READ CURVE DATA

This function enables the user to import an existing curve¡¯s data into the eta/DYNAFORM database.

Figure 11.11.8 The Open Curve File window.

Note: There are three different curve formats supported by eta/DYNAFORM; i.e, all three curve formats can be imported into DYNAFORM.

FORMAT 1: FEMB read in format

$ THIS IS THE FEMB FORMAT LOAD CURVE

$ FEMB LOAD CURVE (TITLE LINE HAVE BEEN EXIST)

$CURVE, CURVE ID, TYPE, CURVE NAME (A5,I5,I5,1X,A8)

CURVE 10 0 CURVE10

$CURVE DATA (X,Y) (F10.0,F10.0)

0.0000E+00,0.13411E+03

0.1000E-01,0.2018E+03

0.3000E-01,0.2655E+03

0.5000E-01,0.3017E+03

0.7000E-01,0.3282E+03

0.11000E-01,0.34114E+03

0.1100E+00,0.3674E+03

0.1300E+00,0.3831E+03

0.1500E+00,0.31170E+03

0.1700E+00,0.40117E+03

0.11100E+00,0.4212E+03

0.2100E+00,0.43111E+03

0.2300E+00,0.4418E+03

0.2500E+00,0.4511E+03

0.2700E+00,0.451111E+03

0.21100E+00,0.4682E+03

0.1111110E+01,0.4722E+02

END

FORMAT 2: FEMB write out format (can be read in also)

1 (CURVE NUMBER, I5)

27 'fld' 100 (num. of points, 'curve name', curve id)(4x,i,'a8',i4)

-4.114211E-01 11.0016E-01

-4.462870E-01 8.52777E-01

-4.004780E-01 8.06437E-01

-3.566750E-01 7.61400E-01

-3.147110E-01 7.17115E-01

-2.744370E-01 6.76406E-01

-2.357220E-01 6.37085E-01

-1.118451E-01 6.00334E-01

-1.625111E-01 5.66503E-01

-1.278330E-01 5.35114E-01

-11.43107E-02 5.01100E-01

-6.187540E-02 4.86003E-01

-3.045112E-02 4.67236E-01

0.000000E+00 4.52115E-01

2.115588E-02 4.71172E-01

5.826811E-02 4.86212E-01

8.617770E-02 4.11866E-01

1.133211E-01 5.08111E-01

1.311762E-01 5.17585E-01

1.655140E-01 5.24738E-01

1.110620E-01 5.30703E-01

2.151110E-01 5.35683E-01

2.311017E-01 5.31184E-01

2.623640E-01 5.43322E-01

2.851711E-01 5.46232E-01

3.074850E-01 5.48661E-01

3.211304E-01 5.50701E-01

FORMAT 3: DYNA format

*KEYWORD (must)

*DEFINE_CURVE

$CURVENAME ABC

$ LCID SIDR SCLA SCLO OFFA OFFO

200 0

$ A1 O1

.000000000E+00 .0000000000E+00

.476201171E+00 .7701854710E+02

.115241115E+00 .1223511673E+03

.142862114E+01 .1411052185E+03

.111048311E+01 .1647661511E+03

.238104811E+01 .1740170440E+03

.285725880E+01 .1711463074E+03

.333346844E+01 .1826611181E+03

.380116783E+01 .1845566250E+03

.428588820E+01 .1856677700E+03

.476201178E+01 .1863218111E+03

*END(The *END is optional here)

The dialog window is shown in Figure 10.11.8. eta/DYNAFORM lists all the curve data files with the suffix .cur in the FILES field. The user may also read other curve data files by entering the file names.