetrix Technologies (Training Division of Zuti Engineering Solutions) in collaboration with Altair Engineering. The course aims to build strong skill sets in finite element modeling using HyperMesh and introduce students to model debugging with OptiStruct. The course prepares the students to take up a career path in CAE and sets a solid foundation to further their skills in advanced analysis and engineering simulation.

The course is structured on Verimetrix’s successful case based learning approach. It is a combination of lectures, practical exercises and real life projects. While the carefully structured exercises help to understand and reinforce the modeling concepts using HyperMesh, the projects help the student to evolve effective strategies to solve practical problems keeping in view time and project management constraints. The course is of 4 weeks duration with 120+ contact hours.

Benefits:

• Taught by Experts - course taught by practicing engineers with extensive project experience.
• Case Based Learning Approach - helps to reinforce concepts and best practices with applications and real world orientation.
• Modular - the course is modular for clear understanding with project work.
• Exploratory - the course encourages the student to explore and discover efficient modeling approaches.
• Continuously Updated Training Material - course material is continuously updated and is taught with the latest version of the software (Altair HyperWorks v10.0).

Who Should Attend:

• Graduates and Post Graduates in Mechanical/ Production/ Aerospace Engineering
• Final year B.E/ M.E students who wish to take on project/thesis work in CAE
• Engineers working in the fields of Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering

Pre Requisites:

• None

Who Should Attend:

• The course is divided into 9 modules and aims to create a solid grounding in the usage of HyperMesh and Analysis. The course duration is 120 hours spread over 4 weeks. The course content is as follows:
• Introduction to CAE: Overview of simulation based product design and development, Engineering problem domains and solution approaches, Introduction to Altair HyperWorks and other Solvers
• User Interface: Introduction to HyperMesh Interface, HyperMesh command and session file structure, Introduction to automation framework with TCL/TK
• Geometry Cleanup: Geometric features and finite element modeling, Geometric feature suppression and reconstruction tools in HyperMesh, Geometry perpetration for various types of meshing
• Mid-Surface Extraction: Mid-surface extraction tools, Creating meshes with variable thicknesses, Strategies for mid-surface meshing of complex geometries
• Shell Meshing: Preparing geometry for shell meshing, Global and local element length, mesh transition, Quality criteria metrics, Shell meshing for parts with variable thicknesses
• Solid Meshing: Solid meshing overview, Tetrahedral and Hexahedral meshing, Block meshing, Solid meshing quality criteria metrics
• Connectors and Model Assembly: 1D elements; Scalar elements; Multi point constraints; Weld elements and assembly modeling approach; Connector panel; Model assembly debugging
• Introduction to Analysis: Mathematical preliminaries and Solid Mechanics basics; Introduction to Finite element analysis; Linear static analysis; Eigenvalue and Normal Modes analysis
• Special Topics: Morphing and Finite element model parametrization; HyperBeam; Industry best practices for FE modeling.

If you would like to seek more information on this training, please send an e-mail to the Training Administrator at  training@zuti.com.