MechChem Africa July 2017

⎪ Computer-aided engineering ⎪

Artemis Racing and designing the difference

Artemis Racing is a professional sailing team that challenged for the 35 th America’s Cup. Representing the Royal Swedish Yacht Club, the fifth-oldest yacht club in the world, Artemis Racing teamed up withAltair for the development of the daggerboard design.

A ltair together with Artemis Racing have applied design and simulation technology to help place Artemis Racing in the 35 th America’s Cup. The design of the daggerboards – foils that lift the boat out of the water to break the drag barrier – will be a critical differentiator between the competing teams as they have a significant impact on a boat’s performance. TheAltair andArtemisRacing technical teams have placed a great deal of emphasis on per- fecting these composite material structures. “Technology plays a huge part in the America’sCup,” says IainPercy, teammanager and on-water tactician for Artemis Racing. “It’s been said the fastest boat has won the America’s Cup for the last 160 years and I’m not sure that is about to change. The dagger- board is theappendage thatwefly theboat off and it transfers side force into driving force. Millimetres of difference on the daggerboard make knots of difference to the speed, so the optimal manufacturing and design of these boards is absolutely critical.” The teams have focused much of their ef- fort on optimising the strength, shapes and thicknesses, andhowwater andwind interact with daggerboards using a simulation-driven design approach. To accomplish this, Artemis Racing used several Altair technologies from the HyperWorks ® suite including: • The HyperMesh ® complex composite ma- terial finite element model development software.

• OptiStruct ® for structural analysis and optimisation. • AndRADIOSS ® for nonlinear, largedeflec- tion analysis. Two sets of daggerboards were created to withstand unexpected challenges from mother nature–onepair designed toperform optimally in heavier winds and waves and another for lighter wind andwave conditions – both designed to rapidly lift the boat from the water with minimum drag. “The tools that we use are at the forefront of the industries,” says Brett Ellis, lead engi- neering for daggerboards and rudders. “We are working to tight tolerances and small differences in section shapes on the dagger- boards can lead to relatively big gains on the water. We are all pushing hard and pushing the design limits to win that America’s Cup.” “The technology involved in designing these boats is a critical component to provid- ing a speed edge for the teams vying for the win,” adds Uwe Schramm, chief technology officer, Altair. “Itwas anhonour to collaborate with the Artemis Racing design team and ap- ply our design and simulation technologies to create a world-class sailing vessel.” Artemis Racing represents Kungliga Svenska Segel Sällskapet (KSSS – the Royal Swedish Yacht Club), the fifth-oldest yacht club in the world. Artemis Racing has a multinational crew comprised of the most successful and respected sailors and designers in the world. The sailing

more advance studies, includingmultiphys- ics optimisation tools. “We wanted to develop an easy to use software without compromising accuracy. FluxMotor helps reduce computing time to a minimum while still maintaining accurate results,” explains Fabrice Marion, program manager for FluxMotor at Altair. q team members have participated in 12 America’s Cup campaigns and competed in 21 Olympics Games, winning 11 medals, seven of which were Gold. Additionally, Artemis’ engineers, boat builders and sup- port teamhave been involved in64America’s cup campaigns, including 14 victories. Altair has released a short film documentary titled “Surface To Air” that was developed to celebrate the hard work and innovation that is positioning Artemis Racing to win the 35 th America’s Cup. The film highlights the pro- found impact that simulation-driven design has on the development of the Artemis boat, available for viewing at www.designthedif- ference.com. q Artemis Racing’s Yacht design for the 35 th Ameri- ca’s Cup incorporated daggerboards designed with Altair’s simulation software solutions.

Motor pre-design tool increases efficiency Altair has announced the release of FluxMotor™, a dedicated platform focus- ing on the pre-design of electric rotating machines. FluxMotor is part of Altair’s HyperWorks ® CAE Suite, which includes Flux™ the leading software for low frequen- cyelectromagnetic and thermal simulations. The software tool allows users to design and create machines from standard or cus- tomised parts, as well as to intuitively add windings andmaterials to run a selection of tests and compare machine capacity. Robotics, who was involved in the testing phase of the new software together with the development team. Appealing to a broad range of users such as designers and manufacturers of electrical rotating motors, the software

allows motor specialists to define machines and assess their tech- nical-economic potential within minutes. Flux Motor’s efficient working environment ensures a better visualisation of machine performances, enabling fast and accurate computations that can easily be connected to Flux finite element software and other tools within the HyperWorks suite for

“FluxMotor is an easy-to-use and ef- ficient dedicated pre-design tool, targeting designers from all sectors related to the electricmotorsfield,”saysGregoryMichaud, electromagnetic engineer at Softbank

FluxMotor helps reduce computing time to a minimum while still maintaining accurate results.

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