Help:MSC Nastran and Patran

MSC.Nastran is software that allows you to assess many functional aspects of your products, 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.Patran is a general purpose CAE simulation solution for interactive, 3D modeling and visualization of engineering analysis results.

Vendor homepage

http://www.mscsoftware.com/

Software homepage

• MD Nastran
• MD Patran

Software availability

Unix and Windows

Contact Dr. Jihua Gou for permission to use this software.

A student version is available at http://www.mscsoftware.com/student-editions

command to type to run

patran

graphical user interface for pre/post processing

nastran

non-interactive solver that can be run in batch mode.

View online documentation

Some documentation is in the Patran help menu.

Examples and tutorials

http://www.mscsoftware.com/products/example_problems.cfm

http://www.mscsoftware.com/university

• Supporting materials (including Movie Gallery)
• Examples
• Dedicated discussion forums for all MSC products licensed to universities