As part of your Virtual Product Development (VPD) process, you can use MSC.Nastran to assess many functional aspects of your product's design, such as the structural response (displacement, strain, stress, vibration, temperature) due to its material properties and the loads and boundary conditions that are applied to it during operation.

The MSC.Nastran product family is modular, enabling you to analyze product designs ranging from simple components to complex structures and systems. This also enables you to grow your analysis capabilities as your VPD needs increase. The MSC.Nastran Basic product configuration enables you to perform linear statics, normal modes, and buckling analyses on models of unlimited size. When you want to extend and accelerate your product capabilities and designs, you can add MSC.Nastran product modules tailored to heat transfer, dynamics, spot welding, aeroelasticity, or nonlinear analyses. YOu can also automate or customize your work using the MSC.Nastran Design Optimization, Topology Optimization, or DMAP product modules.

Design simulations can be computationally intensive as your model size grows or becomes increasingly complex.

MSC.Software recommends MSC.Patran and MSC.Sofy as your pre- and postprocessor for MSC.Nastran analyses.

Benefits

• Reduce the time and cost required to get your new products to market by using simulation instead of the traditional build-and-break process.
• Easily add MSC.Nastran product modules as your analysis needs grow.
• Increase your confidence in your final product design by virtually testing it under all conceivable loading conditions.
• Minimize the time spent on manual data transfers by using a product well-integrated with MSC.Software's other best-in-class simulation tools.
• Leverage your investment in simulation technology with the MSC.MasterKey™ flexible licensing system that provides access to the complete portfolio of MSC.Software's Virtual Product Development (VPD) solutions in a single license key.

Applications

• The strength and fatigue of aircraft structures, such as fuselage, wings and flaps, and landing gear.
• The strength, durability, and vibration of car, truck, and train structures such as body, chassis, suspension, steering, and wheels.
• The affects of temperature fluctuations in consumer electronics devices, from convection, conduction, and radiation.
• The ability of any product to withstand being improperly handled, dropped, crashed, or other types of catastrophic events.

MSC.Nastran™ products

MSC.Nastran™ ACMS
Increased FEA solution efficiency through automated component mode synthesis (ACMS).
 
MSC.Nastran™ Acoustics
Create quieter vehicles by easily simulating structures coupled with acoustic cavities.
 
MSC.Nastran™ ADAMS Integration
Easily create detailed finite element models for your mechanical systems simulations using MSC.Nastran ADAMS Integration.
 
MSC.Nastran™ Aeroelasticity
Simulation and analysis of structures in the presence of an subsonic or supersonic airstream.
 
MSC.Nastran™ Design Optimization
Design optimization capabilities for improved product manufacturability and performance.
 
MSC.Nastran™ Distributed Memory Parallel
Increased solution efficiency through parallel processing with computer systems with multiple CPUs or multiple computers on a network.
 
MSC.Nastran™ DMAP
Programming capability to customize and extend the power of MSC.Nastran.
 
MSC.Nastran™ Nonlinear
Simulating the behavior characterized by static and transient material and geometric nonlinearities