Thanks DG for the response.
In the end, I used the TEMP card, one for the initial condition and one for the final condition. The cards are then called by TEMPERATURE(INITIAL) and TEMPERATURE(LOAD).
I took the nodal temperature from the thermal software, and assigned it to the grid points. Each...
Hi,
I have a model built in APEX and converted in Patran comprising of 40+ components, and I need to perform a thermal-structural analysis on it in Nastran.
The temperature of the elements are calculated using another software (ESATAN-TMS), and the results are provided as nodal temperatures...