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CAESAR II Users Guide

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A fixed format displacement file has the .disp extension and this format:

  1. The first line has only one the conversion factor value, which is used to divide the translational displacements (DX, DY, and DZ) to convert them to the internal unit of inches.

  2. The second line is either Y axis up or Z axis up to indicate the CAESAR II Coordinate System that the following displacement data corresponds to.

  3. All the remaining lines are displacement data lines:

    1. Each line must have 58 values: Node X, Y, Z and 54 displacements for the nodes (6 degrees of freedom times 9 vectors is 54).

    2. The first value is a node number.

    3. The following three values, the three coordinates of a node, are ignored.

    4. The final 54 values are displacements of the node, in the order: DX1, DY1, DZ1, RX1, RY1, RZ1... DX9, DY9, DZ9, RX9, RY9, RZ9.

    5. The first character space is reserved for the comment "*", each of the 58 values must be 12 characters long so the total length of a displacement data line should be 697 (1+58x12) characters long.

    6. The position of each of the 54 displacement values is used to determine its location in a CAESAR II model. For example, values at position 5, 8, 55 and 58 correspond to DX1, and RX1, DZ9, and RZ9 of the node in the model.

    7. A value must occupy a 12-character field. When a value has fewer than 12 characters, you must pad either to the left or right of the blanks to make it 12-characters in length. If there is no displacement value, a 12 character blank field must be reserved for it.

When creating the blank space use the Space Bar. Do not use the Tab key.