Hyperworks helps design race-winning yacht
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Altair Engineering product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Jul 22, 2009
Altair Engineering has announced that its Hyperworks CAE platform has been used by ABstructures to structurally design and optimise the winning yacht in the Volvo Ocean Race, Ericsson 4.
The yacht claimed victory in the Volvo Ocean Race on 27 June 2009 in St Petersburg, Russia, after eight months and more than 37,000 nautical miles sailed around the world under harsh conditions.
HyperWorks CAE was used to structurally design and optimise the winning yacht in the Volvo Ocean Race
The Hyperworks simulation suite also was used in the development of Ericsson 3 - the first launched Ericsson Race Team boat, which came in fourth this year.
ABstructures has employed Hyperworks to design and optimise the carbon structures of both Ericsson yachts and has achieved fundamental structural improvements compared to the older-generation yachts that competed in the 2004 edition of the race.
The combination of the latest CAE technology and the hands-on experience of ABstructures' designers has enabled the engineering company to deliver the best design for lightweight structural projects.
'We have been using Hyperworks for a long time, in many projects - with ABstructures as well as within former work projects,' said Dr Andrea Avaldi, managing director, ABstructures.
'I like the software suite because it enables us to handle most of the development tasks in structural design within one user interface and under the same license agreement.
'Thanks to Hyperworks, we could achieve a weight reduction of about 10 per cent on all the structurally important parts of this campaign's Ericsson yachts,' he added.
'Hyperworks provides the tools needed to drive an optimised design process and, thanks to the licensing system that opens up a world of CAE tools, engineers only pay for what they use,' said Dr Michael Hoffmann, Altair vice-president for EMEA.
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