Software Comparison
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| Reduce Weight | HyperSizer Express | HyperSizer Pro | HyperX |
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| HyperSizer (1995 - 2021) is the predecessor to HyperX (2021 - Present) | |||
| 50 Panel and Beam Concepts | |||
| Composite laminate stiffness formulation and failure analyses | | | |
| Composite and metal sandwich panel specific stiffness formulation and failure analyses | | | |
| Composite and metal stiffened panel specific stiffness formulation and failure analyses | | | |
| Composite and metal beam specific stiffness formulation and failure analyses | | | |
| FEM Joints | |||
| Point joints for connector elements (e.g. Nastran CBUSH, Abaqus CONN3D2) | |  | |
| Edge line joints: one-member (loads terminating) and two-member (loads passing through) | | ||
| Edge and point joint load processing techniques such as element by element, element average, peak element, and statistical | | ||
| Bolted Joints | |||
| Industry-standard preloaded fastener analysis (NASA 5020 method) | | | |
| Fastener bearing and bearing-bypass for laminate analysis | | | |
| Single, double, and triple shear joints | | | |
| Applicable to edge joints and point joints | | ||
| Integrated database of commonly used vendor data of rivets, Hi-Loks, and threaded fasteners | | ||
| Joint stiffnesses quantified and applied to Nastran PBUSH properties in FEM update | | ||
| Sizing of fastener type, diameter, spacing and rows | | ||
| Visual workflow within user interface - including tree interaction with FEM view | | ||
| Bonded Joints | |||
| Linear and nonlinear adhesive material models | | | |
| Analyses include linear/nonlinear peel and interlaminar shear stresses | | | |
| Virtual Crack Closure Technique, VCCT, to account for the requirement of assumed undetected crack in the bond line | | | |
| Stiffened panel bond between skin and attached flange | | | |
| Many joint configurations: (single lap, double strap, clevis, stepped lap, doubler) | | ||
| Sizing of adhesive material and thickness, bond overlap length, and taper | | ||
| Visual workflow within user interface - including tree interaction with FEM view | | ||
| Composites | |||
| Sizing with Effective Laminates (EL) – only laminate thickness and ply angle % are defined | | | |
| Sizing with Discrete Laminates (DL) – candidate laminates are fully defined with a prescribed stacking order | | | |
| Sizing with Laminate Families (LF) –candidate laminates are fully defined with a prescribed stacking order and a ply sequence (see below) | | | |
| Design Sizing Optimization | |||
| Zone based - Rapid sizing of plates, laminates, sandwich, and stiffened panels | | | |
| Element based - Rapid sizing of plates and laminates | | | |
| Detailed sizing zone based | | | |
| All panel and beam failure analyses, including customer plugins, control sizing resulting in positive margins-of-safety to all load cases | | | |
| All bolted and bonded failure analyses control sizing resulting in positive margins- of-safety to all load cases | | ||
| FEA eigenvalue buckling stiffness optimization to required eigenvalue for all modes | | | |
| FEA stiffness optimization to required deflection | | | |
| Optimize laminate FEM zone boundaries interactively | | | |
| Organic global ply shape optimization | | | |
| Real-time weight-vs-producibility design studies with pareto frontiers | | ||
| Dashboard Design Alternatives | |||
| Web browser ‘Dashboard’ for plots of project results such as weight trends saved permanently in a cloud or company server database | | ||
| Shorten Schedule | HyperSizer Express | HyperSizer Pro | HyperX |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workflow | |||
| Change design inputs and rerun to get immediate result update without having to rerun an entire FEA | | | |
| Seamlessly transition between analysis and design optimization | | | |
| Large FEM management | | ||
| Enterprise-level database management | | ||
| Analysis, Design, and Load Properties | |||
| Fast and flexible creation, assignment, and visualization of design and analysis inputs via “properties” | | ||
| “Drag-n-drop" analysis, design, and load properties directly onto FEM zones through either the graphics viewport or tree nodes | | ||
| Robust and traceable zone-property assignment | | ||
| User Interface | |||
| FEM centric user interface. User interacts with the FEM to apply and select data | | ||
| Immediate synchronization feedback between viewport and tree | | ||
| Four separate and dockable "Tree" windows for: Structure, Property, FEM, and CAD data | | ||
| Filtered search of tree entities | | ||
| "Watch Window" for viewing and extracting inputs and outputs in a tabular format, interactive with viewport | | ||
| Radial menu for quick “how" and "what" selections | | ||
| Space Mouse support | | ||
| Organized main ribbon for primary features such as model setup, sizing, etc. | | ||
| Visualization | |||
| 2D visual of stiffened cross sections with ply layers displayed for both skin and stiffener | | | |
| 3D visual of sequenced plies across surface zones | | | |
| 3D visual of sandwich cores with tapers | | ||
| 3D visual of sequenced plies from core ramp facesheets to solid laminate edge bands | | ||
| 3D visual of stiffened panel and beam cross sections on the FEM viewport | | ||
| Enhanced plotting options for both input and outputs using legend | | ||
| Data probe (min/max labels) to quickly query data inputs and outputs directly on the model | | ||
| Distance measuring tool | | ||
| Enterprise Use Case | |||
| Material database with metal, sandwich core, and composite ply and laminate based allowables with correction factors | | | |
