Job Control

The interface program has been designed to produce complete DYNA3D input file for the more common model and analysis types. There are a large number of optional 'switches' in DYNA3D which the interface sets to (hopefully) sensible values and which the user can then change manually in the input file if desired.

The input file is annotated with labels and column markers to aid editing. The following extract from an input file generated by the interface illustrates this.

*
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* TITLE AND CONTROL CARDS...                *
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*
FEMGEN MODEL PLAT   TRANSLATED BY PRE-DYNA 1.000 No model title         88 large
*
* CONTROL CARD 2
*
*MATS     NODES    BRICKS     BEAMS    SHELLS TH-SHELLS    INTERS   DELTA-T  SHT
*   #         #         #         #         #         #         #         #    #
    1        36         0         0        25         0         00.0000E+00 0.00
*
* CONTROL CARD 3
*
*NODE SOLD BEAM SHEL TSHL RPRT PRNT PRNT SAND
*HBLK HBLK HBLK HBLK HBLK STEP FLAG FLAG FLAG
*   #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #
    2    0    0    0    0  100    0    0    0
*
* CONTROL CARD 4
*
*   #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #         #    #    #    #
                              E20.9
*
* CONTROL CARD 5
*
* NLC  NCL  NPR NVEL NWAL NCON IVEL  NSI   AX   AY   AZ   VX   VY   VZ  NMD  NDP
*   #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #
    1    0    0    6    0    0    0    0    0    0    0
*
* CONTROL CARD 6
*
*TERMINATE HISTORY-T   STATE-T REST  RUN STEP-TIME STF-SCALE TEMP  IRQ      SCFT
*        #         #         #    #    #         #         #    #    #         #
0.1000E+000.5000E-040.5000E-02  930  4650.2149E-040.1000E+00    0    00.9000E+00
*
* CONTROL CARD 7
*
* RBJ  RBN SH-S  T-B T-NS   LC LUMP RBIN SH-S  H-L SH-T SH-F NRBS
*   #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #    #
                                  0         1              1
*
* CONTROL CARD 8
*
* SPC  COR    R-FACT  NSB BMAX  NSS SMAX ITER  CONVERGE   D-RELAX      SCFT SIZE
*   #    #         #    #    #    #    #    #         #         #         #    #
    0    0
*
* CONTROL CARD 9 (UNUSED)
*