NAME

MTS MPT Elastomer Dynamic Characterization


SYNOPSIS

perl gus_mpt_dynamic.pl


DESCRIPTION

Reads in one or more MTS-default specimen.dat files. From amongst any other formats therein, the script will seek out only dynamic characterization records. From these it will then extract only user-selected columns.


README

For simplicity's sake, put all of your MPT data in the default specimen.dat file. Then use my Perl/Tk scripts to extract what you need from them. When tests are done, fire up this Perl/Tk GUI script. Browse to whichever input files you want to munge. More than one may be munged at a time. For an input file from path C:\foo\bar\anything.dat output will be written to C:\foo\bar\anything_dynamic_YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS.dat'. Use pull-down menus to configure how many files to munge, which columns to extract, etc.


PREREQUISITES

This script requires the Tk a graphical user interface toolkit module for Perl.


SEE ALSO

Stand-alone *.exe version
If you absolutely, positively can't get Perl on your PC, then drop me a email. I'll run it through PAR on Win2K and reply with the *.exe attached. The script is free but burning stand-alone *.exe's for Win32 is a service. My own time I value quite the same as you. Thus will I expect a half-hour's pay (at your own rate, whatever it be) to appear in my mailbox a week or so later.

gus_mpt_static_def_char.pl
For extracting and ex-post-facto re-calculating static stiffness data embeded in specimen.dat files by the Static Deflection process in the Elastomer module of MultiPurpose TestWare by MTS. No matter that said file may also contain other data of unlike format there embeded by other MPT processes (such as Dynamic Characterization, etc.).

gus_crpc_fmc_klt.pl
A Perl/Tk GUI for extrating MTS cRPC iteration data according to Ford Motor Company's own Key Life Test formating requirements.

Others will follow...
This is fun! I intend to write further Perl/Tk GUI scripts for various sorts of data embeded by MPT within its default specimen.dat ASCII file format. If you have a specific need which I've yet to addres, feel free to write. Include an example of the specimen.dat file and how you'd like to see it munged.


AUTHOR

Gan Uesli Starling <gan@starling.us>


COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2004, Gan Uesli Starling. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.


SCRIPT CATEGORIES

MTS MultiPurpose TestWare