SimSolid in Action: Heavy Equipment Manufacturing

Accelerate Heavy Equipment Design with Faster, Smarter Simulation

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Heavy equipment, truck, and trailer manufacturers work with massive CAD assemblies, variant-heavy designs, and compressed development cycles. Traditional simulation tools can’t keep up. Altair SimSolid was built for your world — no meshing, no geometry simplification, and no delays.

Whether you’re validating a suspension bracket, optimizing a trailer chassis, or comparing load cases across truck frame designs, SimSolid delivers accuracy at the speed your programs demand.

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Don-Bur | Faster, lighter, stronger vehicle design

Challenge:
As one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of commercial trailers and rigid truck bodies, Don-Bur engineers faced time-consuming simulation workflows. Traditional FEA methods required extensive meshing and simplification, slowing down design iterations and delaying delivery on custom-built vehicles.

Impact with Altair SimSolid:
By adopting Altair SimSolid, Don-Bur engineers can now analyze full trailer assemblies directly from CAD in just minutes—no meshing, no geometry cleanup. This meshless simulation approach drastically reduced iteration time, increased confidence in early design decisions, and enabled faster delivery of stronger, lighter, and more efficient vehicle structures.

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Heavy Truck Frame Simulation – From CAD to Results in 10 Minutes

Watch Altair's Michael Johnson, Technical Director, demonstrate a structural assessment of three heavy truck frame design variants - going from complete, unsimplified CAD to results in just 10 minutes. Designed for real-world CAD complexity.

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PROVEN RESULTS ACROSS LEADING HEAVY EQUIPMENT ORGANIZATIONS

Suspensys | Pneumatic Suspension Brackets

Challenge: Suspensys needed to redesign a highway trailer pneumatic suspension bracket to improve rigidity and durability while reducing weld failures. Traditional FEM-based workflows were slow, requiring extensive meshing and long computation times, limiting design exploration.

Impact of SimSolid: By applying SimSolid’s meshless simulation, Suspensys reduced analysis time from over 7 hours to just 7 minutes—62× faster—while maintaining accuracy within 5%. This enabled multiple design iterations, resulting in a stiffer bracket with 20% fewer welds and improved overall performance.

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MODULIFT | Heavy-Lift Frame Optimization

Design engineers at MODULIFT rapidly iterated on complex lifting frames — cutting 70% off development timelines while maintaining stress accuracy without CAD cleanup.