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NASTRAN(ID:726/nas001)
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Country: United States
Designed 1970
Sammet category: Non-numerical Scientific
For NAsa STRess ANalysis program.
Large stress analysis problems. Engineering language, listed [?] 1976.
Structures:
References:
Final Report for NASTRAN Project. (1970) Final Report for NASTRAN Project. March 1970. Goddard Space Flight Center, Computer Sciences Corporation.
NASTRAN Demonstration Problem Manual. (1970) NASTRAN Demonstration Problem Manual. Scientific and Technical Information Division, Office of Technology Utilization, National Aeronautics and Space Administration September 1970.
The NASTRAN Programmer's Manual: Part I. (1970) The NASTRAN Programmer's Manual: Part I. Scientific and Technical Information Division, Office of Technology Utilization, National Aeronautics and Space Administration September 1970.
The NASTRAN Programmer's Manual: Part II. (1970) The NASTRAN Programmer's Manual: Part II. Scientific and Technical Information Division, Office of Technology Utilization, National Aeronautics and Space Administration September 1970
(1970) The NASTRAN Programmer's Manual: Part III Scientific and Technical Information Division, Office of Technology Utilization, National Aeronautics and Space Administration September 1970.
(1970) The NASTRAN Theoretical Manual Scientific and Technical Information Division, Office of Technology Utilization, National Aeronautics and Space Administration September 1970
The NASTRAN User's Manual: Part I. (1970) The NASTRAN User's Manual: Part I. Scientific and Technical Information Division, Office of Technology Utilization, National Aeronautics and Space Administration September 1970
The NASTRAN User's Manual: Part II. (1970) The NASTRAN User's Manual: Part II. Scientific and Technical Information Division, Office of Technology Utilization, National Aeronautics and Space Administration September 1970
Tocher, James L. and Herness, Ervin D. (1971) Tocher, James L. and Herness, Ervin D. "A Critical View of NASTRAN"
in Fenves, SJ, (1973) Fenves, SJ, "Numerical and Computer Methods in Structural Mechanics", Academic Press, New York, 1973
National Aeronautics And Space Administration NAS (1973) National Aeronautics And Space Administration NASTRAN: Users' Experiences Washington, DC, U.S. A National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1973 (NASA TM X-2893)
in Fenves, SJ, (1973) Fenves, SJ, "Numerical and Computer Methods in Structural Mechanics", Academic Press, New York, 1973
(1974) "The NASTRAN User's Manual", SP-222(C3), NASA.
in Fenves, SJ, (1973) Fenves, SJ, "Numerical and Computer Methods in Structural Mechanics", Academic Press, New York, 1973
Holmes, Harvard H. (1975) Holmes, Harvard H. "Graphics Modeling Techniques in Computer Aided Design" Berkeley, UC California 1975
Extract:
NASTRAN, SPICE and TRANSPORT
in Fenves, SJ, (1973) Fenves, SJ, "Numerical and Computer Methods in Structural Mechanics", Academic Press, New York, 1973
Sammet, Jean E (1978) Sammet, Jean E "Roster of programming languages for 1976-77" pp56-85
in [SIGPLAN] (1978) SIGPLAN Notices 13(11) Nov 1978
Resources
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NASTRAN page at Open Channel
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NASTRAN page at Open Channel NASTRAN, the NASA Structural Analysis System, is a powerful general purpose finite element analysis (FEA) program for use in computer-aided engineering. NASTRAN is a standard in the structural analysis field, providing the engineer with a wide range of modeling and analysis capabilities. Development of NASTRAN was initiated in the mid-1960's by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to provide an FEA capability for its aerospace research projects. Over the years, NASA has actively maintained and improved NASTRAN such that it remains a state-of-the-art structural analysis system.
NASTRAN applications include almost every kind of structure and construction.
Structural and modeling elements are provided for the specific representation of
the more common types of structural building blocks including rods, beams, shear
panels, plates, and shells of revolution. More general types of building blocks
can be treated by combining these simple elements or by using the "general"
element capability. The substructuring capability allows different sections of a
structure to be modeled jointly after having already been modeled
separately.
NASTRAN permits the effects of control systems, aerodynamic
transfer functions, and other nonstructural features to be incorporated into the
solution of the structural problem. Among other analysis capabilities, NASTRAN
can handle:
- static response to concentrated and distributed loads, thermal
expansion, and enforced deformations,
- dynamic response to transient and steady-state sinusoidal loads, and
random excitation,
- complex eigenvalue determination for vibration analysis, dynamic
stability analysis,
- and elastic stability analysis.
NASTRAN also has a
limited capability for the solution of nonlinear problems, including piecewise
linear analysis of nonlinear static response and transient analysis of nonlinear
dynamic response. Users may develop their own analysis capabilities by using the
Direct Matrix Abstraction Programming (DMAP) language to direct NASTRAN in the
solution of general matrix problems.
Two types of NASTRAN licenses are
available for some destination platforms. Source Code licenses, which are
available for all supported platforms, include the source code, executables,
demonstration problems and a four-volume set of documentation which includes the
Programmer's Manual. Executable Code Only licenses are also available. See the
abstract for NASTRAN/XE. The individual volumes of the four-volume set of
documentation for NASTRAN are also available separately.
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About NASTRAN In the early 1960s, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) determined that a large scale finite element-based program was needed for designing the space system for lunar exploration.
To satisfy this need, a NASA team, headed by a visionary named Tom Butler, developed a set of specifications for an innovative analysis system. The new system was called NASA Structural Analysis System, or NASTRAN.
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NASTRAN - background Analysis tools that supported World War II aerospace technology were not adequate to meet the design challenge of high-performance aircraft with swept wings. This lead to a revolution in predictive analysis begun at Boeing by Turner, Clough and their colleagues. Ray Clough coined the term "finite elements" to describe the new analysis technology.
Finite elements and the parallel development of digital computers, provided designers with new insight on how loads are carried in a swept wing and lead to the detailed design of weight-efficient structures for transonic, and eventually, supersonic flight. The general purpose nature of finite elements was quickly recognized as the new type of analysis spread across the remaining manufacturing industries and into architecture and engineering of large buildings, power engineering and civil engineering projects.
Today, finite element analysis is the main technology supporting a CAE application software industry that was estimated by IDC to reach $690.4 million in revenues during 2000.
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NASTRAN - commercialisation the uses for NASTRAN expanded, NASA believed that the finite element technology incorporated in the program was an important national resource that should be widely disseminated. In a forward-looking move, the agency decided that the best way to accomplish this goal was to make the source code available to software companies that would further develop the code as commercial products.
MSC developed its own commercial version, MSC.NASTRAN, which was first released in the early 1970's. Competitive commercial finite element packages from other university and industry sources also broke into the developing market in the 1970's, but NASTRAN remained the leading commercial software code stream. Other commercial versions of NASTRAN were developed by Universal Analytics and CSAR. MSC subsequently acquired these companies, however, so that MSC.NASTRAN is the only extant commercial version of the NASTRAN program.
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