Updated Multidisciplinary Optical-System-Analysis Software

Version 5.0 of the Integrated Modeling of Optical Systems (IMOS) software has been released. A previous version was described in "Software for Multidisciplinary Analysis of Optical Systems" (NPO-20536), NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 24, No. 11 (November 2000), page 36. In both versions, IMOS is a MATLAB™ computer program that provides many functions for analysis of a system represented by mathematical models of its thermal, structural, control, and/or optical aspects. IMOS is unique in making it possible to perform the entire multidisciplinary analysis in one program. The new features incorporated into version 5.0 include a capability for calculating stresses in rods and beams, a utility subprogram that generates equivalent properties of laminates, a three-dimensional-viewing subprogram, a provision for temperature-dependent heat input for thermal analyses, a provision for a simulated stiffness for the drilling degree of freedom of a plate structural element, a provision for a lumped-mass formulation for a beam, a capability to orient properties of materials with respect to plate structural elements, plate-to-acoustic and beam-to-acoustic connections for statistical energy analysis, geometric stiffnesses for plate elements (for buckling analysis), subprograms for translation from the SINDA program to IMOS and from IMOS to the NASTRAN program, and greatly improved subprograms for translation from IMOS to SINDA and from NASTRAN to IMOS.