Accelerating Design Innovation with MD Nastran
As products and assemblies become more elaborate, manufacturers need a simulation solution that can handle complex, large-scale problems with ease and accuracy.
MD Nastran – Multidiscipline Simulation from the Industry Leader
Delivering the most comprehensive set of simulation and analysis technologies available anywhere, MD Nastran offers true multidiscipline simulation in one, fully-integrated system. It is the most powerful and widely-used simulation solution in the world, and has been the simulation product of choice for over four decades.
Comprehensive Tools for Next-Generation Design and Development
Designed for manufacturers who need to perform interoperable, multidisciplinary analyses on ever-more complex models, MD Nastran offers key capabilities that drive efficiency and streamline processes:
- Broad Analysis Capabilities – Supports key engineering disciplines that provide the basis for a superior multidiscipline simulation system
- Integration – Unparalleled support for interaction between multiple disciplines in simulations that facilitates true multidisciplinary analysis and optimization
- Optimization – Combined sizing, shape, and topology optimization with a unique optimization sequence for combining varied engineering events
- High Performance Computing – Optimized for parallel and 64-bit supercomputing environments
- Common Analysis Data Model – Single, common analysis data model
Discover the full range of benefits MD Nastran can bring to your product design effort. Application
The Only True Multidiscipline Simulation System
MD Nastran combines best-in-class solver technologies – Nastran, Marc, Dytran, Adams, and LS-Dyna – into one, fully-integrated, multidiscipline simulation solution for the manufacturing enterprise. These highly-tuned, state-of-the-art solvers offer faster analysis times, support very large models, and enable more complex modeling, including:
- Linear & Nonlinear Static
- Vibration Characteristics
- Linear & Nonlinear Dynamic
- Steady State & Transient Thermal
- Linear & Nonlinear Buckling
- Design Optimization & Sensitivities
- Topology Optimization
- Rotordynamics
- Aeroelasticity
- Acoustics
- Parallel Capability (SMP & DMP)
- Dynamic Design Analysis Method (DDAM)
- Implicit Nonlinear with Contact
- Explicit Nonlinear Crash and Impact
- Direct Matrix Abstraction Programming (DMAP)
- Advanced Connectors for Assemblies
Comprehensive Support for Industry-Specific Simulations
Ideal for highly-engineered products such as automobiles, airplanes, heavy equipment, medical equipment, electronics, and other complex products, MD Nastran supports a number of industry-specific processes through its integrated disciplines. For example:
- Noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) and acoustics for automotive design.
- Strength and structural dynamics of an aircraft fuselage, wings and flaps, and landing gear.
- Effects of temperature fluctuations from convection, conduction, advection, and radiation in consumer electronic devices.
Benefits
Measurable Results for Competitive Success
With its unique multidiscipline approach, comprehensive capabilities, and best-in-class solvers, MD Nastran is the gold standard for market-changing design innovation. By offering the critical capability of parallel design simulation, MD Nastran enables:
Improved Engineering Productivity
Unify silos of expertise, reduce dependency on disconnected point solutions, and vastly improve analyst efficiency by enabling and managing a broad range of multidisciplinary analysis and optimization capabilities in a single simulation environment and through the support for common analysis data models.
Accelerated Time-To-Market
Rapid insight into overall design performance enables faster design cycles and reduces the time-to-solution cycle up to 50%.
Reduced Manufacturing Costs
Design behavior is understood much earlier in the process, enabling defects to be identified and corrected before design approval. Likewise, manufacturing suitability is determined earlier, optimizing cycle time, reducing scrap, and eliminating investment in unnecessary equipment.
Optimal Product Quality and Lower Warranty Costs
With precise representation of complex interactions between disciplines, simulation results more accurately reflect real-life results, thereby enabling better design decision and eliminating unexpected operational faults during use.
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