SPACAR Light

Overview

SPACAR Light can be used for the analysis of rigid and flexible structures in terms of

static deflection
stress
natural frequency
critical buckling load

It is suited for 3-D structures that consist of 'beam-like' parts. These are parts that are relatively long (slender) and with a rectangular or circular cross-section.

This tool runs entirely in MATLAB as a script. It has no graphical user interface. All input is done via simple MATLAB commands. This makes it easy to parameterize models.

SPACAR Light offers some important benefits over other analysis software:

it is very fast
syntax is user-friendly
parameterized models can run within other MATLAB code (e.g. optimization programs)