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Note: This appendix includes a list of the dates and locations of the NASTRAN Users’ Colloquia and NASTRAN applications presented at the Colloquia by "nontraditional” users, i. e., industry other than aerospace, Government agencies other than NASA, and universities. Not every paper from these sources is listed, only those that represent applications. Many other papers were presented on modeling techniques, capability improvements, etc., which are not listed.

NASTRAN USERS’ COLLOQUIA DATES AND LOCATIONS
#	YEAR	DATE	LOCATION	CHAIRPERSON(S) / OTHER NOTES
1 st	1971	Sept. 1 3-15	NASA Langley	J. Philip Raney (NASTSRAN SMO)
2nd	1972	Sept. 11-12	NASA Langley	J. Philip Raney
3rd	1973	Sept. 11-12	NASA Langley	<not available>
4th	1975	Sept. 9-11	NASA Langley	Deene J. Weidman
5th	1976	Oct. 5-6	NASA Ames	Deene J. Weidman
6th	1977	Oct. 4-6	NASA Lewis	Deene J. Weidman (Langley) and Christos Chamis (Lewis)
7th	1978	Oct. 4-6	NASA Marshall	Deene J. Weidman (Langley) Robert L. McComas (Marshall)
8th	1979	Oct. 30-31	NASA Goddard	Robert L. Brugh (COSMIC) Reginal
9th	1980	Oct. 22-23	NASA Kennedy	Robert L. Brugh (COSMIC) Henry Harris (KSC)
Note: From this point on, locations were no longer at NASA Centers, individual co/chairs are not identified in the proceedings, and the NASA Scientific & Technical Information (STI) Branch (or program) is listed in the proceedings as the responsible organization.
10th	1982	May 1 3-14	New Orleans, LA	Co-chairs not identified.

11th	1983	May 2-6	San Francisco, CA
12th	1984	May 7-1 1	Orlando, FL
13th	1985	May 6-10	Boston, MA
14th	1986	May 5-9	San Diego, CA
15th	1987	May 4-8	Kansas City, MO
16th	1988	Apr. 25-29	Arlington, VA
17th	1989	Apr. 24-28	San Antonio, TX
18th	1990	Apr. 23-27	Portland, OR	COSMIC, under the STI Branch.
19th	1991	Apr. 22-26	Williamsburg, VA
20th	1992	Apr. 27-May 1	Colorado Springs, CO
21st	1993	Apr. 26-30	Tampa, FL

NONAEROSPACE INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS OF NASTRAN PRESENTED AT USERS’ COLLOQUIA

YEAR	COMPANY	DESCRIPTION
1972	Westenhoff and Novick	Analysis and design of on-grade railroad track support.
General Motors	NASTRAN and in-house code for automotive structures.
Westinghouse (Hanford)	Fuel handling machinery for reactors.
Kleber-Colombes	Tires.
Control Data Corp (CDC)	Structural analysis of 40-story building.
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)	Structural dynamic and thermal analysis nuclear reactor vessel support system.
1975	B. F. Goodrich	Tires.
Exxon	Petroleum processing machinery.
Littleton Rsch & Eng, with CDC	Propeller-induced ship vibration.
Westinghouse (Hanford)	Seismic analysis of nuclear reactor structures.
Reactor Centrum Nederland & Hazameyer B. V.	Electromagnetic field problems.
General Motors	Modeling and analysis of acoustic cavities.
1976	Sargent & Lundy (2 papers, 1 with CSC)	Deformations of thick cylinders (power plants); seismic analysis of nuclear power plant control panel.
EBASCO Services, with Universal Analytics	Concrete cracking.
1977	Sperry Marine with Univ VA	Analysis of pressure vessels.
1978	Tennessee Eastman Co.	NASTRAN uses in petrochemical industry.
EBASCO Services with Grumman (2)	Tokomak Fusion Test Reactor toroidal field coil and vacuum vessel structures.
B. F. Goodrich	Rubber sonar dome window.
1979	B. F. Goodrich	Belt tensioning.
1980	Ontario Hydro	Seismic analysis.
NKF Engineering	Problems involving enforced boundary motion.
Tennessee Eastman	Analysis of heat-transfer fluid fill pipe failures.
1982	B. F. Goodrich	Bead area contact load at tire-wheel interface.

1984	Tennessee Eastman	Support system for large compressor.
Hughes Offshore	Bolted marine riser structure.
1985	John Deere	Use of COSMIC NASTRAN in design department.
1986	Texas Instruments	Nonlinear magnetic circuits.
1987	Texas Instruments	Forces on magnetized bodies.
NKF Eng.	HVAC duct hanger systems.
1988	Tiernay Turbines	Stress and vibration analysis of gas turbine components.
Texas Instruments	Magnetostatic nonlinear model of printhead.
1989	Deutsch Metal Components	General product line improvement (hydraulics, pneumatics, other power system components).
Intergraph	NASTRAN in integrated conceptual design environ.
Dynacs Eng.	Flexible multibody dynamics and control (NASTRAN with TREETOPS).
Texas Instruments	Micromechanical deformable mirror.
1990	Analex Corp., with NASA Lewis	Low velocity impact analysis.
1991	Tennessee Eastman	Distillation tray structures.
1993	Butler Analyses	Seismic analysis.

OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCY NASTRAN APPLICATIONS PRESENTED AT USERS’ COLLOQUIA

YEAR	GOVERNMENT AGENCY	DESCRIPTION
1971	Naval Air Dev Ctr	F-14A boron horizontal stabilizer static and dynamic.
U. S. Army Air Mobility R&D Lab (USAAMRDL) with NASA Langley	NASTRAN in structural design optimization.
1975	Naval Weapons Center	Modeling and analysis of damaged wings.
Naval Underwater Systems Center (NUSC)	Transient analysis of bodies with moving boundaries.
(David Taylor) Naval Ship Rsch & Dev Ctr (DTN – SRDC)	Dynamic analysis of submerged structures.
Argonne Nat Lab	Fluid-coupled concentric cylinders (nuclear reactors).
1976	DTNSRDC	Underwater shock response.
NUSC	Fluid-structure interactions.
DTNSRDC	Submerged structures.
USAAMRDL with Boeing Vertol	Thermal and structural analysis of helicopter transmission.
U. S. Army, Watervliet	Crack problems.
1977	DTNSRDC	Finite element solutions for free surface flows.
NUSC	Analysis of magnetic fields.
U. S. Army, Watervliet	Large-deformation analysis of fiber-wrapped shells.
1978	Wright-Patterson AFB	Ceramic structures.
DTNSRDC	Magnetostatic field problems.
1979	U. S. Army Armament Rsch & Dev Command (USAARDC) (2)	Stress concentrations in screw heads, elastic – plastic analysis.
NUSC	Dynamically loaded periodic structures.
1980	NUSC, with A. O. Smith	Ring element dynamic stresses.
USAARDC (2)	Simulated damage UH-1 B tailboom, elastic – plastic analysis.

1982	DTNSRDC	Magnetic field problems.
NUSC	Axisymmetric fluid structure interaction problems.
USAARDC	Analysis of overloaded breech ring.
1983	DTNSRDC	Fluid-filled elastic piping systems.
NUSC (2)	Wave propagation through plates (2).
U. S. Army Benet Lab	Elastic-plastic analysis of annular plates.
1984	Dept. of the Navy	Acoustic scattering from submerged structures.
1985	WPAFB with Rockwell	NASTRAN in a computer aided design system.
Naval Wpns Ctr	Missile inertia loads.
WPAFB	Simulation of nuclear overpressures.
DTNSRDC	Loss factors, frequency-dependent damping treatment.
U. S. Army (Harry Diamond Lab) with Advanced Tech & Rsch	Transient analysis of fuze assembly.
DTNSRDC	Magnetic heat pump.
1986	DTNSRDC (3)	Multidisciplinary design; acoustics (2).
Naval Ocean Sys Ctr (2)	Stress concentrations; flutter of low aspect ratio wings.
NUSC	Surface impedance analysis.
1987	DTNSRDC (2)	Computer animation of modal and transient vibrations; analysis of ship structures to underwater explosion shocks.
DTNSRDC & NRL	Acoustic scattering.
NUSC	Patrol boat subject to planning loads.
1988	David Taylor Rsch Ctr (DTRC — renamed)	Static preload effects in acoustic radiation and scattering.
1989	DTRC	Low frequency resonances of submerged structures.
1990	DTRC	Scattering from fluid-filled structures.
1991	Los Alamos Nat Lab	Computer animation of displacements.
DTRC (2)	Transient fluid-structure interactions.
1992	Naval Surf. Warfare Ctr	Vibration and shock of laminated composite plates.
DTRC	Acoustics of axisymmetric fluid regions.
1993	U. S.A. F. Wright Lab	Design optimization studies.

UNIVERSITY APPLICATIONS OF NASTRAN PRESENTED AT USERS’ COLLOQUIA

Year	University	Description
1971	Old Dominion Univ	Space Shuttle dynamics model.
1972	Old Dominion Univ	Vibrations of cross-stiffened ship’s deck.
Louisiana Tech Univ	NASTRAN as a teaching aid.
1975	Univ of MD	NASTRAN for simultaneous parabolic equations.
Univ NB & Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, with IBM	Stress analysis of left ventricle of the heart.
Univ MD, with Army, Frankford Arsenal	Nonlinear analysis of cartridge case neck separation malfunction.
1977	Univ VA	(with Sperry Marine, listed in "Other Industry’ table)
1978	Univ MO Rolla	NASTRAN in education and research.
1982	Air Force Inst Tech	Elastic aircraft airloads.
1985	Univ of GA	Agricultural engineering-teaching and research.
Clemson Univ	Plated bone fracture gap motion.
Univ MO	Fillet weld stress.
1987	Univ of Naples, with NASA Langley	NASTRAN for prediction of aircraft interior noise.
1989	GWU, with DTRC	Electromagnetic fields and waves.

NASTRAN Reference Sources

At time of writing, these are available from the NASA Technical Reports Server at http://ntrs. nasa. gov:

NASTRAN: Users’ Experiences, NASA TM-X-2378, 1971.

NASTRAN: Users’ Experiences (2nd), NASA TM-X-2637, 1972.

NASTRAN: Users’ Experiences (4th), NASA TM-X-3278, 1975.

NASTRAN: Users’ Experiences (5th), NASA TM-X-3428, 1976.^^^^^^ Sixth NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-2018, 1977.

Seventh NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-2062, 1978.

Eight NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-2131, 1979.

Ninth NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-2151, 1980.

Tenth NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-2249, 1982.

Eleventh NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-2284, 1983.

Twelfth NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-2328, 1984.

Thirteenth NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-2373, 1985.

Fourteenth NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-2419, 1986.

Fifteenth NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-2481, 1987.

Sixteenth NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-2505, 1988.

Seventeenth NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-3029, 1989.

Eighteenth NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-3069, 1990.

Nineteenth NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-3111, 1991.

Twentieth NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-3145, 1992.

Twenty-First NASTRAN Users’ Colloquium, NASA CP-3203, 1993.

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