VII.4.2 Worksheets

Several types of worksheets are defined in the workbook:

• Worksheets that contain the definition of databases and load cases. (More precisely, they contain the information needed to build databases and Results.) The characteristics of these worksheets are given in section VII.4.2.2.
• Worksheets that allow to select load cases, and associate parameters to each load case. Section VII.4.2.3 presents these worksheets.
• The “LcSelector” worksheet that automates several operations. Only one such worksheet can be defined in the workbook. It is presented in section VII.4.2.1.
• The post-processing worksheets that define the data and sequence of operations to perform post-processing calculations, and archive Results. More information about these worksheets is given in section VII.4.2.4
• One worksheet called “envelopeGMSH” and devoted to the manual production of GMSH envelope of Results.
• Several worksheets have been added to test the post-processing of Samcef results:
  • Worksheet “SamcefDefDbLc” defines a database and several load cases.
  • Worksheet “SamcefSel” defines the corresponding selection with associated parameters.
  • Worksheet “post_samcef” tests the post-processing of samcef results by extracting results and calculating a few margins of safety.

  Note that the finite element model and results corresponding to these samcef post-processing are not provided, so that you cannot work the samcef example.