Appendix B: Format of Time Series File

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DT NSTEP

For each time time series:

 IEL IEND ARCLEN

\(\begin{array}{lllll}\mathrm {Tension_1}&&\mathrm {Y{-c}urvature_1}&&\mathrm {Z{-c}urvature_1}\\\mathrm {Tension_2}&&\mathrm {Y{-c}urvature_2}&&\mathrm {Z{-c}urvature_2}\\...\\...\\\mathrm {Tension_j}&&\mathrm {Y{-c}urvature_j}&&\mathrm {Z{-c}urvature_j}\\...\\...\\\mathrm {Tension_{NTS}}&&\mathrm {Y{-c}urvature_{NTS}}&&\mathrm {Z{-c}urvature_{NTS}}\end{array}\)

Example:

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|     1.00000           6168                                               |
|           1              1        0.00000                                |
| 0.00000E+00    0.00000E+00    0.13548E-06                                |
| 0.00000E+00    0.00000E+00    0.11859E-06                                |
| 0.00000E+00    0.00000E+00    0.91428E-07                                |
| 0.00000E+00    0.00000E+00    0.55781E-07                                |
| 0.00000E+00    0.00000E+00    0.14255E-07                                |
| 0.00000E+00    0.00000E+00   -0.29846E-07                                |
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