Developments Made at NASA LaRC

Many of the major software packages mentioned here (MSC/PATRAN, MSC/NASTRAN, Pro/Engineer, Pro/Manufacturing, Code V and OrCAD) are commercial packages. Several of the codes used are available through NIST (SINDA-85, TRASYS). The SHABP code has received extensive development here at Langley, to improve it for use on the Hyper-X program. The TACT code was developed entirely here at Langley, for correlation of vibration modal models to test data.
Many of the links between codes are used as they exist in the commercial packages. However, some have been modified or developed here at Langley to meet a particular need. The link from Pro/Engineer to SHABP (Supersonic Hypersonic Arbitrary Body Program) is basically an import into SHABP of the IGES geometry, to facilitate definition of the model. The link from SHABP to PATRAN was developed here at LaRC, and includes the development of a text file format and methods for importing the pressure and heat load information into PATRAN Thermal. That encompasses also a set of FORTRAN code that is used to interpolate the heat loads, in both time and space, from the coarse grid used in SHABP to the finer grid used for analysis in PATRAN THERMAL.
To answer the inquires I get as to how to find the latest SHABP version, the SHABP contacts I have are:

For the most updated AF version of the SHABP code itself: 
Amar Bhungalia (AFRL), (937) 255-8335, Amarshi.Bhungalia@wpafb.af.mil
   or
   David W. Adamczak, (937) 255-0329, david.adamczak@va.afrl.af.mil
   Gregory Moster (RMLS), (937) 255-8453, gregory.moster@wpafb.af.mil
   Jeffrey V. Zweber, Ph.D. (RMLS), (937) 255-5120, Jeffrey.Zweber@wpafb.af.mil

 At Langley:
  Chuck Leonard (NASA LaRC), (757) 864-8032, Charles.P.Leonard@nasa.gov

 Other:
   Dr. Danny D. Liu (Zona Tech), (480) 945-9988, danny@zonatech.com

A link from MSC/NASTRAN to Code-V was also developed here at Langley, to satisfy the need to export deflection results to Code V for a highly deflection-critical optical bench. To link from NASTRAN to ZeMAX, the commercial package SigFit is used. Since the TACT software was developed at Langley, its link to PATRAN (it functions as an embedded module of PATRAN) was also developed here. A link between the ablation code CMA and Patran was developed by MSC under contract to NASA Langley. Links from both Patran Thermal and Thermal Desktop to STEP-TAS were developed (by MSC and Cullimore and Ring, respectively) under contract to Langley.

Interface Guide.doc This is an EXTREMELY long and detailed documenation of all the interfaces currently in use at LaRC.
(Note: If you do not have Word, you can download a Word viewer at Microsoft's viewer download site)