NEiNastran for Windows

Features

Overview
Following is a complete list of NEiNastran’s
features and capabilities.

Features:
User Interface:
• Native Windows look and feel.
• Multiple graphics windows.
• Full, multi-level undo/redo.
• On-line help with hypertext links.
• Toolbars to access frequently used
commands.
• Cut and paste images into Windows
applications.
• Dynamic highlight during selection
operations.
• Import or export DXF and IGES points
• Box, circle, polygon, front, depth and and curves, Stereolithography (SLA)
query picking of geometric and FEA data, ACIS (.sat) and Parasolid (.x_t)
entities. parts or assemblies
• Select entities by associativity (all • CATIA import model files and Express
elements connected to specified nodes, files from CATEXP (CATIA v4.1.x or
all elements of a specified property). v4.2), VDA import (up to v2.0), IDEAS
• Extensive material properties library with import (MS8), Pro/E import (v16 to v20),
over 6000 different materials and alloys. Solid Edge import, Unigraphics NX
import (v11 through NX v1)
Modeling Capabilities: • Import model files from all popular
• Basic geometry creation commercial FEA codes
• Point, line, circle, spline, surface, • Line, plate, and solid element types
volume • Mass and general stiffness matrices
• Boolean and extrude/revolve solid • Contact lines and surfaces, and slide
modeling lines
• Mid-surface extraction • Generate plates from lines and solids
• Project curves onto surfaces from plates
• Intersect surfaces to create curves • Quad-dominant automatic surface
• Define regions by projecting curves onto meshing, including multiple internal
solids boundaries such as holes
• Create curves based on U-V space on • Automatic and mapped meshing,
surfaces including biasing
• Shell solids with constant thickness • Tetrahedral and hexahedral mesher
• Rule, revolve, extrude and loft surfaces • Mesh refinement and smoothing
• Stitch surfaces into solids • Geometry or finite element based loads
• Break, trim, extend, join and fillet, offset and boundary conditions
and copy geometric entities • Unlimited number of grid points
• Parametric design language to define
model in terms of variables and
equations

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NASTRAN is a registered trademark of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Windows is a registered
trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their
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Groups and Layers: Element Library:
• Easily subdivide your model for • Tapered beam
visualization or post-processing • Rod and bar
purposes, group by; Coordinate • Tube
Clipping. • Pipe
• Automatically add new entities to active • Quadrilateral and triangular plates
or user-specified group. (6DOF/Node), membranes, shells,
• Group by ID, Associativity, Material, shear panels
Property, and Type. • Solids (four, five, and six-sided up to 20
• Automatic group creation based on nodes)
properties, materials, and geometric • Plane stress, plane strain
constraints. • Spring, mass, and damper
• Coupled spring and damper
Results Processing: • Cable element
• Deformations, animations, and vector • Initial slack or tension
displays • Failure (snap)
• Single and multi-load set animations. • Contact elements
• Filled color contours and criteria • Gap element with friction
displays.
• Slide line element with friction
• Isosurface and cutting planes, with
• Surface-to-surface contact with
dynamic control.
friction
• Shear and bending moment diagrams.
• Weld option for contact surfaces
• Error estimates.
• Spot weld (CWELD)
• Results across composite laminates.
• Rigid general form, rigid rod, rigid bar,
• Extensive result sorting capabilities. and rigid plate
• XY-Plots with multiple curves. • Interpolation
• Text reports: standard and user- • Conduction
customized.
• Capacitance
• Interactive data query with mouse.
• Boundary surface
• Freebody displays, including Grid Point
Force Balance support for grouped Solution Capabilities:
entities.
• Linear Static Analysis
• Import/export in comma separated
• Inertial Relief
tables.
• Thermal Stress and Deflection Analysis
• Internet publishing with VRML support.
• Nonlinear Static Analysis
• Save animations with AVI support.
• Geometric nonlinear
ƒ Large displacement/rotation
Graphics:
(updated Lagrangian)
• Dual Windows GDI (Vector-Based) and
ƒ Follower forces
OpenGL graphics.
ƒ Snap-through analysis
• 3D dynamic pan, zoom and rotation. ƒ Displacement control
• Hidden line and wireframe display. • Material nonlinear
• Free edge and free face display. ƒ Elastic
• Light source shading and transparency. ƒ Elastic-plastic
• Complete beam and plate displays, ƒ Perfectly plastic
including orientation, axes, offsets, etc. ƒ Nonlinear elastic
ƒ Thermo-elastic
Customization: ƒ Creep
• Record, edit and playback macros. • Tension-only cables and shell
• BASIC Scripting Language. elements with multiple loading
• Neutral file: fully documented binary and conditions
ASCII file formats. • Gap, slide line, and surface-to-
surface contact with friction

