NEiNastran Gets Major Upgrade

V8.4 offers support for huge models, better performance, and enhanced nonlinear and dynamic solutions

V8.4 offers support for huge models, better performance, and enhanced nonlinear and dynamic solutions

By DE Editors

Noran Engineering Inc. (Westminster, CA) has announced the releaseof NEiNastran V8.4 for Linux and Windows. Version 8.4 incorporates morethan 70 customer-driven enhancements, according to the company.

Key Solver improvements include support for huge models of more than 7million degrees of freedom in Windows XP as well as enhanced nonlinearand dynamic solutions that said to increase performance by 2 to 10x.Other enhancements include more accurate and robust quad shell element,automated cyclic symmetric boundary conditions, a faster LanczosEigensolver, Craig-Bampton reduction for substructuring andsuper-element generation, Modal Assurance Criteria (MAC), and ModalCross Orthogonality (MXO) plots. Additionally, V8.4 has newproductivity tools for aerospace, maritime, and automotive users.

NEiNastran ‘s Editor has also been enhanced with full-post processingcapability. Improvements include a new graphics kernel, enhancedpost-processing utilities, and global settings. Automatic X,Y plottingof modal effective mass, 3D X,Y,Z modal animation, and graphs ofanalysis correlation matrices now can be displayed in a visual Windowsformat as an aid to complex analysis and problem solving.

For complete details, go the Noran Engineering website.

 

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