Key Benefits

Multidisciplinary Structural Analysis

Multiple analysis disciplines featured by MSC Nastran provides customers with one structural analysis solution for a wide range of engineering problems. Engineers can use a single platform to perform linear or nonlinear analysis based on multiple disciplines – from static and dynamic (NVH & Acoustics included) to thermal and buckling. Thus, dependency on multiple structural analysis programs from vendors is reduced.

Structural Assembly Modelling

Structural systems, consisting of multiple components, need to be analysed as a whole. The various methods to join multiple components for system-level structural analysis featured by MSC Nastran helps expedite enmeshing with Permanent Glue, enabling your connection with incongruent meshes that would need time when you go with traditional structural analysis solution. It not only saves time spent in constructing assemblies that consist of welds or fasteners via specialized connector elements but also speeds up the re-analysis of large assemblies by constructing Super elements. The Automatic Contact Generation feature to automatically create the contact bodies and define the contact relationship between them and can also help increase productivity.

Automated Design Optimization

Structural optimization is a crucial element in product development. However, it is an iterative process and requires lots of manual effort. MSC Nastran includes optimization algorithms that seek optimal configurations automatically in a permitted design space. MSC Nastran helps engineers optimize stress, mass, fatigue, etc. while other features such as shape optimization help in enhancing the shape, topology optimization helps remove excess and unnecessary volume, topometry optimization helps find optimal composite laminate ply thicknesses.

High-performance Computing

High-performance Computing capabilities of MSC Nastran empowers engineers by solving larger problems faster. MSC Nastran benefits manufacturers with multi-core and multi-node clusters along with parallelization technologies including Shared Memory Parallel and Distributed Memory Parallel. The Automated Solver Selection feature helps engineers obtain higher performance for large models and accelerate simulation time, based on the analysis specifications like a solution or element types, available memory, etc.

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Salient Modules

MSC Nastran Advanced Nonlinear Analysis –

The MSC Nastran Advanced Nonlinear module offers robust features to address the biggest pain points involving advanced materials, the complex interaction between various components, and large deformations. The single solver helps in minimizing training effort so engineers will achieve higher productivity by easily being able to move between linear and nonlinear analysis domains as needed. This module provides users a wide range of capabilities such as solving problems with different nonlinearities such as material, contact, geometric; performing nonlinear static, modal, buckling and transient dynamic structural analyses, steady state and transient nonlinear heat transfer analysis; conducting coupled and uncoupled thermal-structural analyses; analysing damage and failure of composites and other nonlinear materials; using fracture mechanics capabilities like VCCT crack propagation and cohesive zone interface for conducting product safety studies.

MSC Nastran Embedded Fatigue

MSC Nastran Embedded Fatigue (NEF) is a pioneering durability analysis module that features the integration of fatigue calculations within MSC Nastran. Stress and fatigue calculations can occur in one SIMOPS (simultaneous operation) in effect. This is a significant step forward from GUI based fatigue processes, offering engineers innovative opportunities to improve the life of products. Capabilities include Stress life (S-N), Strain life (E-N), Multi-axial responses, Parallel processing up to 100 threads, Multiple fatigue analysis in single job submission & more.

MSC Nastran Embedded Vibration Fatigue