II.2.5 Saving to or retrieving from a disk file

Presently, three interface functions are defined:

• “readEdf” is used to import the data stored in an ESAComp data file. The function has one argument: a String containing the name of the "edf" file.

  When a load is read from an ESAComp file, the reader should keep in mind that the numbering of plies follows different conventions in FeResPost and ESAComp. When a thermo-elastic loading is defined, the ESAComp “bottom” temperature corresponds to FeResPost “Tsup”, and the “top” temperature corresponds to “Tinf”. The same remark applies to hygro-elastic loading.

• “readNeutral” is used to import the data stored in a neutral data file. The function has one argument: a String containing the name of the “ndf” file.

• “writeNeutral” is used to export the data stored to a neutral data file. The function has one argument: a String containing the name of the “ndf” file.

Note that the neutral data files (“ndf” files) mentioned above are files with a format specific to FeResPost.