Four singleton methods allow enabling or disabling partially or totally the reading of composite layered Results from finite element result files. These methods influence the behavior of methods defined in the “specialized” versions of the “DataBase” class. (See Part III.) The four methods are:
“enableLayeredResultsReading” enables the reading of layered laminate Results (stresses, strains, failure indices...). This method has no argument. In practice, this method is used to re-enable the reading of layered laminate Results as this reading is enabled by default.
“disableLayeredResultsReading” disables the reading of layered laminate Results (inverse of the previous method). Again, the method has no argument.
“enableSubLayersReading” enables some sub-layers for the reading of composite layered Results from result files. The method has one argument: a String or an Array of Strings chosen among “Bottom”, “Mid” and “Top”. Here, since by default all the sub-layers are enabled, the method is rather a “re-enabling” method.
“disableSubLayersReading” disables some sub-layers for the reading of composite layered Results from result files. The method has one argument: a String or an Array of Strings chosen among “Bottom”, “Mid” and “Top”.
By default the reading of layered composite Results is enabled for all sub-layers. The disabling may help to reduce the size of Results stored in specialized DataBases. In fact, the reading of composite results is no longer mandatory as most composite results can be produced with the appropriate methods of the “CLA” classes (Part II).