2003 NE, Noran Engineering, Inc. NE, NE/, and NEi logo are Registered Trademarks of Noran Engineering, Inc.
NASTRAN is a registered trademark of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Windows is a registered
trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
• Temperature dependent materials in all • Modal analysis
solutions • Transient and frequency response
• Linear and Nonlinear Buckling Analysis analysis
• Natural Frequencies and Mode Shapes • Random vibration
• Constrained, unconstrained, and • Response/shock spectrum
rigid body generation
• Modal participation factors • Modal summation
• Modal reaction forces • Linear and Nonlinear Steady State Heat
• Effective mass and percent effective Transfer
mass • Linear and Nonlinear Transient Heat
• Extremely fast blocked Lanzcos and Transfer
subspace methods • Composite laminate materials supported
• Linear and Nonlinear Direct Transient in all solutions
Response Analysis with adaptive time • Mass Properties Analysis
stepping • Direct matrix import and export (DMIG)
• Direct Frequency Response for all solutions
• Modal Transient and Frequency • Static condensation and Guyan
Response Reduction
• Modal Response and Shock Spectrum
Generation Element Features:
• Dynamic Design Analysis Method, • Material properties include: temperature
DDAM and stress dependent isotropic,
• Modal Summation (NRL, SRSS, ABS, orthotropic, anisotropic, and laminated
and CQC methods) composite material models
• Random Vibration • Robust shell and solid elements give
• Correlated and uncorrelated input accurate results even with high skew
• Power spectral density angles, large aspect ratios, and when
• RMS used in a coarse mesh
• Autocorrelation input • Both element and grid point stresses
• Force, reaction, displacement, can be output in any coordinate system
velocity, and acceleration output with one simple command
• Response Spectra Generation • Automatic mid-side edge node option for
• Complex Eigenvalue Analysis solid elements
• Enforced Motion • Automatic vertex drill degree of freedom
for shell elements
• Damping supported in all dynamic
solutions • Automatic correction for improperly
defined rigid and interpolation elements
• Modal damping
ƒ Equivalent viscous • Automatic correction of improperly
ƒ Fraction of critical defined parabolic solid elements
ƒ Quality factor • Extensive checkout procedures
• Structural damping
Solution Features:
• Material damping
• Model size limited by available disk
• Fraction of stiffness
space only
• Discrete viscous damping elements:
• Extremely fast sparse direct and
CVISC, CDAMP
iterative (PCGLSS) equation solvers
• Raleigh and proportional damping
reduces solution times from hours to
• Nonlinear and frequency dependent seconds
damping
• Automatic mass and stiffness singularity
• Option to force modal damping to be detection and correction
treated as structural damping
• Decomposition mechanism detection
• Linear and Nonlinear Prestress and correction
• Dynamic solutions • Solution error measure for static
• Static analysis solutions, orthogonality loss and error
• Buckling analysis norms for eigenvalue solutions

