BUILT FOR IMPACT: HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPTIMIZATION WITH DEM SIMULATION

Improve material flow, material-machine interaction and durability

On Demand Webinar Series

Designing equipment to endure the abrasive, high-impact conditions of mining, construction, and road-making demands more than traditional engineering approaches.

This two-part webinar series delves into how Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulation is revolutionizing the design, testing, and optimization of heavy equipment—before it ever touches the ground.

Learn how DEM Simulation can help you to:

- Accelerate innovation while lowering testing costs.
- Improve Equipment Design and Performance.
- Reduce fuel usage, wear, and optimize for efficiency.
- Accelerate equipment design reducing assumptions taken.
- Integrate digital twins, AI, and multiphysics for smarter systems.

In the sessions, we explore how bulk materials—such as rocks, soil, ores, and aggregates—interact with machinery, and why understanding their behavior under varying conditions is critical to performance. Altair EDEM enables engineers to simulate and analyse these interactions virtually, providing valuable insights that enhance reliability, capacity, and efficiency.

Explore how DEM Simulation in the design process leads to smarter decisions, reduced prototyping costs, and faster development cycles.

Each session will last 1 hour and include a live Q&A with our technical experts.

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Optimizing Mining Equipment

Get clarity where physical testing is costly or limited and evaluate designs and optimize the equipment and processes like the material flow through crushers and size distribution obtained, or wear prediction in dump trucks.

This session provides you

A brief technology introduction
Real-world mining applications:
Crushing & screening, wheel loader and dump truck performance, feeder, chute, and mill optimization, boring and other material handling analysis
Advanced applications:
Multiphysics with Structure and Fluid interaction
Speedup Simulations using reduced-order models
Optimizing equipment efficiently with AI trained with DEM data

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Optimizing Construction & Road Making Equipment

Get unmatched insights into how grab buckets, wheel loaders, excavators and others perform under realistic material loading and movement conditions.

This session combines foundational knowledge with real-world applications, including:

A brief technology introduction
Construction and Road-Making

Advanced applications:

Coupling DEM with multiphysics Simulation
Using reduced-order models for faster design iterations
Applying machine learning/AI to DEM-generated data for predictive modeling and decision support

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Speaker

Ignacio Diez Alonso

Senior Solutions Engineer

Altair

Since joining Altair EDEM in 2019, Ignacio Diez Alonso has helped engineering teams apply Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulation to model bulk material behavior in industries like mining, construction, and heavy machinery. As a Senior Solutions Engineer, he focuses on integrating DEM into multi-physics workflows. In this webinar, he’ll showcase advanced use cases, model setup strategies, and best practices for aligning DEM simulations with real-world performance.

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