The DAISY Code

Publisher Summary The chief advantages of the DAISY computer code are its flexibility and level of production automation. Capability exists for efficiently analyzing a wide range of structures that are constructed from a variety of general materials and subjected to arbitrary mechanical, thermal, or displacement loadings. Digital computer codes must be of very broad capability or in a form conducive to rapid alteration by the analyst. The high frequency with which projects are encountered requiring program modification has led us to place a high premium on program modularity. With characteristic DAISY clarity, all mass storage input/output is handled through four routines. There are two input routines, one for two-dimensional arrays and the other for one-dimensional arrays. Output routines are handled in a similar fashion. Thus the user may, with knowledge of only these four routines, easily alter external input/output processes without going through 250 subroutines scanning for READ and WRITE statements.