Altair has developed a multi-disciplinary optimization workflow that helps clients understand structural performance sooner, accelerate design cycles, reduce costs, and validate designs virtually to minimize risk. High-performance design is a holistic, simulation-driven approach for developing safe, feasible, and robust structures.

Altair’s repeatable, customizable workflow combines wind loads with most advanced optimization techniques. Reduce the cost and time to deliver complex steel structures with automatic workflows that integrate all the major AEC structural solvers via direct link or neutral file formats, the power of size optimization for steel sections in 1D models, and topology optimization for 3D models to find the optimal load path.

Architectural firms around the world have adopted this collaborative, innovative approach, including Zaha Hadid Architects' study to generate a new structural and architectural expression for the Neue National Gallery in Berlin, Germany.

Altair’s structural engineering solutions ensure workflow productivity and data integrity with comprehensive data transfer links that manage data during consecutive import/export cycles with building information modeling (BIM) and CAD platforms. S-Frame's streamlined workflows let you perform advanced structural analysis and code performance assessments for different building materials and local design codes. S-Frame’s capabilities include:

Structural Analysis: Evaluate the effects of seismic, wind, static loads, moving loads, buckling, vibrations, and other loading conditions on a structure over time through advanced structural analysis capabilities.

Code Compliance: Comprehensive design solutions that ensure code-compliance and reporting to local design codes for steel, mass timber, reinforced concrete members, and building foundations.

Concrete Design: The ability to design and detail reinforced concrete and automatically check thousands of concrete structural elements designs at once. Produce detailed design reports that include clause references and intermediate results for regional design codes.

Mass Timber: The ability to efficiently model and analyze mass timber and hybrid structures, design timber elements and generate code-compliant design reports through a timber design solution that utilizes physical element modeling and automated meshing to save time while increasing accuracy.

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Modern façade system design requires a multi-disciplinary approach that supports all key aspects of façade engineering – structural engineering, thermal analysis, manufacturing, and protective design.

Structural Engineering: Altair’s technology streamlines structural integrity assessments, even for complex parts and large assemblies with hundreds of parts and bolts with pre-tensioning, weld lines, contacts, and friction, and has intuitive tools for both linear and non-linear analysis.

Thermal Analysis: Users can easily calculate energy consumption and thermal effects by leveraging Altair’s suite of CFD Tools.

Blast Simulation: Protective design simulation lets civil engineers predict the effects of blasts and explosions on critical structural systems.

Façade Manufacturing: Altair’s manufacturing feasibility software simulates part extrusion profiles, providing end-to-end solutions for façade development.