Applicable Industries
- Apparel
- Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Onsite Human Safety Management
- Visual Quality Detection
Services
- Testing & Certification
- Training
About The Customer
The Sports Technology Institute (STI) at Loughborough University is a world-leading research group in sports engineering and the largest in the UK. Founded in 2007, the STI has established links with a wide range of leading global brands and strategic commercial partners in the sporting goods industry. The institute's facilities are located on one site in state-of-the-art laboratories, where the team can progress from initial concept through to finished product. The STI has the capability to design, develop, prototype, test, and optimise a range of products, and also has the skills to create bespoke equipment designed to achieve the aims of a particular research project.
The Challenge
The Sports Technology Institute (STI) at Loughborough University, a leading research group in sports engineering, was faced with the challenge of generating complex human surrogate models to simulate sports impact scenarios. These scenarios are crucial for the development and testing of personal protective equipment (PPE) in sports. The human body, with its intricate tissue structures and complex anatomical geometries, is incredibly difficult to replicate accurately. The challenge was further compounded by the need for high-quality meshes that could provide a good description of these complex geometries. The quality of a mesh significantly affects model behaviour, making it a key factor in the research. The institute needed a solution that could handle these complexities and provide accurate, high-quality models for their research.
The Solution
The STI turned to Altair's HyperWorks for its enhanced meshing capabilities. HyperMesh, a component of HyperWorks, was used primarily to clean up scan geometries and provide high-quality meshes. The software's geometry editing tools enabled efficient clean-up of inconsistencies introduced when a scanned geometry was imported. This was particularly important given that all human structures used in surrogate evaluations are non-standardised shapes and often embody some missing detail. HyperMesh also provided enhanced control over features, making mesh refinements easier to conduct and manipulate for further iterations. The software proved to be a valuable tool in generating high-quality meshes that accurately described complex anatomical geometries in a computationally efficient manner. HyperWorks is expected to play an integral role in future research projects at the STI, particularly in modelling increasingly complex geometries and impact scenarios from different regions of the body.
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