All of this was done using Altair® Radioss®, our leading analysis solution to evaluate and optimize product performance for highly nonlinear problems under dynamic loadings. Used worldwide across all industry sectors, Radioss improves the crashworthiness, safety, and manufacturability of complex designs. It enables understanding and efficient predictions of combined multiphysics behaviors in complex environments, such as crashworthiness.
It's the ideal solver to find out how far an historical weapon of war, the fearsome trebuchet, can launch a car, followed up by a detailed analysis of the resulting wreckage.
After all, it’s a well-known adage that “"Flying is not dangerous, it's crashing that's dangerous.”
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