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Objectives Of This Webinar
This webinar is intended to:
• Show how Patran and MD Nastran can complement engineering
education
• Raise your awareness
• Give you confidence
• Provide a jump-start & ideas for follow-on assistance
• Tour the MSC Academia website to see what content is available to
help you implement MSC’s software in an academic environment.
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Product Overview
Pre-Processing
● Import/create geometry
● Create finite element mesh MD Nastran
● Apply boundary condition
● Apply loads
Solver
● Create material properties
● Create element properties
● Submit model to solver
● Solve for displacements
● Compute strains
● Compute stresses
Post-Processing
● Deformation plots
● Stress fringe plots
● Reports
Element
Sample Finite Element Model
Derive element stiffness matrices from Apply boundary conditions to constrain the
material properties, element properties, and geometry model
Assemble all element stiffness matrices into a Solve the matrix equation [K] {u} = {F} for
nodal displacements
global stiffness matrix [K]
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Vehicle Design Projects
• Multiple Analysis Opportunities
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Post-Processing .op2
● Deformation plots
● Stress fringe plots
● Reports .f04
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.ses
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Workflow in Patran
● The Main Menu
1 - Select Analysis Code
2 - Import Geometry
Select Menu
(Filter Buttons)
– Material: Steel
• E = 30 x 106 psi
• = 0.3
Define a material
property for the
piston head.
Create an
element property
for the piston
head.
Plot displacements
and stresses.
Publish a stress
summary report.
Create static,
animated, and vrml
images for reports
and presentations.
Pre-Processing
● Import/create geometry
● Create finite element mesh MD Nastran
● Apply boundary condition
● Apply loads
Solver
● Create material properties
● Create element properties
● Submit model to solver
● Solve for displacements
● Compute strains
● Compute stresses
Post-Processing
● Deformation plots
● Stress fringe plots
● Reports
F = M .a
4 in lbf psi lbf . sec2/in lbf . sec2/in4 1.0 386.1 in lbf psi
in/sec2
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If you have any questions after today, you can:
• request information www.mscsoftware.com/university/contact
• post to our forum: http://forums.mscsoftware.com/adams/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=university
• or send email to university@mscsoftware.com
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