2003 NE, Noran Engineering, Inc. NE, NE/, and NEi logo are Registered Trademarks of Noran Engineering, Inc.
NASTRAN is a registered trademark of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Windows is a registered
trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
Material Properties: • Solution and mesh error estimates
• Isotropic • Element and grid point results
• Orthotropic • Nonlinear results include
• Anisotropic • Equivalent stress
• Temperature-dependent • Effective plastic, nonlinear elastic,
• Stress-dependent and creep strain
• Creep • Gap, slide line, and contact surface
displacement
Performance and Control Features: • Contact forces and stresses
• Uses the most current advances in finite • Automatic and user definable measure
element technology sorting for handling multiple load case
• Written in fast, optimized 32-bit Visual results
Fortran 95 and C/C++ • Powerful grid and element set generator
• Complete program control is provided for generating sets that can be used to
allowing user definable program control output, define measure
execution sequence coordinate systems, generate grid point
• Multiple model initialization files can be temperatures, and define measure sort
created, each customized for a commands
particular job • Shell and solid element corner stress
• Extensive error checking at all stages of and strain output
execution • Grid point weight generator with
• Program execution can be tailored to complete mass properties
system resources for optimum • Stress discontinuity/convergence error
performance calculation
• Element and grid point stress, strain,
Output Features: heat flux, and thermal gradients can be
• Direct support for FEMAP results import output in any coordinate system
using either ASCII or Binary FEMAP including: material, grid point, basic, and
neutral file interface global
• Results import support for other FEA • Intermediate bar and beam element
and CAD applications using the output
NASTRAN Output 2 or PATRAN 2.5 • Composite failure index and strength
neutral file interface ratio output
• A detailed tabular model data/results file • Composite sandwich material stability
eliminates the cryptic nature of standard index
NASTRAN output files by explaining all • Automatic generation of structural
entities in the model database temperatures for direct modeler import
• Results measures include or structural analysis
• Energy • Element and grid point thermal
• Stresses gradients and heat flux
• Strains • Heat flow into heat boundary elements
• Forces • All directional results measures can be
• Reactions output in a user definable coordinate
• Displacements system either before or after an analysis
• Velocities is run
• Accelerations
• Heat fluxes Loads and Boundary Conditions:
• Thermal gradients • Nodal forces and moments
• Temperatures • Pressure loads
• Enthalpies • Gravity and centrifugal
• Grid point force balance • Rotational acceleration and velocity
• Global stiffness matrix • Single and multipoint constraints
• Global conductivity matrixes • Symmetric, antisymmetric, axisymmetric
• Mass and damping matrixes boundary conditions

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trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their
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• Multiple loading and boundary condition
subcases
• Thermal loading and stress recovery
• Temperature dependent conductivity
• Isotropic and anisotropic thermal
conductivity
• Temperature dependant internal heat
generation
• Temperature dependent heat transfer
coefficient
• Temperature gradient dependent heat
transfer coefficient
• Radiation and convection loads
• Nonlinear functional forms
• Surface normal heat flux
• Grid point nodal power Accurate and proven answers with
• 2D or 3D interpolation of input, NEiNastran:
temperature, displacements, forces, • Over 15 years of use by industry
moments and pressure loads
• Comprehensive verification program
• Specified constant temperatures for and documentation set
steady state analysis
• Over 3000 test problems verified for
• Specified time-dependent temperatures each release
for transient analysis
• Extensive built-in diagnostics verify
• Initial starting temperatures for nonlinear accuracy of each analysis
steady state analysis
• Initial starting temperatures for all Unparalleled support:
transient analyses • Leader in outstanding customer support
• Inertial relief loading • Onsite and offsite training courses
taught by experienced professional
Editor: engineers
• Fully integrated and customizable • Phone and email support staffed by a
Nastran Editor controls program team of FEA specialists
operation and provides results summary
• Optional consulting services available
data through an easy to use GUI
• Features tabled windows to give
immediate access to all input and output
files
• Field markers make manual editing
simple and increase productivity
dramatically
• Complete online documentation and
context sensitive help
• Permits batch queuing of jobs for
sensitivity and configuration trade
studies
• Special real time controls allow
changing solution parameters while
running
• Real time 2D xy-plotting and 3D
deformed shape and contour plotting

2003 NE, Noran Engineering, Inc. NE, NE/, and NEi logo are Registered Trademarks of Noran Engineering, Inc.
NASTRAN is a registered trademark of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Windows is a registered
trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
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training, and comprehensive technical
support ensures that you will see immediate
return on your investment.

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NEiNastran for Windows

From Noran Engineering, Inc.

2003 NE, Noran Engineering, Inc. NE, NE/, and NEi logo are Registered Trademarks of Noran Engineering, Inc.
NASTRAN is a registered trademark of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Windows is a registered
trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.