Accession Number:

ADA030061

Title:

The ASTRA System,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

BOEING COMPUTER SERVICES INC SEATTLE WASH

Personal Author(s):

• Greene,B. E.
• Herness,E. D.
• Ice,M. W.
• Salus,W. L.
• Strome,D. R.

Report Date:

1972-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

61.0

Abstract:

This eighth volume of the ASTRA documentation gives a brief introduction of the ASTRA Computer System. Major design specifications are presented, and the two user-oriented input languages of ASTRA, SAIL and SAUL, are discussed. Brief descriptions of the major computational modules are given and finally, a few engineering applications are presented. Author

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• *COMPOSITE MATERIALS
• *FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
• *STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
• *MATRIX MATERIALS
• STRESSES
• TENSILE PROPERTIES
• PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
• NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
• DEFLECTION
• STRAIN(MECHANICS)
• STRUCTURAL RESPONSE

Subject Categories:

• Laminates and Composite Materials
• Numerical Mathematics
• Computer Programming and Software
• Mechanics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE