Democratizing Wheel Design - Altair Solutions Democratize Accuride's CAE Wheel Assembly Process

Accuride Corporation is a leading, global commercial and passenger vehicle component supplier and manufacturer. The company’s products include steel and aluminum vehicle wheels and wheel-end components, and assemblies for the European automotive and global agricultural, construction, and industrial equipment markets.

Accuride worked with Altair to develop an automated solution that cuts down the time teams need to spend on preparing surfaces and elements. Using the model build and assembly tools of Altair® HyperWorks®, the team developed a process that empowered engineers to manage multiple configurations, mesh variants, and part instances and become independent of the expertise of finite element (FE) specialists. By providing excellent building blocks for an automated solution, HyperWorks automates the Hexa-Mesh creation of truck and passenger car wheels based on provided user inputs. The automated HyperWorks solution enabled the Accuride team to run a complete analysis and deliver reliable results in a much shorter timeframe.