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JStorm

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Location of RCE user constitutive files
« on: May 04, 2020, 10:06:19 PM »
I am wondering that the RCE interfaces rvemat, srvemat and trvemat are located at ./elements/.... . Shouldn't they be moved to ./user/?

Prof. S. Govindjee

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Re: Location of RCE user constitutive files
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2020, 04:41:39 PM »
These are actually not user routines.  They are dummy files to facilitate compiling the hooks in the main code to fe2FEAP.

JStorm

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Re: Location of RCE user constitutive files
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2020, 08:54:35 PM »
Thank you Prof. Govindjee. I was confused by the comments "User Constitutive Model for ..."  :P

Prof. R.L. Taylor

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Re: Location of RCE user constitutive files
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2020, 09:56:07 AM »
Thank you for your careful reading, I will correct the comment.  The FE2 module was originally developed as a set of user subroutines and when incorporated into the program as a standard feature the comment was not changed.   I am sure there are other changes not mad too (like some of the routines starting with "u" which is what we usually use to denote a user module.