Accelerating Product Engineering with Computational Design

Today, engineering teams in all industries are facing continuous pressure to create higher performing products with shorter – and less expensive – development cycles. In this webinar we will share how Computational Design is helping leading engineering teams generate, visualize, explore, and evaluate vast design spaces rapidly, so they can identify better solutions to their most challenging engineering problems. This approach shifts the focus from documenting a single design idea to building flexible computational models that support broad changes in form, so you can adjust key parameters of the system and quickly evaluate varying design possibilities.

Alex Souk, Senior Mechanical R&D Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will also share how they used a computational design approach to engineer a lower-cost, lower-lead time component of a laser benchtop system currently produced using beryllium. The NASA team sought to replace beryllium with A6061-RAM2, a general-purpose additive manufacturing (AM) aluminum alloy with an elastic modulus less than half of beryllium. There is essentially no way to do this without computational design—an approach that can produce and optimize lattice networks engineered to enhance specific characteristics, such as strength and heat transfer. Alex will also share how they are constructing a systematized lattice design methodology that can be shared and reused in many other applications across NASA.