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.NASTRAN Is A Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Program That Was Originally Developed For

NASTRAN is a finite element analysis (FEA) program originally developed for NASA in the 1960s. It is primarily a solver that requires pre- and post-processing software for modeling and analyzing results. Multiple vendors offer these complementary tools to simplify building models, meshing, applying loads, and viewing output. In addition, some vendors have integrated nonlinear analysis capabilities. ABAQUS is used for simulation in automotive, aerospace, and industrial products. It provides a wide range of material models and multiphysics coupling capabilities. Initially designed for nonlinear problems, it has extensive material models like those for rubber. ADINA is a commercial FEA program used in industry and academia for structural, fluid

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.NASTRAN Is A Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Program That Was Originally Developed For

NASTRAN is a finite element analysis (FEA) program originally developed for NASA in the 1960s. It is primarily a solver that requires pre- and post-processing software for modeling and analyzing results. Multiple vendors offer these complementary tools to simplify building models, meshing, applying loads, and viewing output. In addition, some vendors have integrated nonlinear analysis capabilities. ABAQUS is used for simulation in automotive, aerospace, and industrial products. It provides a wide range of material models and multiphysics coupling capabilities. Initially designed for nonlinear problems, it has extensive material models like those for rubber. ADINA is a commercial FEA program used in industry and academia for structural, fluid

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NASTRAN is a finite element analysis (FEA) program that was originally developed for
NASA in the late 1960s under United States government funding for the Aerospace industry.[1]
NASTRAN is primarily a solver for finite element analysis. It does not have functionality that
allows for graphically building a model or meshing. All input and output to the program is in the
form of text files. However, multiple software vendors market pre- and post-processors designed
to simplify building a finite element model and analyzing the results. These software tools
include functionality to import and simplify CAD geometry, mesh with finite elements, and
apply loads and restraints. The tools allow the user to submit an analysis to NASTRAN, and
import the results and show them graphically. In addition to pre- and post-processing
capabilities, several Nastran vendors have integrated more advanced nonlinear capabilities into
their Nastran products.

2. ABAQUS is used in the automotive, aerospace, and industrial products industries. The product
is popular with academic and research institutions due to the wide material modeling capability,
and the program's ability to be customized. Abaqus also provides a good collection of
multiphysics capabilities, such as coupled acoustic-structural, piezoelectric, and structural-pore
capabilities, making it attractive for production-level simulations where multiple fields need to
be coupled.Abaqus was initially designed to address non-linear physical behavior; as a result, the
package has an extensive range of material models such as elastomeric (rubberlike) material
capabilities.

3. ADINA is a commercial finite element analysis program that is developed and distributed
worldwide by ADINA R & D, Inc.[1] The company was founded in 1986 by Dr. Klaus-Jürgen
Bathe,[2] and is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, USA.ADINA is used in industry
and academia to solve structural, fluid, heat transfer, and electromagnetic problems.[3] ADINA
can also be used to solve multiphysics problems, including fluid-structure interactions [4] and
thermo-mechanical problems.ADINA offers a wide range of capabilities based on reliable and
efficient finite element procedures. For this reason, ADINA is often selected for applications
where reliability is of critical importance, e.g., dynamic analysis of bridges for earthquake,
biomedical applications, design of nuclear reactors, studies for safety and many more!

4 ANSYS, Inc. is an engineering simulation software (computer-aided engineering, or CAE).


ANSYS offers engineering simulation solution sets in engineering simulation that a design
process requires. Companies in a wide variety of industries use ANSYS software. The tools put a
virtual product through a rigorous testing procedure (such as crashing a car into a brick wall, or
running for several years on a tarmac road) before it becomes a physical object.

he ANSYS product line provides world-renowned finite element analysis (FEA), for use in the
aerospace, automotive, building, MEMS, nuclear, and many other industries.Product offerings
include time-tested, industry-leading applications for structural, thermal, mechanical,
computational fluid dynamics, and electromagnetic analyses, as well as solutions for transient
impact analysis. ANSYS software solves for the combined effects of multiple forces, accurately
modeling combined behaviors resulting from "multiphysics" interactions.
5. SAP2000 is a structural and earthquake engineering software company founded in 1975 [1] and
based in Berkeley, California. Advanced analytical techniques allow for step-by-step large
deformation analysis, Eigen and Ritz analyses based on stiffness of nonlinear cases, catenary
cable analysis, material nonlinear analysis with fiber hinges, multi-layered nonlinear shell
element, buckling analysis, progressive collapse analysis, energy methods for drift control,
velocity-dependent dampers, base isolators, support plasticity and nonlinear segmental
construction analysis. Nonlinear analyses can be static and/or time history, with options for FNA
nonlinear time history dynamic analysis and direct integration.

6. LS-DYNA is an advanced general-purpose multiphysics simulation software package


developed by the Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC). While the package
continues to contain more and more possibilities for the calculation of many complex, real world
problems, its origins and core-competency lie in highly nonlinear transient dynamic finite
element analysis (FEA) using explicit time integration. LS-DYNA is being used by the
automobile, aerospace, construction, military, manufacturing, and bioengineering industries.\

7. IES, Inc. creates high quality structural design software for engineers and related
professionals. Your solution for general analysis, frames, trusses, shear wall systems,
foundations, retaining walls, floor systems and more in steel, wood, concrete, aluminum, cold-
formed, and masonry.

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