OptiAssist for VR&D Genesis 18.0
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SUMMARY
The feedback from our customers is that GRM's composite software tools have been developed by people who clearly understand the day-to-day challenges of efficiently analysing and developing composites. For over 16 years, GRM have developed the OptiAssist product, combining the analysis and optimisation capabilities of VR&D Genesis with a composite focussed user interface.
OptiAssist provides a complete FEA suite of tools to laminate, analyse, optimise, understand and communicate your developing composite designs.
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BENEFITS OF USING OPTIASSIST CAITO® OPTIMISATION SOFTWARE PRODUCTS
COMPATABILITY & PREREQUISITES
Recognising that companies often have several, establishing tools and procedures for analysing and developing composite laminates, OptiAssist is compatible with the following data:
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Using the Composite Modeller, develop your laminates in the FEA environment. Automatically manage the creation of complex analysis property data and manipulate plies using efficient functions; split, merge, map and duplicate. Using the GENESIS FEA solver, analyse and interrogate the performance of your designs. |
Laminate & Analyse Tutorial |
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Utilise ply shape and detailed laminate optiisation tools, seamlesly integrated into the analysis and laminate development environment. OptiAssist's unique strength is its combination of powerful optiisation tools with an engineer-led laminate development process, harnessing optimisation whilst creating manufacturable layups. |
Thickness Optimisation Tutorial |
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OpiAssist's Sensitivity Plotter tool automatically manages the assessment of your laminate construction, identifying, and ranking the importance of plies for each of your analysis load cases. |
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Allowing direct communication of analysis generated laminate to composite designers and manufacturing, Composite Reporter automatically generates Powerpoint and HTML plybooks, allowing markup, dimensioning and annotation of each ply. |
Free Shape Optimisaton Tutorial |
OptiAssist is used around the world as a tool to help showcase the capabilities of the latest composite materials. GRM's Japan office teamed up with Sakai Sangyo with the aim of developing a CFRP chair to demonstrate the new manufacturing possibilities of their latest materials.
Enlisting the help of Mirai Ringyo to produce the concept surface designs, OptiAssist and Genesis were used heavily throughout the development process. By using the advanced user topometry methods within OptiAssist a laminate was developed for the chair, based upon a variety of durability and strength loadcases.
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The optimisation process also identified many areas where it was possible to create many areas where it was possible to create holes, which were added ina seccond design iteration to create extra impact in the design. The final result was a lightweight CFRP chair capable of withstanding the stringent JIS regulatory loads with a safety factor of 1.3.
Throughout the 2 week laminate development process, OptiAssist Composite Reporter was used to quickly and efficiently communicate the laminate designs back to the project partners for easy feedback - bridging the gap between design, manufature and analysis. The final prototype was manufactured and displayed at "8th Highly Functional Material Week" in Osaka during May 2019.
Contact us for examples of success and to discuss your particular requirements.
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