Atomproekt gets software licence

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Russian regulator Rostechnadzor had issued Atomproekt with a licence to use the MSC Nastran and Patran software systems to test the structural strength of nuclear islands.

"For Atomproekt, a licence to use this software is an important event," the company said today. "Although MSC Nastran/Patran has the required European licences, which are sufficient for state authorities in other countries, in Russia permission to use has only just been granted."

California-headquartered MSC Software describes Nastran as "a multidisciplinary structural analysis application used by engineers to perform static, dynamic, and thermal analysis across the linear and non-linear domains, complemented with automated structural optimization and award winning embedded fatigue analysis technologies, all enabled by high performance computing."

Patran is "pre/post-processing software for 'finite element analysis', providing solid modeling, meshing, analysis setup and post-processing for multiple solvers".

Atomproekt - the former VNIPIET (All-Russia Science Research and Design Institute of Power Engineering Technology), which since 2013 incorporates St Petersburg Atomenergoproekt (SPbAEP) - designs nuclear power projects, radiochemical plants and waste facilities.

Researched and written
by World Nuclear News