Bug#807967: ITP: nastran -- NASTRAN is the NASA Structural Analysis System, a finite element analysis program (FEA)
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Luca Dall'Olio" <luca.dallolio@gmail.com>
* Package name : nastran
Version : 0.1.95
Upstream Author : NASA <github@lists.nasa.gov>
* URL :
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/my-backup-2015/nastran_0.1.95-debianpackage.zip
* License : NASA OPEN SOURCE AGREEMENT VERSION 1.3
Programming Lang: Fortran
Description : NASA NASTRAN
NASTRAN is the NASA Structural Analysis System, a finite element analysis
program (FEA) completed in the early 1970's. It was the first of its kind and
opened the door to computer-aided engineering. Subsections of a design can be
modeled and then larger groupings of these elements can again be modeled.
NASTRAN can handle elastic stability analysis, complex eigenvalues for
vibration and dynamic stability analysis, dynamic response for transient and
steady state loads, and random excitation, and static response to concentrated
and distributed loads, thermal expansion, and enforced deformations.
This package allows engineers to access a de-facto standard FEA engine.
It contains 164 tests with reference data (all passing
https://travis-ci.org/ldallolio/NASTRAN-95).
We use it to test converters to and from the NASTRAN syntax.
Similar projects are code-aster, calculix-ccx, elmer but they are
different in many aspects:
- the NASTRAN input syntax and output formats make it compatible with
some important commercial products
- it contains original algorithms
- it is really fast and portable (it can run over android out-of-the box)
- zero library dependencies
- it is developed to have a really, really small memory footprint
A small but active supporting group is actually working at it,
there is a discussion group at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/nastran,
but co-maintainers and sponsoring are very welcome and would certainly help.
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