The company’s VABS software has officially launched as the latest addition to the APA, enabling rigorous simulation of composite rotor blades, tubes, other slender structures.
According to Altair, the APA is a platform which “offers on-demand access to a broad spectrum of software applications from over 55 companies participating in the APA. Customers can leverage a wide range of software tools from a centralized source, helping them reduce time to market, increase intelligent design, and make smarter decisions faster.”
The latest to join the APA, VABS is a general-purpose, cross-sectional analysis tool for computing beam properties, as well as 3D stresses and strains of slender composite structures, commonly called beams. As such, VABS is a beam theory which can achieve the fidelity of detailed 3-dimensional finite element analysis (3D FEA), but it saves orders of magnitude in computing time.
VABS offers analysis for computing beam properties and 3D stresses and strains of composite beam.
VABS offers an unprecedented combination of efficiency and accuracy for composite beam modelling, enabling engineers to consider more design options and arrive at the best solution more quickly. Design and validation of structures through simulation also helps also reduce reliance on costly and time-consuming experiments.
“We are excited to join the APA and look forward to complementing the powerful capabilities available from Altair’s tools, particularly for users seeking to optimize accuracy and efficiency in their simulation of composite rotor blades and other advanced slender structures,” said Allan Wood, president and CEO of AnalySwift. “Now in the APA, VABS is integrated with the Altair software suite, including the HyperMesh and OptiStruct products.”
“A long-time tool of choice for rigorous simulation of composite helicopter and wind turbine rotor blades, VABS also quickly and accurately calculates sectional properties for propellers, wing sections, landing gear, golf club shafts, fishing rods, and prosthetics,” said Dr Wenbin Yu, CTO of AnalySwift. “It can also handle other slender composite structures such as tubes, columns, shafts, rods, bridges, and beams. Any industry that uses slender components made from composites can leverage the capabilities of VABS, especially aerospace, wind energy, automotive, sporting goods, construction, medical, defense, and electrical.”
