Kim Parnell's Postings

The MSC Software download will be available at approximately 8:00PM Pacific tonight (July 27, 2010).

An interesting interview with Prof.Steve Tsai has recently been posted on the MSC Software Blog at:

http://simulatemore.mscsoftware.com/2009/12/22/trust-simulation/

MD-Nastran Edition for Stanford
Example updates coming!

•Updated version of the OpenHole design case will be released this week. Check Forum announcements

This message is in response to Kauser Imtiaz regarding sample models using cohesive elements for MD-Nastran. Yes, there are several good examples already available (and more coming all the time).

We want to get some additional demonstration problems available to the MD-Nastran users. Current plan is to complete the Open Hole case to include buckling and modal analysis.

This post is in response to Yuval Freed of May 13, 2009 (see below).

Related to the message that Dr.Freed posted earlier regarding running the analysis and viewing results in Excel using MicMac/FEA for MD-Nastran: I am going to provide some clarifications on the insta

I just realized that I should have created a New Post last week rather than a Reply. Here is the reply to the question by Dr.Yuval Freed:

Is there a location in the Forums that lists the Members? It might help to foster communication between the participants.
Kim