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Spinoff story
Stresses and Strains
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
Computerized Structural Analysis and Research Corporation (CSAR) flagship product is CSA/NASTRAN, a Finite Element Analysis program for structural, thermal, aeroelastic and acoustic analysis. CSAR's first products were software products for performing structural optimization in conjunction with MSC/NASTRAN. In 1984, CSAR released the first version of CSA/NASTRAN, then merely an enhanced version of COSMIC NASTRAN. In 1988, CSAR purchased the source code outright and released the first independent" version of CSA/NASTRAN."