NEA-1070 TPLOT.

TPLOT, Interactive Postprocessor of Transient Structure Problems

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: TPLOT.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
TPLOT	NEA-1070/01	Arrived	23-MAY-2002

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
NEA-1070/01	AMDAHL 5868-S

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3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

This is an interactive data management system suitable for post-processing of transient structural problems.

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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION:

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM

   1000 points per signal.
   100  signals can be loaded in the same time in memory.
   20   signals can be displayed on the same plot.

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

The interface program that loads signals in the data-base is the only one submitted in background. The loading time depends on the amount of the data-sets that are given in input. The ratio of 20 signals (of 1000 points each) loaded per CPU second, gives an idea of the run time.

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM

A) Data-base structure.
a) storage of both experimental and calculated signals for comparison.
b) Data-set exchange between data-base owners.
B) Elaboration and plotting of the stored signals.

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8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS

TPLOT is given as post-processor of the following programs: EURDYN, SEURBNUK, ASTARTRE, FRAP-T5, RODSWELL, SIMMER, TRACRUF, PHEAT, JOULE.
TPLOT uses the Tektronix PLOT-10 TCS libraries, it also needs a
machine dependent routine that supplies to it the time and the day in the FORTRAN type CHARACTER*8.

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
NEA-1070/01	23-MAY-2002	Masterfiled Arrived

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10. REFERENCES:

NEA-1070/01, included references:

- R. Doron:
  TPLOT - An Interactive Data Management System
  for Transient Problems.
  EUR-11610-EN (Ed. 3) (May 1988).

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11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS

TPLOT is designed to be used on a Tektronix 40xx or like terminal. It requires 2024 bytes of disk storage per signal (data-file). The amount of run time memory used is about 15EE98 bytes (hex.) for the TPLOT main program and 19E948 (hex.) for TPLOT loader program.

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

Package ID	Computer language
NEA-1070/01	FORTRAN-77

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13. OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED: IBM MVS/TSO.

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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS:

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

         Raoul Doron
         Structural Mechanics
         Joint Research Center
         Commission of the European Communities
         Ispra Establishment
         21020 Ispra (VA) Italy

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

NEA-1070/01

test-case data   mag tapeJCL procedures                             DATTP
source program   mag tapeTPLOT main source program                  SRCTP
source program   mag tapeTPLOT auxiliary routines source (2 files)  SRCTP
source program   mag tapeTPLT LOAD main source program              SRCTP
test-case output mag tapeCompilation and link benchmark output      OUTTP
user's guide             Implementation of TPLOT... (Oct. 10, 1988) WRKPT
report                   EUR-11610-EN (May 1988)                    REPPT

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17. CATEGORIES

I. Deformation and Stress Distributions, Structural Analysis and Engineering Design Studies
N. Subsidiary Calculations

Keywords: mechanical structures, plotting, transients.