| Database template with 'company-specific' materials, designs, and analysis policy to distribute within stress group | | | |
| Company to Group to Engineer Database split up process with controlled data migration path | | | |
| Tools to merge individual engineer results back into group database and deconflict duplicate IDs | | ||
| FEM Workflow | |||
| FEM import of Nastran and Abaqus models | | | |
| FEA loads processing of Nastran and Abaqus models | | | |
| FEM update with sized panels and beams | | | |
| FEM reimport (element based or property based) | | | |
| FEM Import of preprocessor model organization entities: sets, components, assemblies, include files | | ||
| Enhanced user options to control how material data is exported to the FEM | | ||
| Faster import and visualization and tracking of processed FEM entities | | ||
| Filtering mechanisms to control imported FEM entities | | | |
| Large, High Fidelity FEMs | |||
| High performance graphics to handle models with millions of elements (magnitudes larger than HyperSizer) | | ||
| New database technology for terabytes of ‘Big Data.’ (Previous HyperSizer database limit 2GB) | | ||
| Filtering mechanisms to control imported FEM entities | | | |
| Tools | |||
| Integrated Help system | | | |
| Analysis method documentation | | | |
| HyperFEA™ for auto execution and monitoring FEA runs. Auto iteration with sizing | | | |
| HyperFEMgen™ for auto generation of local study models including mesh generation, property assignments, applied loads, and boundary conditions. | | | |
| API for automation via scripting | | | |
| Test Like You Fly (TLYF) capability, which includes flight load enveloping with test loads and corresponding reporting | | ||
| Test optimizer tool for defining optimum test loads to envelope flight loads | | ||
| Test database for collection of test results, categorized by failure mode. Direct comparison to analysis predictions | | ||
| Section cut analysis and sizing - interactive with FEM view and tree. All engineering calculations (EA, EI, GJ) | | | |
| Automated zone generation to split up large FEM properties where they connect with underlying substructure, and resulting auto calculation of span lengths | | | |
| Process monitor that interactively reports progress of running sizing/analysis, including intermediate results and warnings/errors | | ||
| Improve Producibility | HyperSizer Express | HyperSizer Pro | HyperX |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laminate Families | |||
| Laminate Families (LF) – Native generation and sizing with a producible set of sequenced plies that make discretely defined laminate candidates | | ||
| Laminate family sizing of solid laminates, sandwich, and stiffened panels (including both skins and stiffeners) | | | |
| Main stacking sequences are generated automatically from rapid sizing results, using standard or user-defined stacking rules | | ||
| Laminate families are generated automatically from main stacking sequences using different drop patterns like diamond, hourglass, interleave, and pyramid | | ||
| Company-specific laminate families can be imported directly from Excel spreadsheet | | | |
| Multiple Laminate families can be sized simultaneously and be used with pareto frontier design studies | | ||
| Ply Sequencing and Laydown Shape | |||
| Ply sequencing with user-specified emphasis on weight vs manufacturability | | | |
| Ply shape producibility scoring | | ||
| Interactive tools for modifying/cleaning up ply shapes | | ||
| Laminate Producibility Trends | |||
| Integrated design study: Ply angle precent Pareto Frontier plots | | ||
| Integrated design study: Laminate family Pareto Frontier plots | | ||
| Stiffened Panels | |||
| Integrated geometric ratio (Ri) checks for fabrication constraints. Corresponding watch window reporting | | ||
| CAD/CAM Interface | |||
| Import of simulated AFP fiber directions for use in per-ply, per-element analysis | | ||
| Export of HyperX-optimized ply boundaries in generic CAD formats | | ||
| Achieve Certification | HyperSizer Express | HyperSizer Pro | HyperX |
|---|---|---|---|
| Certification Steps | |||
| Consistent and repeatable analysis results that are traceable and easy to interrogate | | | |
| Aerospace industry standard loads processing and analysis approaches | | | |
| Clear documentation available for each stiffness formulation, load processing, and failure analysis methods | | | |
| Stiffened Panel Segment Analysis | |||
| Stiffened panels as skin and stringer structures assembled to define panel segments, consistent with traditional aerospace industry analysis. This approach uses discrete stiffener modeling (DSM) | | | |
| Improved creation/editing/visualization of DSM segments | | ||
| Improved selection and interaction through trees and viewport | | ||
| Analysis | |||
| Analysis plugins for methods customization | | | |
| Watch window for viewing analysis specific data – with direct interaction with FEM viewer | | ||
| Analysis Property paradigm for failure criteria assignment onto FEM with visual verification | | ||
| Metal Specific Analyses | |||
| Single-sided and double-sided machining concepts | | | |
| NACA traditional buckling analysis | | | |
| Plasticity and in-plane bending loading buckling analysis | | | |
| Composite Specific Analyses | |||
| Traditional ply-based composite strength analyses | | | |
| Industry laminate-based strength analysis with test data corrections | | | |
| Stress Reports | |||
| Excel spreadsheet summaries | | | |
| Excel spreadsheet analysis details | | | |
| Word doc with sample calculations | | | |
| Improved report controls and format | | ||
| Detailed load processing reporting for joints | | ||
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