These guidelines are intended to provide you with information on how to prepare a finite element model for inclusion in the FE model archive at the NCAC. By conforming to a standard set of conventions you will help to make this archive easy to use and save other researchers time and aggravation.
These guidelines shouldn't be hard to follow - we've tried to make them straightforward, and they should not really impose any significant additional work. Please feel free to make suggestions about how these guidelines could be improved.
- Submit your model to the NCAC as a standard Unix tar format. Compress the archive using the GNU zip utility. Please send email to <webmaster@ncac.gwu.edu> after you send the model so we can include it in the archive. We will send you an email confirming receipt of your model. Please contact us in advance if you are planning to transfer more than 100MB.
- If for some reason you need to send us a Unix tar by tape, please be advised that we have the following tape drive equipment at NCAC:
- 4mm 2GB DDS-1 DAT drive (60M or 90M-we cannot read 120M or 125M DDS-2 and -3 DAT tapes)
- ½″ DLT-4000 tape drive (20/40GB capacity)
- We suggest including the following files in your submission:
- A README file containing:
- The source and author of the model, including contact information
- A list explaining what is in each file you submitted
- Any important information, such as suitability of the model for particular impact scenarios, if the model is validated, the format of the input deck (LS-DYNA3D, DYNA3D), etc.
- Any appropriate disclaimers or references
- An LS-DYNA3D or DYNA3D input deck of your model in an impact scenario known to run to completion.
- Separate input decks for each of the main components of your model, at zero velocity. For instance, if you are submitting a vehicle model, and your sample case is that model impacting a pole, please include the vehicle by itself, and the pole by itself.
- A README file containing: