NASA Centers and Their Computational Structural Research

To gain a sense of the types of computational structures projects under­taken by NASA and the contributions of individual Centers to the Agency’s efforts, it is necessary to examine briefly the computational structures analysis activities undertaken at each Center, reviewing representative projects, computer programs, and instances of technology transfer to industry—aircraft and otherwise. Projects included the development of new computer programs, the enhancement of existing programs, inte­gration of programs to provide new capabilities, and, in some cases, just the development of methods to apply existing computer programs to new types of problems. The unique missions of the different Centers certainly influenced the research, but many valuable developments came from col­laborative efforts between Centers and applying tools developed at one Center to the problems being worked at another.[849]