POST JOB

POST : keyword.

Example

JOB POST

A.5 FILES Command

To define the prefix name for the backing files created in this run. Optional.

Parameters

FILES : keyword.

fname : prefix name for any backing files created by this run. (Alphanumeric, 4 characters, first character must be alphabetic)

Note

fname is used as a prefix for all files created during the current run. The four characters are appended with two digits in the range 12 to 35 to create each individual file.

Example

FILES BILL

A.6 TITLE Command

To define a title for this run. Recommended.

POST JOB

fname FILES

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Parameters

TITLE : keyword

title : this line of text will be printed out at the top of each page of ASAS output. (Alphanumeric, up to 74 characters)

Example

TITLE THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A TITLE LINE

A.7 TEXT Command

To define a line of text to be printed once only at the beginning of the output. Several TEXT lines may be defined to give a fuller description of the current analysis on the printed output.

Parameters

TEXT : keyword

text : this line of text will be printed once, at the beginning of the output. (Alphanumeric, up to 75 characters)

Example

TEXT THIS EXAMPLE OF THE TEXT TEXT COMMAND IS SPREAD

TEXT OVER THREE LINES

A.8 STRUCTURE Command

To define the name of an existing structure within the current project that is to be processed in this run.

title TITLE

TEXT text

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Parameters

STRUCTURE : keyword

sname : structure name identifying which existing structure is to be accessed from the project defined on the PROJECT command. (Alphanumeric, 4 characters, the first character must be alphabetic)

Note

For harmonic combinations the loadcase information to be processed may be drawn from more than one structure and this is achieved by respecifying a STRUCTURE command within the COMBination data (see Section 2.11.3). The structure defined in the preliminary data is adopted until a new STRUCTURE command is supplied.

For harmonic re-run, the structure name should identify the files that contain the combined loadcase information.

See also A.9 COMPONENT command.

Example

STRUCTURE SHIP

A.9 COMPONENT Command

For substructure analyses, this command defines the recovered component being processed in the current run.

Parameters

COMPONENT : keyword

sname : structure name as defined on the previous STRUCTURE command. (Alphanumeric, 4 characters, the first character must be alphabetic)

tree : this is the path down the component tree from the given structure in sname to the component which is being used for POST post-processing.

STRUCTURE sname

COMPONENT sname tree

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Notes

(i) If the user is processing the global structure run in a substructure analysis, use only the STRUCTURE command (A.8).

(ii) For harmonic combinations the loadcase information to be processed may be drawn from more than one structure and this is achieved by respecifying a COMPONENT command within the COMBination data (see Section 2.11.3). The structure defined in the preliminary data is adopted until a new COMPONENT command is supplied.

Example

To process the second level component, CMP2, which is part of assembled component CMP1, which is part of structure STRU.

COMPONENT STRU CMP1 CMP2

A.10 NEWSTRUCTURE Command

This command is only needed for HARM data type and is used to identify the results being created. However, in this case the new structure name will not be permanently saved in the project file if no SAVE or RESU command is specified. In this case, the same new structure name may be used repeatedly within one project.

Parameters

NEWSTRUCTURE : keyword

nsname : new structure name. This must be unique within the current project (but see note above). (Alphanumeric, 4 characters, the first character must be alphabetic)

Example

NEWSTRUCTURE NSTR Notes

NEWSTRUCTURE command is not needed in a harmonic re-run where the loadcase combination data are omitted.

A.11 OPTIONS Command

To define the control options for this run. Optional.

NEWSTRUCTURE nsname

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Parameters

OPTIONS : keyword

option : 4 character option name, or list of option names. See table below for details of the options available

Note

The following options are available in POST:

Option Name Application

DATA Stop after checking the data and do not process the stresses.

GOON Proceed even after printed WARNINGS. This option allows the program to continue despite doubtful data. It should be used after a run in which the WARNINGS have been noted and rejected.

NOBL Do not print the POST title page.

CCGO Proceed with stress averaging even after thickness and/or offset discontinuities are encountered within an element group, see Section 1.4.

GLST Print shell element stresses to FEMVIEW file in global stress format. This allows the FEMVIEW stress calculation facilities to be used.

Note: This does not convert the FEMVIEW stresses into the global system and so vector plots may be misleading.

UPLT Write any unity stress values computed in the current run to the plot file. Unity stress values are computed when check stress values are defined, see Section 2.10.

OAIS The material axis definition for anisotropic shells changed with the issue of POST version H11.3. This option allows the user to continue to employ the old material axis definition if needed. It is required if and only if the structural analysis was undertaken using a version of ASAS prior to H11.3, or the complementary OAIS option has been used in the ASAS run.

Example

OPTIONS DATA GOON END

OPTIONS option

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A.12 SAVE Command

To define the plot file which is to be saved for subsequent display by the relevant plotting program, or to save the intermediate file

Parameters

SAVE : keyword

FEMS : keyword to save the FEMVIEW plot file

prog : mnemonic to define the plotting program name. Valid names are:

PATN - PATRAN nodal results file, binary PTNC - PATRAN nodal results file, formatted (FILES) : keyword

CREATE : keyword to signify model data is to be included (default) APPEND : keyword to signify no model data to be included model : model name to be used by FEMVIEW

FILE : keyword to indicate filename follows filename : name of FEMVIEW file to be created

INTE : keyword to save the intermediate file and append data to it if necessary NEWP : keyword to save the intermediate file and overwrite existing file if necessary Notes

1. The plot files are mutually exclusive and only one may be specified within any POST analysis.

2. CREATE/APPEND and following data is only valid for prog = FEMS SAVE prog (FILES)