In design engineering, lightweighting refers to removing mass or weight from a physical product in the design stage, often via topology optimization that removes unneeded mass in structural elements or by using internal lattice structures to replace solids.
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Sticking Up for Lightweight Materials
Use of adhesive-bonded structures increases to enable more manufacturing with lightweight materials.
Design
Pailton Engineering Takes on Lightweight Military Vehicle Project
The team at Pailton Engineering received a new project request, regarding a tender for a military-grade drag link assembly.
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Tests Show Strength of Tri-Mack’s Overmolded Thermoplastic Composite Hybrid Bond
The data helps validate the performance of hybrid composites, which are of particular interest in aerospace and other industries where...
Design
ParaMatters Releases Autonomous Topology Optimizer
ParaMatters' CogniCAD is a cloud-based, cognitive design platform that is capable of automatically generating additive manufacturing for high-performance, lightweighted structures...
Design
Generative Design: Advice from Algorithms
Design engineers face new challenges in working with computation-driven design software.
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7 First Steps to Design for Additive Manufacturing
Design for additive manufacturing looks at the bare-bones function of a part and how to produce it via additive manufacturing.
PLM
Integrating Legacy Data: A Perennial PLM Pain Point
Despite a flurry of migration tools and advancements in core PLM platforms, migrating legacy data remains a costly and complex...
Design
Altair Doles Out Enlighten Awards for Innovation in Automotive Lightweighting
FCA, Toyota, Faurecia and AP&T recipients of the 5th annual Altair Enlighten Awards; Honda and Constellium were runners-up in...
Prototype/Manufacture
How Light-Weighted Airplane Seats Can Save Airlines $200 Million
No normal airplane seat frame: this one has been light-weighted using lattice and surface optimization, meaning an algorithm in Autodeskâ€...
Prototype/Manufacture
Student Racecar’s 3D-Printed Steering Shaft Bearing Reduces Weight
The Formula Student team from TU Darmstadt is driving with aluminum components from additive manufacturing at Heraeus.
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