MSC Nastran
MSC Nastran is a multidisciplinary structural analysis application used by engineers to perform static, dynamic, and thermal analysis across the linear and nonlinear domains, complemented with automated structural optimization and award-winning embedded fatigue analysis technologies, all enabled by high-performance computing.
- First a contract was awarded to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to develop the software. The first name used for the program during its development in the 1960s was GPSA an acronym for General Purpose Structural Analysis.
- The eventual formal name approved by NASA for the program, NASTRAN, is an acronym formed from NASA StRucture Analysis.
- The NASTRAN system was released to NASA in 1968. In the late 1960s, the MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation (MSC) started to market and support its own version of NASTRAN, called MSC/NASTRAN (which eventually became MSC.Nastran).
- The original software architecture was developed by Joe Mule (NASA) and Gerald Sandler (NASA).
- Commercial versions of NASTRAN are currently available from MSC Software (MSC Nastran), NEi Software (NEi Nastran) and Siemens PLM Software (NX Nastran).
Automated Structural Shape Optimization
LG Assembly Modeling
Fatigue Analysis – Truck Cab
Fuselage Section and Wing Box
Event Simulation – Pre-Stressing, Fan Blade Out, Wind Milling
Non-Linear & Linear Structural Analysis
Composite Modeling & Analysis
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