MSC Nastran is a powerful general purpose finite element analysis solution for small to complex assemblies. A proven and standard tool in the field of structural analysis for over four decades, Nastran provides a wide range of modeling and analysis capabilities, including linear statics, displacement, strain, stress, vibration, heat transfer and more. What`s more, Nastran can handle any material type from plastic and metal to composites and hyperelastic materials.
Add new modules as you grow
Because MSC Nastran is actually a family of tightly integrated analysis modules, you can purchase exactly what you need. You can start with a basic configuration that allows you to perform linear and buckling analysis. Later, you can add additional MSC Nastran modules for heat transfer, dynamics, spot welding, aeroelasticity, and nonlinear analysis. Modules such as MSC Nastran Design Optimization and Topology Optimization and DMAP (a toolkit for creating custom solutions that work with proprietary applications) speed work by enabling you to customize analysis routines.
Work within a completely integrated environment
MSC Nastran is closely linked with the pre-processor prost-processor Patran. A wide range of third-party CAD programs also offer direct interfaces to MSC Nastran, giving you a completely integrated modeling and simulation environment to work within.
Applications
You can use MSC Nastran to determine the following:
- Strength, durability and vibration assessment of various structures such as aircrafts, car, trucks, or a train
- Structural dynamic response simulation of loads that vary with time or frequency
- Modal based analyses and NVH solutions of large systems such as in automotive and aerospace vehicle systems
- Simulation of interior acoustics for sound pressure inside a bounded domain
- Static and transient analysis of structures involving material and geometric nonlinear behavior and nonlinear boundary condition
- Advanced heat transfer analysis with contact including conduction, convection and radiation to understand the effect of temperature fluctuations in consumer electronic devices such as television or cell phone.
- Automated thermal followed by structural analysis
- Analysis of structures with rotating components
- Include the effects of aeroelasticity on structures
- Combined topology, sizing and shape optimization of structures with manufacturing constraints
Modules
MSC Nastran Basic Package includes:
- Linear Statics
- Normal Modes
- Buckling
- Connectors
- Dynamics
- Heat Transfer
- Adams integration
- Unlimited Model Size
- Direct Matrix Abstraction Programming (DMAP)
MSC Nastran Advanced Package adds:
- Aeroelasticity I
- Dynamic Design Analysis Method (DDAM)
- Shared Memory Parallel (SMP)
MSC Nastran Basic Package is a prerequisite.
MSC Nastran Nonlinear Complete adds:
- Nonlinear
- Marc Translator
- Implicit Nonlinear
- Implicit Nonlinear Shape Memory metals
- Implicit Nonlinear Hemi Cube View Factors
MSC Nastran Basic Package is a prerequisite.
Complementary MSC Nastran Modules:
- Distributed Memory Parallel (DMP)
- Automated Component Modalule Synthesis (ACMS)
- Acoustics (Interior)
- Aeroelasticity II
- Design Optimization
- Krylov Solver
- Rotor Dynamics
- Superelements
- Topology Optimization
- User Modifiable Nastran
- Implicit Nonlinear Multi-Processor
Benefits
- Simulate how a design behaves under real-world conditions without having to build costly physical prototypes.
- Obtain accurate results on design behavior with a multi-disciplinary approach that accounts for several physical interactions at the same time.
- Start off with MSC Nastran Basic and then add additional MSC Nastran modules (nonlinear, thermal, and so on) as your analysis needs grow.
- Increase your confidence in your final product design by virtually testing a design under all conceivable loading conditions.
- Minimize time spent on manual data transfers by using Nastran, a product well-integrated with MSC Software`s other simulation tools, as well as many third-party solid modeling programs.
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