Composites are getting more attention as design firms work to remove weight from products. MSC Software Corporation, a developer of multidiscipline simulation software that accelerates product innovation, says that ixent GmbH is using MSC Nastran for the layout and simulation of composite structures. Lightweight design is a primary objective for engineers at ixent GmbH. Aerospace…
Nonlinear FEA reduces time to solutions and more
A recent version of FEA software is said to give engineers a single solver to perform multidisciplinary analyses including linear statics, dynamics, and implicit and explicit nonlinear features to simulate applications that span everyday common to complex. High performance computing productivity and nonlinear improvements in MSC Nastran are the focus of its latest release. Improve…