Product Info Video's

5 Minute Product Info Video's

MSC Software, have begun to churn out these 5 minute movie clips that showcase a simulation topic that are posted to the public on YouTube and as subscribe-able podcasts through iTunes. These mini movies feature MSC's talented application engineers speaking presenting an engineering topic of their choice while showcasing the strong solution that MSC Software provides.


You can access these movies through YouTube from their respective links below, or you may subscribe to iTunes and have these movies download automatically every time a new one is released.

To subscribe to the movies via podcast please click on this link (please ensure that you use the USA iTunes Store at the bottom of the iTunes Store page)

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or Download it or Access each directly from YouTube (links below):



Virtual Prototyping of Cardiovascular Stents by Kim Parnell

Topic: Kim Parnell on the application of Finite Element Analysis to the cardiovascular stent process and how they perform when implanted in the body.

Target Market: Biomedical applications, All other applications of nonlinear simulation

Solutions featured: Marc, SimXpert, Templates



Virtual Prototyping within the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry by Dave Theus

Topic: Dave Theus on virtual prototyping within the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry specifically in regards to the Structural Design of a Package

Target Market: Consumer packaging industry, All other applications of nonlinear simulation

Solutions Featured: Marc, MD Nastran, Adams, SimManager, SimXpert, Templates



Virtual prototyping of Helicopter Flight Control Systems by Claude Ginsburg

Topic: Claude Ginsburg, Fluid Scientist on failures in helicopter flight control systems simulated with kinematics/multi-body dynamics & lumped-parameter

Target Market: Helicopter Manufacturers, All other industries that use hydraulics and control systems combined with their mechanical systems

Solutions featured: Adams, Easy5



Techniques for Validating and Checkout of Finite Element Models (FEM Validation) by Dominick Lauzon

Topic: Dominick Lauzon: Senior Application Engineer, MSC.Software Discusses: New and fast techniques for Validating and Checkout of Finite Element Models using Model Validation or Model Checkout. Refer...

Target Market: Aerospace industry, Aircraft manufacturers, Automotive, Satellite, all manufacturers that need to validate their FEM models.

Solutions featured: SimXpert, Templates, MD Nastran



Simulating and Analyzing Human Muscle by Mark Carlson

Topic: Accurately simulate human muscle and behavior, using MSC Patran and MSC Marc. Example used is the human tongue, to illustrate complex modeling techniques using geometric representation...

Target Market: Muscle simulation, biomedical applications, surgically implanted implant manufacturers, all other implant manufacturers, all nonlinear

Solutions featured: Marc, Patran



Creating Realistic Virtual Road Profiles for your Vehicle Dynamics by Jagan Kypa

Topic: Jagan Kypa on the Road Builder utility in Adams Car

Target Market: Automotive, Aerospace, General Machinery, Any product that needs roads

Solutions featured: Adams Car, Adams



Virtual Prototyping Solutions for Automotive Door Seal by Fouad Hafiani (narrated by Michel Samah)

Topic: Fouad Hafiani on door seal nonlinear analyses including a DOE study

Target Market: Any manufacturer of rubber products, plastic products, any manufacturer that does any nonlinear analyses, customers that do DOE analyses, Automotive, Aerospace, rubber seals, gaskets, etc …

Solutions featured: SimXpert, MD Nastran, Marc, SimXpert Templates, Adams Insight



Easy and Effective Virtual Prototyping of Vehicle Suspensions by Akshay Sheorey

Topic: Akshay Sheorey on the Vehicle suspension virtual prototyping

Target Market: Automotive, Transportation, General Machinery, products that use suspension systems

Solutions featured: Adams/Car



Management and Traceability of Large Complex FEM Assemblies by Dominick Lauzon

Topic: Dominick Lauzon on proper FEM assembly and configuration management

Target Market: All Industries, any company that deals with assemblies, many FE parts, many design changes, many configurations,

Solutions featured: SimXpert, SimManager



Virtual Prototyping of Events Involving Fluid-Structure Interactions by Vijay Tunga

Topic: Vijay Tunga on simulating events with Fluid structure interaction

Target Market: All industries where fluid and structure interact; example applications like birdstrikes, explosions, aerodynamics, fuel tank sloshing/crush, bottle crush/drop, airbag deployement and many others ..

Solutions featured: MD Nastran, Patran



Finite Element Analysis of Plastic Gears under Severe Loading Conditions by Dan Wolf

Topic: Dan Wolf on analysis of plastic gears under severe loading conditions (2 gears - lock one gear as one rotates to simulate breaking behavior of teeth)

Target Market: All manufacturers that produce products that can experience geometric and/or material nonlinearity, also plastic gear manufacturers, plastic components in mechanisms, all plastic products, rubber products, consumer products, automotive, electronics, general machinery, aero etc …

Solutions featured: MSC Marc


Virtual Prototyping Solutions for the Wind Energy Industry by Karlheinz Peters

Topic: Karlheinz Peters on virtual prototyping solutions for the wind energy industry

Target Market: Wind Energy Industry, All manufacturers and suppliers of products, systems, subsystems and components to do with wind turbines, and other wing energy products, alternative energies

Solutions featured: Adams, Marc, MD Nastran


Accurate and Effective Simulation of Fan Blade out and Bird Strike events on Jet Engines by Casey Heydari

Topic: Casey Heydari on a unique solution for accurately and realistically performing jet engine fan blade out and bird strike analyses

Target Market: Aerospace, Airframe manufacturers, jet engine manufacturers, all other industries (this movie can also be used to showcase MSC’s ability to easily solve the world’s complex problems)

Solutions featured: MD Nastran (SOL 700 implicit, SOL 700 Explicit, SOL 400)


Virtual Prototyping of Centralizer Mechanisms used in the Oil and Gas Industry by Juan Lopez-De-Alda

Topic: Juan Lopez-De-Alda speaks to Centralizers used to centralize tools/devices/pipes as it travels thorough casings in the oil and gas industry

Target Market (from most specific to general): Centralizer mechanism manufactures, Oil and Gas industry equipment manufactures, Heavy Machinery, any moving mechanism that is affected by dynamic forces, Biomedical, Automotive, Aerospace

Solutions featured: Adams, MD Adams, MSC Nastran, MD Nastran