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Chapter IV.2
A few small examples

This Chapter presents very small examples of data files performing simple operations with the FE model and Results. This helps familiarize the reader to the use of FeResPost, and possibly to ruby also.

The examples are divided into four categories:

IV.2.1 Utilities Module
IV.2.2 Examples without Results
IV.2.2.1 Reading Bulk Data
IV.2.2.2 Reading FEM from HDF file
IV.2.2.3 Group examples
IV.2.2.4 Manipulating Group entities
IV.2.2.5 Adding Groups to a DataBase
IV.2.3 Examples with iterators
IV.2.4 Examples with Results
IV.2.4.1 Inspecting Results contained in a DataBase
IV.2.4.2 Calculations with Results
IV.2.4.3 Using predefined criteria
IV.2.4.4 Printing Results’ content
IV.2.4.5 Coordinate system transformations
IV.2.4.6 Manipulation of Complex Results
IV.2.4.7 Manipulation of XDB attachments
IV.2.5 A few useful tools
IV.2.5.1 Definition of acceleration fields
IV.2.5.2 Definition of temperature fields
IV.2.5.3 Calculation of a total force and moment
IV.2.5.4 Outputting a Gmsh file
IV.2.6 Saving and retrieving Results from an SQL database
IV.2.6.1 Saving objects in an SQLite database
IV.2.6.2 Retrieving objects from an SQLite database
IV.2.7 Reading optimization results
IV.2.8 “Raw” access to XDB file content
IV.2.8.1 Utilities
IV.2.8.2 Printing Coordinate System Table Matrix
IV.2.8.3 Accessing results
IV.2.8.4 Producing a “clean” model from topometric optimization
IV.2.8.5 Reading and saving the temperature distributions
IV.2.9 Reading Results From Nastran HDF file
IV.2.10 Raw reading of Nastran HDF file’s content
IV.2.11 Superelements
IV.2.11.1 Reading BDF file and accessing superelements
IV.2.11.2 Superelements and OP2 files
IV.2.11.3 Getting superelement Results from XDB files
IV.2.11.4 Reading superelement nodes from Result files
IV.2.11.5 Getting superelement Results from HDF files
IV.2.12 Other tests
IV.2.12.1 Reading RBE Results with Lagrange option
IV.2.12.2 Reading nonlinear analysis Results from HDF5 files
IV.2.12.3 Testing MPC Results
IV.2.13 CBEAM and CBAR intermediate stations
IV.2.14 Orthogonal tensor and rotations
IV.2.15 Reading Grid Point Forces on DMIG elements
IV.2.16 Manipulation of complex Grid Point Forces