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.

MSC Nastran enables you to perform linear statics, normal modes, and buckling analyses on models of unlimited size. You can also look at heat transfer, dynamics, spot welding, aeroelasticity, and nonlinear analyses. You can automate or customise your work using the MSC Nastran Design optimisation, Topology optimisation, or DMAP product modules.

Design simulations can be computationally intensive as your model size grows or becomes increasingly complex. MSC Nastran's Superelements and Automated Component Mode Synthesis (ACMS) product modules provide significant solution efficiency improvements, while the Distributed Memory Parallel (DMP) product provides dramatic performance scalability through parallel processor capabilities for computer systems with multiple CPUs or multiple computers on a network.

MSC Nastran Benefits

• Reduce the time and cost required to get your new product to market by using simulation instead of the traditional build - and - break process;
• 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;
• Minimise the time spent on manual data transfers by using a product well-integrated with MSC.Software's other best-in-class simulation tools.

MSC Nastran 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 Modules

• Nastran ACMS
• Nastran Acoustics
• Nastran Exterior Acoustics
• Nastran Aeroelasticity II
• Nastran Design Optimization
• Nastran Distributed Memory Parallel (DMP)
• Nastran Krylov Solver
• Nastran Rotor Dynamics
• Nastran Superelements
• Nastran Topology Optimization
• Nastran Implicit Nonlinear Multi-Processor