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Particles in Motion: The Many Uses of Altair EDEM in Industry
Particles in Motion: The Many Uses of Altair EDEM in Industry
March 09, 2023

DEM, or Discrete Element Method, is a numerical modeling technique used to simulate the behavior of particles or granula...

Simulating Home Alone Traps with Altair SimSolid
Simulating Home Alone Traps with Altair SimSolid
December 22, 2022

As an 80s baby I grew up watching the holiday movie, Home Alone, almost every single Christmas season. I have continued ...

The Altair Toolbox: 10 Essential Tools
The Altair Toolbox: 10 Essential Tools
December 07, 2022

The Altair Engineering portfolio includes more than one hundred different software tools to solve thousands of engineeri...

Comparing Altair Inspire, SimSolid and SimLab
Comparing Altair Inspire, SimSolid and SimLab
July 08, 2022

When would I use Inspire vs SimSolid vs SimLab? Altair has many capable tools in its structural engineering suites, and ...

Altair SimSolid: Working with Contacts
Altair SimSolid: Working with Contacts
March 13, 2022

Altair SimSolid is a structural simulation that runs its calculation based on original CAD geometry. The geometry does n...