1. General Information
The purpose of the INPMOD
module is to administer
reading/interpretation of system and environmental data. The following
data groups are included:
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General Control Data - Data Group A
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Single Riser Data - Data Group B
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Component Data - Data Group C
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Environmental Data - Data Group D
-
Support Vessel Data - Data Group E
An INPMOD
run may consist of a combination of the data groups, but a
data group included must be complete. Data group A is mandatory, while
data groups B-E normally will be given. All data groups except data
group A can be given more than once. Note that running INPMOD
always
overwrites old information in the INPFIL
. That means that all needed
data on INPFIL
must be generated in one INPMOD
run.
Within each group, the first two data groups (identification and control
data) must be given first, while the order of the remaining data groups,
to some extent, is arbitrary. Data groups in one section cannot be mixed
with data groups in another section. This means that when the program
finds a data group identifier it will only check the data within the
current section. If one or more errors are found, an error message is
written and an error flag is written to the INPFIL
file. A run with
STAMOD
or DYNMOD
using this file will then be terminated. INPMOD
will continue to read data until the END
input line is found (see
Termination of input data) regardless of the number of errors detected.