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Nastran

NASTRAN is a finite element analysis (FEA) program that was originally developed for NASA in the late 1960s under United States government funding for the aerospace industry. The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation (MSC) was one of the principal and original developers of the publicly available NASTRAN code. NASTRAN source code is integrated in a number of…

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Developers
MSC Software, NEi Software, Siemens Digital Industries Software
License
Proprietary EULA
Operating system
Cross-platform
Repository
github.com/nasa/NASTRAN-95
Stable release
2014; 12 years ago (2014)
Type
Finite Element Analysis Simulator

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Nastran

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Avg. degree1.95
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related to Simcenter Nastran (formerly known as NX Nastran) · 18
Nastran → Computerized Structural Analysis, EDS, EDS/UGS PLM Solutions, FTC, MSC, MSC Corporation, MSC's, Nastran's CAE, NX Nastran, NX Unigraphics' CAD, Research Corp, SIEMENS, Siemens Digital Industry Software, The, This, UGS, Unigraphics, Universal Analytics Inc
related to MSC Nastran · 17
Nastran → Although, California Institute, Caltech, Dr, LS-Dyna, Mac, McCormick, MSC, MSC Marc, MSC Nastran, NVH, Professor Caleb, Richard MacNeal, Robert Schwendler, Since, Technology, Today
related to history · 16
Nastran → Computer Sciences Corporation, CSC, General Purpose Structural Analysis, Gerald Sandler, GPSA, In, Joe Mule, MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation, MSC, MSC/NASTRAN, NASA, NASA STRuctural ANalysis, NASA's, The, The NASTRAN, They
related to NASTRAN options · 9
Nastran → MSC NastranNASTRAN-xMG, MSC Software, NEi Nastran, NX Nastran, Open Channel Foundation, PC/Linux-based, Siemens Digital Industry Software, Simcenter Nastran, The
related to NASTRAN-xMG · 8
Nastran → Built, DMAP, Dr, MacNeal, NASA, NASTRAN-xMG, Richard, The
related to OCF Nastran · 8
Nastran → Both, GitHub, It, June, NASA COSMIC Collection, National Technology Transfer Center, Open Channel Foundation, This
related to Associated software · 7
Nastran → All, CAD, However, In, It, The, These
related to NEi Nastran · 7
Nastran → Autodesk, It, Linux, May, NEi Nastran, This, Windows
related to Off-shoots · 6
Nastran → ASTROS, Currently ASTROS, Inc, One, The, Zona Technology
related to Competition · 5
Nastran → CAE, Currently, FEA, List, Many

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software analysis msc nasa program finite structural available code element corporation siemens nx ugs technology industry one source simcenter cae

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NastranDevelopersMSC Software, NEi Software, Siemens Digital Industries Software1.00infobox
NastranLicenseProprietary EULA1.00infobox
NastranOperating systemCross-platform1.00infobox
NastranRepositorygithub.com/nasa/NASTRAN-951.00infobox
NastranStable release2014; 12 years ago (2014)1.00infobox
NastranTypeFinite Element Analysis Simulator1.00infobox
NastranWritten inFortran1.00infobox
Nastranis afinite element analysis0.90text
Nastranis aoriginal commercial Nastran product started by Dr0.90text
Nastranis ageneral purpose finite element analysis solver used to analyze linear and nonlinear stress0.90text
the Space Shuttleinstance ofNASTRAN software application was written to help design more efficient space vehicles0.80text
Nastranrelated to Associated softwareIt0.60section

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