Available Programs

BEND
Language: Fortran 77
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
Input: Menu driven from the command line, with an option of some input from an external file.

BEND finds a minimal elastic strain energy configuration for a group of superconducting cables.

For documentation there is an outline of program execution as seen by the user, and a diagram of program structure.

The program is broken up into five modules with names of the form bn_m where m is the version number of the module and n distinguishes the module: For pseudocode documentation of these modules, click on the links MAIN, STEP1, STEP2, GROUPand UTILITIES.

Output files have names of the form 'name.extension' where 'name' is the user-chosen name for the current run and 'extension' depends on the kind of data contained in the file:
PART
Language: Fortran 77
Author: Jeff Brandt, brandt@fnal.gov
Input: Files output by BEND.
Output into Fermilab's CAD systems.



DELCOR
Language: Fortran 77
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
Input: The 'name.cor' file output by BEND.
The delta-l-over-l is computed for the four edges (formed by the four vertices of trapezoidal cross sections) of every cable in the group, by fitting a circle to three consecutive vertices along each edge.


CORNIN
Language: Fortran 77
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
Input: The 'name.cor' file output by BEND.
This complete program is meant to be embedded as a subroutine in larger programs constructed by users who need the corner coordinates for reasons of their own. For example it is embedded in program BENDRX which then outputs a file formatted for input into ROXIE. And Mike Helm of LBNL has embedded it in a program which then outputs a file formatted for input into OPERA and ANSYS and the LBL CAD system.


CENTIN
Language: Fortran 77
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
Input: The 'name.cen' file output by BEND.
This complete program is meant to be embedded as a subroutine in larger programs constructed by users who need the current centroid coordinates for for computation of fields and Lorentz forces.


AVOID
Language: Fortran 77
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
Input: A ruled surface to be varied by the user until its rulings do not intersect a fixed strip contained in a second ruled surface.


BEND2D
Language: Fortran 77
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
Input: From the screen.
A simple two-dimensional version of BEND for use on the ALS.


PK2B
Language: Fortran 77
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
Input: LBNL format.
Output: Reformatted for input into BEND.


REBEND
Language: Fortran 77
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
Input: The 'name.cor' file output by BEND.
Cable groups constrained to lie on the surface of a cylinder are deformed so as to lie on a conical surface.


BTWIST
Language: Fortran 77
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
Input: The 'name.cor' file output by BEND.
Models a helical wiggler.


Graphical Subroutines
Language: Microsoft Fortran Powerstation
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
PLOTGS, GRAPH12S and GRAPH22s plot curves and strips with rulings in the plane and in space. Because these subroutines use the graphics package coming with the MS Powerstation compiler, they run only under DOS and Windows 3.1.


STEP1I.java
Language: Java 1.1
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
A Java applet version of subroutine STEP1I in BEND. It models an Euler elastica constrained to lie on the surface of a cylinder. At present this version allows for only interactive solution of the two-point boundary problem. (In the subroutine this solution is automated.)


GSMP
Language: PL/I
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
A general system modeling program.


VERIFY
Language: Fortran 77
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
Input: The 'name.stp', 'name.fre', 'name.shf', 'name.ins' and 'name.ous'. Checks output from BEND before sending it to the CAD system.


LEAD
Language: Fortran 77
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
Input: Menu driven from the command line.
Constructs a single cable which smoothly interpolates between any two given endpoints while passing through any number of given intermediate points.


ELKRod
Language: Fortran 90
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
Input: The six parameters representing the forces on one end of an Euler-Kirchhoff rod in three-dimensional space with three arbitrary rigidities.
Output: The six parameters representing the position and orientation of the other end of the rod.
The configuration of the rod is obtained by solution of the Euler-Lagrange equations for the elastic energy minimization variational problem. The two-point boundary condition is solved by the Method of Shooting combined with a conjugate-gradient minimization to home the terminal end of the rod in on the terminal boundary conditions.


EKRod

Language: Fortran 90
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
The minimal-energy configuration of an Euler-Kirchoff rod with circular cross section, in the presence of external forces, is found by direct minimization. Two versions are available depending on whether the Nelder-Mead or Powell algorithms are used to effect the minimization.


ROXIE
Language: Fortran 90
Author: Stephan Russenschuck, Stephan.Russenschuck@cern.ch
A program package developed for the design and optimization of coil geometries in two and three dimensions. See, for example, Russenschuck's invited paper, A Computer Program for the Design of Superconducting Accelerator Magnets, for the 11th ACES Meeting, Monterey, CA, March 95.



BENDRX

Language: Fortran 77
Author: Joe Cook, jmcjmc@fnal.gov
Interfaces with ROXIE. Used primarily by Gianluca Sabbi, Sabbi@fnal.gov.



"About the Deformation of an Inner Cable on the Hard Way Bending Plane"
Language: MathCad
Author: Giampaolo Ferrari, giamy@luna.it
Analyzes an experimental determination of the rigidity of a Rutherford cable.



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