Hypersizer Pro 5.3.29

Extend the capabilities of your existing software. Whether you're using CAD (such as CATIA or Pro-E), a finite element modeler (such as PATRAN or FEMAP), or FEA (such as NASTRAN or Abaqus), achieving a realistic, fully-optimized and manufactureable design requires virtually endless and costly hours of manual calculations, offline spreadsheets, model re-meshing, and long running batch jobs. HyperSizer® begins where FEA ends, by verifying structural integrity with the required calculations to predict all potential failure modes for all load cases, and identifying negative margins-of-safety. To resolve these negative margins, or to simply find a lighter-weight design, HyperSizer will optimize, or ‘size’, your design by surveying literally millions of candidate dimensions and laminates, and finding optimum variables down to the ply level — in a matter of minutes.

Import a coarsely-meshed finite element model (FEM) directly into HyperSizer along with the corresponding FEA-computed loads. Select from HyperSizer's integrated database of composite materials or your own user-defined custom layups. Perform literally hundreds of different failure analyses to establish structural integrity of your design, and optimize for reduced weight and automatic FEM resizing. When complete, generate a stress report in Word to document equations and intermediate analysis steps required for airworthiness certification.

Optimize to quickly determine the lightest weight combination of material systems, panel concepts, and ply layups for the complete structure in an interactive graphical environment. Optimize not only solid laminates, but also cross sectional geometric dimensions of sandwich and stiffened panels (height, stiffener spacing, etc.) including all of the layup ply angles and stacking sequences of the individual stiffened panel laminate layers (skin, flange, web, etc). Produce practical layups that can be manufactured with the least amount of ply drop-offs. Automatically sequence layups to be compatible across asurface area with the most continuous tool-side plies for both the skin and stiffener.