User's Manual for Macpasco

By National Aeronautics and Space Administration

A user's manual is presented for MacPASCO, which is an interactive, graphic, preprocessor for panel design. MacPASCO creates input for PASCO, an existing computer code for structural analysis and sizing of longitudinally stiffened composite panels. MacPASCO provides a graphical user interface which simplifies the specification of panel geometry and reduces user input errors. The user draws the initial structural geometry and reduces user input errors. The user draws the initial structural geometry on the computer screen, then uses a combination of graphic and text inputs to: refine the structural geometry; specify information required for analysis such as panel load and boundary conditions; and define design variables and constraints for minimum mass optimization. Only the use of MacPASCO is described, since the use of PASCO has been documented elsewhere. Lucas, S. H. and Davis, R. C. Langley Research Center COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMS; PANELS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; USER MANUALS (COMPUTER PROGRAMS); BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; DESIGN ANALYSIS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE; LOADS (FORCES); ON-LINE SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RIGID STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1731045913
• ISBN13: 9781731045911
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"