High Temperature Composite Analyzer (HITCAN) Programmer's Manual. Version 1.0

Abstract

This manual describes the organization and flow of data and analysis modules in the computer code, HITCAN (High Temperature Composite ANalyzer). HITCAN is a general purpose computer program for predicting nonlinear global structural and local stress-strain response of arbitrarily oriented, multilayered high temperature metal matrix composite structures. This manual describes the architecture of the HITCAN code, followed by the listing of subroutines and calling tree, data storage scheme, file system, and a dictionary of code terminology. The primary intention of the manual is to familiarize the user with some of the computer program related issues so as to facilitate maintenance/modification/updates of the HITCAN computer code