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The development of finite element software goes back to the early 60s when Richard MacNeal and Bob Schwendler in 1963 founded the MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation (MSC).

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    The pre- and post-processor are identical in most of the finite element packages.

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    The original name is known in French as: Système International d’Unités.

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    More information on units can be found in the brochures of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM): www.bipm.org/en/si.

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Öchsner, A., Öchsner, M. (2018). Introduction to Marc/Mentat. In: A First Introduction to the Finite Element Analysis Program MSC Marc/Mentat. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71915-3_1

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