Computer Applications for Engineering

The CAE application in engineering began in earnest in 1978. Before then, original programs by means of FORTRAN were performed for each special purpose. Therefore, we could not apply to any other analysis field. In 1978, the general purpose finite element program (NASTRAN) was introduced, and now we can solve four fields of structural analysis, fluid analysis, thermal conduction analysis and electro-magnetic analysis. The CAD application in engineering has begun in earnest by introduction of CADAM to host computer in 1982. Present number of terminals are 43 (for CADAM) and its response time is 0.5 second on average. This paper describes the CAE/CAD application in engineering.