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MSC Nastran
Trusted FEA simulation and results
With over 50 years of real-world experience in finite element analysis (FEA), MSC Nastran is the most trusted FEA solver for industries such as aerospace and automotive. MSC Nastran is a multidisciplinary structural analysis application used by engineers to perform static, dynamic, and thermal analysis across linear and nonlinear domains. It is complemented by automated structural optimization and award winning embedded fatigue analysis technologies, all enabled by high-performance computing.
The key benefits of using MSC Nastran are:
Benefits And Features
Trusted FEA simulation and results
Virtual testing and prototyping
Create virtual prototypes early in the design process to reduce costs traditionally associated with physical prototyping.
Ensure structural integrity
Remedy structural issues that may occur during a product’s service to minimize downtime and lower costs.
Optimise product performance
Optimise the performance of existing designs or develop unique product differentiators to gain competitive industry advantages.
What's New
Learn about the latest in MSC Nastran 2025.1
This latest version of MSC Nastran includes new method for performing supersonic aerodynamic analyses entirely within MSC Nastran, a way to capture essential nonlinear contact behaviour without needing a full nonlinear solver, a new way to handle rotordynamic analysis, performance improvements for nonlinear transient analysis and many enhancements
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