alt - Alternation source
bd - Bulk data source
bin - Binary
demoout - demo case output
future - source not used now
inp - demo case file
mds - machine depended source
mis - machine independed source
rf - Rigid frame
um - user manual
utility - tools
- Download as ZIP.
- Unzip to C:\NASTRAN-95
- Set C:\NASTRAN-95\bin into Windows 10's PATH
- Add RFDIR variable and set its value as C:\NASTRAN-95\rf
For example you want to run nastran.exe to solve case C:\NASTRAN-95\inp\d01011a.inp
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Run CMD.exe and change to C:\NASTRAN-95\inp
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In command line, Key in:
nastran d01011a.inp
Hit ENTER key to run. There will be output in the terminal window.
Double click nasthelp.exe to start
When you put plot commands into inp file, nastran could generates plot file.
NASTRAN has been released under the
NASA Open Source Agreement version 1.3.
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.
NOTE: There is no technical support available for this software.