Quick Guide to MSAT

A report presents additional information on the Mechanical System Design/Analysis Tool (MSAT) computer program, which was reported in "Program for Designing a Mechanical System" (LEW-16710, NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 23, No. 9 (September 1999), page 32. To recapitulate: MSAT is a user-friendly, multidisciplinary software system that facilitates and accelerates the synthesis and analysis of designs of mechanical systems. MSAT features a modular architecture that organizes design-analysis tasks around object-oriented representations of (1) components of an aircraft engine or other system that one seeks to design, (2) analysis programs, and (3) data-transfer links among the components and analysis programs.