At the beginning of the conventional design process, the design
engineer often defines new components using the experience and the results
gained from existing designs. This results in an evolution process that
might require several manual design iterations and a long process development
time. Optimization tools provide the engineer with an automatic procedure
to develop fundamentally new designs and shorten the development process.
For sheet metal structures ideal sheet thicknesses according to the
existing load and boundary conditions must be derived. With SIMULIA Tosca Structure,
it is possible to carry out sizing optimization in the existing CAE environment.
Within this process shell thicknesses are calculated automatically
to obtain optimal sheet metal structures.