Suggest FEA package?
Suggest FEA package?
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MSC Nastran, last I checked, was approx $10 000 USD + 2000/yr
ANSYS Professional is approx. the same price.
Can anyone suggest a decent FEA package to analyse 3d plate structures and frames for, roughly $5000 USD?
I need to do mostly linear static analysis of railcars and the occasional building frame, etc.
Thanks in advance.
GA
ANSYS Professional is approx. the same price.
Can anyone suggest a decent FEA package to analyse 3d plate structures and frames for, roughly $5000 USD?
I need to do mostly linear static analysis of railcars and the occasional building frame, etc.
Thanks in advance.
GA





RE: Suggest FEA package?
Strand 7 (http://www.strand7.com/)from G+D computing. This package is a bit weak on mesh construction but otherwise has some nice features. It is good value and should easily come in below your budget.
LUSAS (http://www.lusas.com/). A nice package for the price, should meet your budget. Better geometry processing than Strand.
COSMOS/M (http://www.cosmosm.com/). Do not know much about the package but I believe it is much cheaper than ANSYS.
Sure there are others but these will do to be getting on with. Try to think long term in your choice of software. Changing software suppliers after a few years can be traumatic
TERRY
RE: Suggest FEA package?
http://www.nenastran.com/
FEMAP is the pre and post-processor.
NE/Nastran is the "solver."
Sincerely,
Tom Irvine
http://www.vibrationdata.com
RE: Suggest FEA package?
Their web site is http://www.caefem.com
pj
RE: Suggest FEA package?
RE: Suggest FEA package?
femap is a top quality pre and post processor and it has the ideas solvers behind it now. Not so sure on the price but I think it has been pitched as a low cost solution.
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Cosmos/designstar is also interesting, but limited on non-linear analyses. It is also perfectly compatible with most modellers. (+/- 10K)
Otherwise, Ansys just came out with with its version 7.0 which has all the power of ansys pro but with the designspace interface. It is quite expensive (+/- 18K), but it is worth it. If you don't need non-linear analyses, you should go with designspace.
RE: Suggest FEA package?
This will give you way more linear elastic static modeling capability than it sounds like you need. Beam, plate/shell, solid, gap, cable elements; several choices of solvers; 2-D and 3-D automatic mesh generation and good graphics capabilities.
Barry Santana