SAINT.Reference.Manual

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1.1 Introducing SAINT
SAINT, the PDMS Structural Analysis Interface module, forms the first stage of a data
transfer sequence for carrying out stress analysis of structural steelwork.
You use SAINT to create a set of instructions which specify all of the data which must
be extracted from the PDMS structural model for subsequent frame analysis by an
external (i.e. non-PDMS) stress analysis package such as GTSTRUDL or STAAD-III.
This instruction set, which is in the form of an ASCII file, is known as the control file.
You can then use the control file created by SAINT as input to an appropriate
translation program which is complementary to, but not part of, PDMS, which in turn
creates an input deck for the stress analysis package. This translation program, which
uses the PDMS Data Access Routines (DARs) to extract and convert the required PDMS
data, must be tailored to suit the needs of the specific stress analysis package to be used.
(See the PDMS Data Access Routines User Guide, or the guide for a specific stress
analysis interface if available, for further details.)