MD Nastran Desktop

MD Nastran DesktopMultidiscipline Simulation for the Desktop

MD Nastran Desktop makes MD Nastran, the leading structural FEA solution, accessible to worldwide innovative industries and engineers with diverse high-end simulation technology needs and increasing cost pressure challenges.

Designed specifically for suppliers and medium-sized manufacturers, MD Nastran Desktop provides flexible, low-cost access to MD Nastran's extensive, powerful, and latest solution capabilities through a scalable, common, and integrated easy to use system.

Any industry or company, independent of its size, can now benefit from the improved scalable & modular access to the most powerful Nastran solution in the world through tailored solutions.

Engineers can start with the MD Nastran capabilities that fit their current FEA needs and easily move up to more advanced functionality while remaining in the same user environment, leading to accelerated productivity and shorter learning curve.

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MD Nastran Desktop - Structures

MD Nastran Desktop - Structures

MD Nastran Desktop Structures is the base desktop solution tailored to stress engineers working on components, assemblies, and structures subjected to static and dynamic loads. Engineers can analyze any structural component with ease, determine if the structure is going to buckle or yield, and ensure the design performs within tolerance limits.

Through the use of robust joints and connectors, interaction and load transfer between components of an assembly is made easy. The linear contact capability of MD Nastran not only expands the possibilities of simulation studies that can be performed, the intuitive and easy set up saves users significant set up time and improves productivity.

This package includes:

  • Linear Statics
  • Dynamics
  • Modal
  • Buckling
  • Connectors
  • Linear Contact
  • Pre/post processing (SimXpert or Patran)
  • Template automation (SimXpert)

MD Nastran Desktop - Structures & Motion

MD Nastran Desktop - Structures & Motion

MD Nastran Desktop Structures & Motion helps structures and motion engineers study the true functional performance of systems using the multibody dynamics (MBD) and kinematics capabilities engine of MD Adams, the most widely used MBD solution in the world together with the power of MD Nastran. Engineers can use this solution to get accurate loads for subsequent FE analyses, and perform flexible body integration (coupling of motion/structures) to make more accurate design decisions earlier in the development cycle and reduce physical test costs.

This package includes:

  • Linear Statics
  • Dynamics
  • Modal
  • Buckling
  • Connectors
  • Linear Contact
  • Multibody Dynamics
  • Motion-Structures Flex Body Integration
  • Pre/post processing (SimXpert)
  • Template automation (SimXpert)

MD Nastran Desktop - Advanced Dynamics

MD Nastran Desktop - Advanced Dynamics

MD Nastran Desktop Advanced Dynamics helps structural dynamics and acoustics engineers virtually simulate designs that are subjected to advanced dynamic loading conditions. With this solution, engineers can analyze both static and dynamic loads, study interior acoustic behaviors such as noise and vibration and receive a productivity boost with MD Nastran's superelement assembly features that deliver immediate efficiencies when modeling and analyzing large assemblies.

This package includes:

  • Linear Statics
  • Modal
  • Buckling
  • Connectors
  • Dynamics
  • Acoustics
  • Random Vibration
  • Superelements
  • Pre/post processing (SimXpert or Patran)
  • Template automation (SimXpert)

MD Nastran Desktop - Advanced Structures

MD Nastran Desktop - Advanced Structures

MD Nastran Desktop Advanced Structures is tailored to structural engineers simulating nonlinear and multiphysics problems including nonlinear materials, contact, large strain and displacement behaviors, and thermo-mechanical coupling.

With capabilities to simulate complex nonlinear materials along with large strain and displacement behaviors, the Advanced Structures Package provides engineers with a complete nonlinear solution. The same easy to use contact analysis capability available in Structures Package is also available here with ability to address large displacements and rotations.

This package includes:

  • Linear Statics
  • Dynamics
  • Modal
  • Buckling
  • Connectors
  • Linear Contact
  • Advanced Nonlinear
  • Thermal
  • Thermal-mechanical coupling
  • Pre/post processing (SimXpert or Patran)
  • Template automation (SimXpert)

MD Nastran Desktop - Advanced Explicit

MD Nastran Desktop - Advanced Explicit

MD Nastran Desktop Advanced Explicit helps structural engineers study explicit nonlinear problems including drop testing, impact, and crash simulations.

MD Nastran's Desktop's Explicit Nonlinear Package integrates the technology from LS-Dyna into MD Nastran to provide you with a complete explicit solution ideal for fast, transient events like impact, crash, or drop. During these events, the product being tested experiences extensive nonlinearities and undergoes severe deformation. In order to solve these complex problems, MD Nastran supports a multitude of nonlinear materials along with failure capabilities and capability to study interaction between different bodies including self-contact. High performance parallelization is available to help you achieve increased productivity when analyzing large models.

This package includes:

  • Linear Statics
  • Dynamics
  • Modal
  • Buckling
  • Connectors
  • Linear Contact
  • Explicit Nonlinear
  • Drop Test
  • Pre/post processing (SimXpert or Patran)
  • Template automation (SimXpert)

MD Nastran Desktop - Advanced Structures & Motion

MD Nastran Desktop - Advanced Structures & Motion

MD Nastran Desktop Advanced Structures & Motion helps structural and systems engineers study the true functional performance of systems using the multibody dynamics (MBD) and kinematics capabilities engine of MD Adams, the most widely used MBD solution in the world together with the advanced structural and nonlinear capabilities of MD Nastran. Engineers can use this solution to get accurate loads for subsequent FE analyses, and perform flex body integration (coupling of motion/structures) to make more accurate design decisions earlier in the development cycle and reduce physical test costs.

This package includes:

  • Linear Statics
  • Dynamics
  • Modal
  • Buckling
  • Connectors
  • Linear Contact
  • Advanced Nonlinear
  • Thermal
  • Thermal-mechanical coupling
  • Multibody Dynamics
  • Motion-structures Flex Body Integration
  • Pre/post processing (SimXpert)
  • Template automation (SimXpert)

Related Applications: Structural, Thermal, Nonlinear, Motion, Explicit, Multidiscipline, Multiphysics, Noise & Vibration

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