Understanding Scalability in Altair Inspire Form: An Enhanced Springback Benchmark Study

Organized by The Minerals & Metals Society (TMS) as part of the biannual Numisheet Conference, presented here are the results from a 2022 benchmark study comparing springback predictions from different metal forming software vendors: Altair Inspire Form; Ansys LS-DYNA®; AutoForm Forming R10; and Stampack Xpress. During the conference, the Numisheet Benchmark Committee awarded the highest rating for the DP 980 steel, without stake beads category, to Inspire Form, which provides a complete metal stamping simulation environment.

In a follow-up exercise by Altair, included here are the results of a deeper exploration into the scalability of Inspire Form, a factor not included in the original benchmark study. By optimizing the hardware configuration, running identical simulations on a high-performance computing (HPC) appliance reduced compute time by more than 80%.