HyperSizer Material Manager™
The Material Manager provides interactive graphics for managing metals, foams, honeycomb cores, ply tapes and fabrics. You can build composite laminates with any arbitrary stacking of materials. Use native Windows cut, paste, and copy functions for quick ply insertions and layup arrangements. Calculate [A,B,D] stiffness and thermal terms and equivalent orthotropic properties. Graph temperature dependencies, failure envelopes, and stress/strain profiles interactively. Choose from many popular composite failure theories such as Tsai-Wu. Perform highly interactive 'what-if' design changes and see their effects real time. A Windows database (Access®) forms the underlying software foundation for all HyperSizer products. The open structure of the material database schema allows software developers to use it for their own tool development.
HyperSizer Basic™
All the functionality of HyperSizer Material Manager™, plus stress analysis and detailed design sizing optimization of all material types for 50 different stiffened and sandwich panels and open cross section beams. Apply general edge loadings and/or boundary conditions through the Free Body Diagram GUI, and solve for the resulting stresses and structural integrity using over 100 different built-in failure analyses. Engineers learn within seconds the strengths and weaknesses of their structural designs from the software's interactive reporting of margins-of-safety. Interactive graphics provide visual inspection of the structural concepts with drawn to scale optimum panel and beam cross sections. These features are used to quickly interpret and understand design flaws.
HyperSizer Pro™
All the functionality of HyperSizer Basic™, plus coupling with FEA for system level analysis and automatic finite element model resizing. Maintain and report results of a complete vehicle detail design. Perform advanced statistical optimization and find multiple robust optimum solutions for manufacturing producibility review. Plug-in your own analysis software to supplement HyperSizer's methods and have their results integrated with and graphically displayed in the interface.
HyperFEA™
Automatic Iteration with FEA - HyperSizer uses
FEA computed element forces to size a
structure’s panels and beams. After
optimizing a structure’s cross sectional
dimensions and selecting the optimum
materials and composite layups with
these forces, HyperSizer will generate the
FEM data for the next iteration of FEA
internal computed loads. This coupling
process has in the past been manually
iterated. Now with HyperFEA™, this
process can be automatically iterated
until convergence is achieved.
After updating the FEM element
stiffnesses, HyperFEA submits the
NASTRAN FEA solution, and reads the
results for the next HyperSizer sizing
optimization. HyperFEA also interactively
plots weights of panels and beams as it
iterates.
HyperSizer TPS™
The HyperSizer Thermal Protection System (TPS) capability is available as an add-on module to HyperSizer Pro™. HyperSizer TPS combines the disciplines of TPS analysis with structural analysis in a single program. This integrated TPS-Structures capability provides a commercial quality TPS analysis and sizing program that will become a standard analysis method for future space launch vehicles.
HyperSizer Micromechanics™
HyperSizer Micromechanics™ is an add-on module for HyperSizer Structural Sizing Software™, and was developed by integrating a powerful University/NASA developed Micromechanics analysis capability with HyperSizer. This new add-on module combines the constitutive (fiber/matrix) buildup non-linear analysis of MAC/GMC (Micromechanics Analysis Code with Generalized Method of Cells) with the data integrity and established laminate and material property editing interface of the HyperSizer product.
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