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From: "Yvonne Kennedy" <yvonne.kennedy@engineering-e.com>
To: <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: Another Linux convert
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:48:39 -0700

To cater to a growing Linux-using customer base,  MSC.Software recently
introduced a Linux version of the world's most widely used finite element
analysis (FEA) program -- MSC.Nastran.

MSC.Nastran is the world's leading finite element analysis (FEA) software.
This powerful tool for virtual manufacturing is used in almost every
industry -- from aerospace to biomechanical devices --  to model and analyze
designs on computer before building expensive physical prototypes.  The
software has a wide range of applications: from analyzing the effects of
impact on an aluminum car door, to replicating panel flutter effects on a
space vehicle; from simulating the implantation of a miniature cardiac
defribulator into a human heart, to analyzing the heat created by a V16
train engine.  Virtual manufacturing with MSC. Nastran gives accurate FEA
results that will not only save manufacturers money in the design process,
but impact the environment positively -- fewer "real world" mistakes, less
waste.

This software is available at:
http://www.engineering-e.com/software/index.html