NASTRAN Compatible Finite Elements (CoFE) is an object-oriented MATLAB-based program for structural analysis and design. The structural mesh, properties, multipoint constraints, loads, and boundary conditions are defined using the NASTRAN free field, small field, or large field bulk data input format. Definition of the objective function and constraint functions for optimization problems is done in MATLAB. Examples are provided to illustrate the straightforward process of creating analysis and optimization cases.
A web user manual is hosted at: http://vtpasquale.github.io/NASTRAN_CoFE/ and maintained on gh-pages branch of this repository.