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Simple Example

Here is a simple example of running racron. The program reads ASCII data from the file specified on the command line, or from standard input if no file or - is specified. The data is numbers separated by whitespace. An example `datafile' would be:

0       0.5665   0.30 
0.012  -0.23     0.5623

Suppose that the above values represent an external force at a 0.1 seconds time-step, acting on a linear SDOF system with a 0.6 seconds natural period and 0.32 kg mass. To calculate its response with the default integration method, you could do:

racron datafile -i 0.1 -p 0.6 -m 0.32

The result you would get with the above command is:

    TIME,            RD,            RV
    ----,            --,            --
  0.0000,  0.000000e+00,  0.000000e+00
  0.1000, -1.072402e+00, -2.144803e+01
  0.2000, -3.914776e+00, -3.539947e+01
  0.3000, -5.581327e+00,  2.068456e+00
  0.4000, -2.645944e+00,  5.663920e+01
  0.5000,  2.218572e+00,  4.065113e+01
  0.6000,  3.353678e+00, -1.794902e+01
  0.7000,  5.479004e-01, -3.816654e+01
  0.8000, -2.631062e+00, -2.541272e+01
  0.9000, -3.479361e+00,  8.446758e+00
  1.0000, -1.354081e+00,  3.405883e+01
  1.1000,  1.849025e+00,  3.000329e+01
  1.2000,  3.382874e+00,  6.736932e-01
  1.3000,  2.002672e+00, -2.827773e+01
  1.4000, -1.028647e+00, -3.234866e+01
  1.5000, -3.090919e+00, -8.896767e+00
  1.6000, -2.469261e+00,  2.132993e+01


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