| NEi Nastran
customers in the manufacturing processing industry routinely address
issues related to: |
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Structural
durability and fatigue analysis of farming, forestry, construction,
and recreational equipment |
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Design
and analysis of consumer products, washing machines, appliances |
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Dynamic
analysis of rotating machinery, such as pumps, motors, and compressors |
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Thermo-mechanical
and fatigue analysis of power generation equipment, such as boilers,
turbines, and heat exchangers |
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Design
of reliable rollover and falling object protective systems (ROPS
and FOPS) |
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Crash
analysis of rolling stock, such as locomotives and wagons |
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Static
and dynamic analysis of piping systems under various loads, such
as thermal, pressure, seismic, and loads |
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Life
predictions of various mechanisms, such as transmissions and industrial
brakes and clutches |
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Manufacturing
of thermoplastic and polymeric materials |
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| NEi Nastran
product suite key benefits for manufacturing processing: |
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Comprehensive
interactive tools necessary for model creation, analysis
monitoring, and results evaluation including a state-of-the-art
analysis editor. |
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Specialized
industry-proven element technologies including hybrid quad
and hex elements, surface and spot weld elements, heat transfer
elements, and dissimilar mesh interpolation elements. |
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High
performance processing including advanced parallel PCG
iterative, sparse direct, and block Lanczos solvers which allow
solutions to large-scale models over 10 million degrees of freedom
on inexpensive 32-bit Windows workstations as well as high end 64-bit
Linux clusters. |
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Robust
contact capability using a 3D surface contact method which
easily handles dissimilar meshes between components including frictional
effects. |
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Basic
through advanced material models including temperature
dependent materials, non-linear elasticity and plasticity effects,
creep, and thermo-elasticity. |
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Substructuring and Model Reduction allows the creation
and reuse of substructures to improve the efficiency of large analyses
and provides a convenient method to transfer model data to subcontractors. |
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Submodeling allows in-depth evaluation of particular regions. |
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Load
and Boundary Condition Interpolation, allows mapping of
thermal and CFD output from specialized heat transfer and fluid
dynamic models to the structural model for load and boundary condition
definition. |
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Multiple
subcase capability provides a highly efficient technique
to evaluate the response of structures to many different load cases
and boundary conditions. |
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Extensive
composite material support including, 2D orthotropic,
3D orthotropic, general anisotropic, laminate lay-up definitions,
and a wide range of failure criteria. |
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Advanced
solution sequences such as linear and nonlinear static,
transient dynamic, steady state dynamic, frequency extraction, heat
transfer, and other analysis types, provide a choice of appropriate
analysis types for different types of simulations. |
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Integration
with specialized fatigue applications, such as Winlife which is available as an add-on to the NEi Nastran product suite and also fe-safe, nCode, Falancs and FE-Fatigue. |
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