Corporation is the leading global provider of integrated enterprise simulation solutions that enable radical improvement in the time and costs associated with designing and testing manufactured products. Delivered over the fully integrated and extendable SimEnterprise platform, the company's integrated virtual product development tools use detailed digital product models to simulate and verify every aspect of product performance. This empowers manufacturers to make and track critical design decisions and communicate and coordinate product development with all points of the enterprise, driving product innovation and quality to new and competitively sustainable levels.

Industry Standard Engineering Analysis Solutions

MSC.Software's engineering analysis technologies serve as the rock-solid foundation for the most reliable enterprise simulation results. MSC's best-in-class, industry-standard analysis technology, including Nastran, Adams, Marc, Dytran, Easy5, and Patran, power the advanced simulation capabilities of SimEnterprise Solutions.

 

Covering the full spectrum of engineering analysis from structural linear, nonlinear, and explicit nonlinear to computational fluid dynamics, fluid structure interaction, and more, MSC.Software's engineering analysis tools help you analyze virtually any product design, from the simplest components to complex assemblies. These technologies have become the standard for mechanical, structural, and mutli-body dynamics simulation in several industries, and manufacturers depend on these tools for highly reliable virtual test results. As an integral part of your simulation environment, these analysis tools can be used standalone, or as part of a broader MD simulation solution. Whether there is an expert analyst or a designer using an MSC workspace environment, commonality of the underlying solver foundation ensures repeatable results and maximum reliability and performance.

 

 

MSC Nastran:

MSC Nastran is a powerful general purpose finite element analysis solution for small to complex assemblies. A proven and standard tool in the field of structural analysis for over four decades, Nastran provides a wide range of modeling and analysis capabilities, including linear statics, displacement, strain, stress, vibration, heat transfer and more. What's more, Nastran can handle any material type from plastic and metal to composites and hyperelastic materials.

Add new modules as you grow

Since MSC Nastran is actually a family of tightly integrated analysis modules, you can purchase exactly what you need. You can start with a basic configuration that allows you to perform linear and buckling analysis. Later, you can add additional MSC Nastran modules for aeroelasticity, design optimization or nonlinear analysis based on your needs.

Work within a completely integrated environment

MSC Nastran is closely linked with the pre-processor and post-processor Patran. A wide range of third-party CAD programs and CAE modelers also offer direct interfaces to MSC Nastran, giving you a completely integrated modeling and simulation environment to work within.

 

MSC Adams:

When designing a mechanical system such as an automotive suspension or an aircraft landing gear, you need to understand how various components (pneumatics, hydraulics, electronics, and so on) interact as well as what forces (noise, vibration, and harshness) those components generate during operation. Adams is a motion simulation solution for analyzing the complex behavior of mechanical assemblies. Adams allows you test virtual prototypes and optimize designs for performance, safety, and comfort, without having to build and test numerous physical prototypes.
Adams is a family of interactive motion simulation software modules. A core package (Adams/View, Adams/Solver, and Adams/PostProcessor) allows you to import geometry from most major CAD systems or to build a solid model of the mechanical system from scratch. A full library of joints and constraints is available for creating articulated mechanisms. Once the virtual prototype is complete, Adams checks the model and then runs simultaneous equations for kinematic, static, quasi-static, and dynamic simulations. Results are viewable as graph, data plots, reports, or colorful animations that you can easily share with others. You can use the results (loads created from different types of motion) of Adams simulation studies to provide loads for many different FEA programs including Nastran to optimize the structure of a design.
Several modules that are part of Adams can be used to accomplish specialized tasks and achieve better fidelity of results. For example, Adams/Flex can be used to examine the impact of flexible parts on the mechanism and Adams/Controls can be used to model control systems such as hydraulics, pneumatics, electronics and more. Adams also offers a range of modules tailored to industry specific applications. Several CAD interface modules allow you to explore the motion of CAD designs without having to leave a familiar CAD interface or transfer data into Adams.

 

MSC Patran:

Patran is the leading pre- and post processor for CAE simulation. The program’s advanced modeling and surfacing tools allow you to create a finite element model from scratch. You can also take advantage of Patran's advanced CAD access tools to work directly on your existing CAD model. With direct access, Patran imports model geometry without modifications. No translation takes place, so your CAD geometry remains intact. After geometry is imported, you can use Patran to define loads, boundary conditions, and material properties.

Using Patran with MSC and third-party solvers

Once your finite-element model is complete, you can submit it for structural analysis. Patran offers complete integration with MSC Software analysis solvers, including Nastran and Dytran. What’s more, an open architecture allows you to completely integrate Patran to work with in-house or third-party analysis programs.

Displaying graphical results

As a post-processor, Patran quickly and clearly displays analysis results in structural, thermal, fatigue, fluid, magnetic terms, or in relation to any other application where the resulting values are associated with their respective finite elements or nodes.
Patran is the de-facto standard for linking design, analysis, and results evaluation in a single, seamless environment.

 

MSC Marc:

Finite element analysis (FEA) is a critical part of the virtual design process. But because most FEA programs are linear, they can only study parts that deform a small amount, certainly not enough to deformation to exceed the linear elastic range of the materials.
But Marc has no such limitations. A nonlinear FEA program, Marc enables you to assess the structural integrity and performance of parts undergoing large permanent deformations as a result of thermal or structural load. The types of deformations the program can study include geometric nonlinearities (metals bending) and material nonlinearities (elastomers and metals that yield under structural or thermal loading). You can also use Marc to simulate deformable, part-to-part or part-to-self contact under varying conditions that include the effects of friction—critical for analyzing nonlinear behavior in tool-and-die set-up, spring coil clash, or a windshield wiper system.
And whether you are designing with glass, rubber, steel, or concrete, Marc offers an extensive library of metallic and non-metallic material models, along with a library of 175 elements for structural, thermal, and fluid analysis.

Combine with pre- and post-processors

You can drive all Marc products through the common GUI offered by Patran or Marc Mentat, two pre- and post processors that work with Marc. Mentat also provides the unique ability to process large problems in parallel using the domain decomposition technique. Loading conditions can originate from physical tests or virtual tests using Adams. MSC Software AFEA is a bundled version of Patran and Marc.

 

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