Nastran was developed by NASA (NASA Structural Analysis) and has been available as a commercial product through MSC Software. Now EDS have released their version called NX Nastran.

Read more on the EDS web site.

MSC Software has announced the release of MSC.Nastran 2004, which has enhanced functionality for noise, vibration and harshness (NVH), acoustics, dynamics and optimization.

Read more on the MSC.Nastran web site.

ESI Group have announced the release of AutoSEA 2003. AutoSEA2 2003 includes a new general laminate subsystem with visco-elastic material properties, enables predictions of the damping added by acoustic treatment layers, including foam-backed carpet, dash barriers and headliner trims, and now supports object grouping and provides new features for model quality checking. To help diagnose the noise paths and to identify the design parameters which are controlling the predicted noise levels, the energy level “thermogram” has been enhanced.

Read the press release on the ESI Group web site.

MSC Software have announced the release of MSC.Nastran 2004. Significant reductions in solutions times have been made since MSC.Nastran 2001.

Read the press release on the MSC Software web site.

LMS International have released version 5.6 of LMS Sysnoise, boundary element analysis software for prediction of noise and vibration. This version adds new capabilities to predict flow-induced noise and aero acoustic phenomena.

Read the press release on the LMS web site.

ANSYS have released version 7.1. Of particular interest to acoustic and vibration researchers are the improvements to the coupled field and modal analyses. Using the Mesh-based parallel Code Coupling Interface (MpCCI), you can now perform fluid-solid interaction analyses using ANSYS and a third-party CFD code, even if the meshes are dissimilar. The sparse solver and Block Lanczos eigensolver now support parallel processing for the Linux 32-bit platform, when using four to eight processors on this platform, you will improve the processing speed by a factor of 3 to 3.5 times that of a single processor.

Read the press release on the ANSYS web site.

National Instruments have released LabVIEW 7 Express, which is the culmination of 4 years of effort. The software can be compiled for a range of targets including Palm OS, and Microsoft PocketPC PDAs.

Read more on the National Instruments web site.

MSC Software have released MSC.ADAMS/Car Ride which was developed in partnership with several European automotive manufacturers. The software allows engineers to predict typical NVH metrics.

Read the press release on the MSC Software web site.

LMS International have announced the release revision 4 of their LMS Test.Lab at the 2003 edition of the SAE Noise & Vibration Conference.

Read more on the LMS International web site.

Bruel and Kjaer have release two new software packages. Acoustic Determinator Type 7816 is a tool to calculate the sound power level of sources by measuring sound pressure levels in the field. Classifier is a PC-based software package for laboratory or field measurements of building acoustics using Brüel & Kjær’s PULSE version 7.x.