What is MSC Nastran used for?
Engineers use MSC Nastran to ensure structural systems have the necessary strength, stiffness, and life to preclude failure (excess stresses, resonance, buckling, or detrimental deformations) that may compromise structural function and safety.
What is Nastran solver?
NEi Nastran is a general purpose finite element analysis solver used to analyze linear and nonlinear stress, dynamics, and heat transfer characteristics of structures and mechanical components. It is available on a variety of platforms including 32/64-bit Windows and Linux.
What is the best free FEA software?
Code-Aster (Free, Open Source) Quality free solutions for all FEA physics is tough to find because there is so much fragmentation. Code-Aster is a free software program that offers structural analysis and thermodynamic analysis.
What’s new in MSC Nastran 2013?
The 2013 version of MSC Nastran integrates Actran’s technologies to enable MSC Nastran users perform modal frequency analysis of trimmed structures, such as a trimmed car body, for vibroacoustic simulations.
What’s new in the MSC Nastran Sol 400?
The MSC Nastran nonlinear analysis solution (SOL 400) is capable of running jobs in both distributed and shared-memory parallel modes (DMP and SMP, respectively). In this version, the DMP capabilities have been improved by making them more efficient, and by removing several limitations that existed in prior releases.
What is MSC Nastran memory management?
New Memory Management Strategy MSC Nastran memory management is geared towards minimizing memory use in order to conserve resources in a multi-user environment. Numerical methods employed in MSC Nastran allow for out-of-memory algorithms (or ‘spill logic’) enabling MSC Nastran to solve problems of virtually unlimited size.
What is an MNF file in Nastran?
Export of Adams MNF file Modal Neutral Files (MNF)are required by Adams to represent deformation in Adams flexible bodies by a set Craig-Bampton (CB) modes. MSC Nastran 2013 can now export MNF files in a nonlinear static analysis at a deformed or undeformed configuration.