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Al Conle
> > Proposal: Create an F.D.& E. Public Software (Task Force? Repository?) > (Acronym: FDE_PS ? ) > > Objective: To create and test new fatigue analysis software and to make it > available to anyone who wishes to try it, or improve it. > > Step 1 : > > Create or elicit from members initial "seed" software. > > Place these routines on a FD&E website, along with source code and > GNU general public license (See below) > > Allow members (and anyone else) to test & modify & re-post, if they > wish, the routines with source code. > > Step 2 : > > When several variants of some software type have been created, > test, analyse, and evaluate for F.D.& E. re-posting, the best > variations, or recommend & sponsor further work to merge two or > more concepts into one routine. > > Step 3 : > Go out and have a beer. > > > > Initial Seed Software Requests: > > Note: all source files must be compilable, and presumably executable, > on a typical Linux operating system computer. > Also Note: Typical Linux setups include an Apache Web Server. The sites > are presently considered more secure than NT and many Unix > machines. > > We have: > * RPC (MTS Corp. trademark) file binary to ascii conversion > routine: > rpc2ascii.f.txt > * RPC single channel extraction routine: rpc_getch.f.txt > * RPC channel max/min extraction routine: rpc_hilo.f.txt > * Standard FD&E Rainflow data file display routine > * A sample program for converting a typical company data > format into an SAE Fatigue standard data file. > x2sae.f.txt (Adapt it to convert your own) > * An SAE standard file format for transfer of stress-strain > hysteresis loops ( > proposal ). > > We need: > 1. Standard FD&E fatigue data file analysis routine for the > calculation of the "strain-life" fatigue parameters. > 2. Standard FD&E fatigue data file graphic display routine. > 3. Standard FD&E Rainflow data file analysis routine. > 4. Standard file format for "cyclic" stress-strain curves. > 5. Conversion of Fatigue Parameters to a "digital" strain-life > curve and a stress-strain curve. > 6. Fatigue crack propagation analysis routine. > 7. Routine to convert a Nominal or FEA elastic history to a local > stress-strain history (uniaxial version). Some call it Neuber. > 8. A multiaxial stress-strain cyclic deformation model to convert > a rosette strain history to a multiaxial stress-strain history. > 9. RPC time history display routine > 10. Simple ascii file time-based point graphic display routine. > 11. Fatigue history editing software. > 12. A RT (Real-Time) Linux servo hydraulic test control routine. > (and a standard format for storing stress-strain loops). > 13. A database for raw strain life fatigue data, with I/O links > to standard FD&E file formats. > 14. A sample conversion routine to translate fatigue data from a > typical spread sheet to a standard SAE fatigue data file. > 15. An FTP site for submission and distribution of SAE standard > fatigue data sets. Could also be a site of "links" to such > data, thereby leaving the data in the hands of the original > contributor (and making less work for the rest of us :-) > 16. Routines to calculate spot weld fatigue, post FEA. > 17. Routines to calculate fusion weld fatigue, post FEA. > 18. A standard format to describe proving ground test surfaces. > > Other Suggestions:__________________________________________ > ____________________________________________________________ > ____________________________________________________________ > > > Distribution Synopsis: > > Software should be made available to anyone who requests it under the > conditions of the GNU General Public License, sometimes called GPL or > "Copyleft". The license was developed by the Free Software Foundation. > By "free" it refers to freedom, not just cost. > > * Original authors are allowed to retain the software's copyright > * Anyone can take the software and modify it or even base other > programs on it. > * Others are allowed to redistribute or resell the software, or > modified versions of the software. The software can even be resold > for profit, but in redistributing or reselling the software, however, > you cannot restrict any of these rights from the party you are selling > it to. > Note: when one redistributes or sells the software, one must also provide, > at no cost, the full source code so that others can modify the > software and resell it if they so desire. One cannot hold back the > source of one's modifications. > >For more and exact information on the License system check: > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html > >and more about the Gnu project itself see: http://www.gnu.org