The main problem here is your stress vs. strain curve, Nastran does not allow the discontinuities/duplicate entries, your model has - delete the ones indicated. I also deleted function 1 since it's not used at all
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I posted a video on Youtube on how to do with Nastran's CBUSH element and a Displacement vs. Force curve. Please take a look at it and let me know if you have any additional questions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCmqfunNSgw
Mark.
Norm,
We've made some updates to FEMAP v10.2 that handle more LOAD and SPCADD cards in Nastran. If you would like, send me the file and I will test it in v10.2 before it ships (next Tuesday).
Mark.
E-mail is sherman.mark at siemens.com
I don't want to product plug here, but it's something we can do in FEMAP. You can skin the outside of a solid mesh with shell elements, and then export them as STL or VRML. If you want to send me a Nastran formatted input file of the mesh, I could output an STL file for you.
Mark Sherman...