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MSC Nastran
MSC Nastran
Multidisciplinary structural analysis
The original and best FEA solver
With over 50 years of validation as the most industry-trusted finite element solver, MSC Nastran is continuously evolving to meet today’s structural analysis challenges.
MSC Nastran is a multidisciplinary structural analysis solver that performs static, dynamic, and thermal analysis across the linear and nonlinear domains, complemented with automated structural optimisation and award-winning embedded fatigue analysis. Hexagon’s investments in high-performance computing enhancements improve productivity and get you fast, accurate results.
Use MSC Nastran to ensure structural systems have the necessary strength, stiffness, and life to predict and prevent failures (excess stresses, resonance, buckling, or detrimental deformations) to engineer more functional, safer, and more durable products. MSC Nastran’s unique multidisciplinary approach to structural analysis allows you to:
- Simulate and test designs virtually to reduce costly physical prototypes
- Reduce reliance on physical testing in extreme or hazardous environments
- Remedy structural issues that may occur during a product’s service, reducing downtime and costs
- Optimise the performance of existing designs or develop unique product differentiators to gain a competitive advantage
- Certify designs in the aerospace, automotive, and shipbuilding industries
- Take advantage of Hexagon’s interoperability to co-simulate across multiple disciplines
Multidisciplinary structural analysis
Perform comprehensive, multidisciplinary analysis. MSC Nastran offers multiple analysis disciplines in one structural analysis solution to solve a wide variety of engineering problems.
- Linear or nonlinear analysis
- Static analysis
- Dynamic (NVH & Acoustics included) analysis
- Thermal analysis
- Buckling analysis
Structural assembly modelling
One structural component is rarely analyzed independently. Structural systems include numerous components and must be analyzed as a whole. Join multiple components for system-level structural analysis with MSC Nastran.
- Expedite meshing with Permanent Glue to connect incongruent meshes that would traditionally require time-consuming mesh transitions
- Save time constructing assemblies that consist of welds or fasteners with specialized connector elements
- Use modules to combine and manage multiple components of a structure and form a complete assembly without the need to use additional connection elements or worry about ID numbering schemes
- Speed up the re-analysis of large assemblies by constructing Superelements, or collaboratively sharing Superelements while concealing confidential design information
- Perform contact analysis and determine contact stresses and contact regions in multi-component designs
- Increase productivity by using automatic contact generation to create contact bodies and define contact relationships
Automated structural optimisation
Design optimisation is critical to product development, but is often an iterative process that requires extensive manual effort. MSC Nastran includes optimization algorithms that automatically seek optimal configurations for your designs.
- Optimise designs for stress, mass, fatigue, etc. and get almost instantaneous results as you iterate on design variables such as material properties, geometric dimensions, loads, etc.
- Enhance the shape or profile of structural members with shape optimisation
- Find optimal composite laminate ply thicknesses with topometry optimisation
- Determine optimal bead or stamp patterns for sheet metal parts with topography optimisation
Discover the transformative power of topology optimisation - used in the early stages of the development cycle, it determines an optimal material distribution for the component geometries, taking into account the installation space, loads and boundary conditions.
