dave@csd4.milw.wisc.edu.UUCP (05/13/88)
I have a Civil Engineering professor who is inquiring about general purpose finite element programs to use in both teaching and research. He currently is using ANSYS on a pc, but this severely limits his capabilities of performing advanced nonlinear analysis for research. He mentions a series of packages: ANSYS, ADNIA, ABAQUS, MSC/NASTRAN, and MARC. A friend of mine mentioned that NASTRAN is public domain. Can anyone else inform me more on any of this stuff? How I can get it? What it requires to run on? We are running a Sperry 7000/40 (cci tahoe processor) with 32 meg of memory and 1.6 G of already full disk. We have no graphics output devices other than tektronix 40xx terminals and emulators. The software is 4.3 bsd+ with source license. We also have a Univac, I mean Sperry, I mean Unisys 1100, but I shouldn't really mention that.... Send me mail - I'll post summaries if anyone is interested. Dave Rasmussen c/o Computing Services Division @ U of WI - Milwaukee Internet: dave@csd4.milw.wisc.edu Uucp: uwvax!uwmcsd1!uwmcsd4!dave {o,o} Csnet: dave%uwmcsd4@uwm Bellnet: +1 (414) 229-5133 \u/ ICBM: 43 4 58 N/ 87 55 52 W Usnail: 3200 N Cramer #E380, Milw WI 53211