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Projects, reports and output data

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Three files leave a module: the project file that restores your session, the HTML report, and the output workbook that carries the numbers and can feed the design modules.

Project file (.mat)

File → Save writes every input, the fitted material law, the imported experimental curves and the active unit system into one .mat file. File → Open restores all of it, including the unit switch. The window title shows the project name. Projects are specific to the module that wrote them: an ASTM C1609 project opens in the ASTM C1609 module.

Engineering report (.html)

Export Report writes a single HTML file that opens in any browser and prints to PDF from there. It contains:

  • Performance Summary. Peak load, deflection at peak, and in the notched-beam module both the peak crack-tip opening (CTOD) and the peak crack-mouth opening (CMOD), plus the first-crack values.
  • Geometry and Loading. Span, section, loading type, plastic length and units.
  • Experimental Data. The imported curve and the fit statistics when a curve is loaded.
  • Final Stress-Strain Coordinates. The tension and compression laws as tables.
  • Key Limit States. First crack, compression yield and the other limit states with moment, curvature, load and deflection.
  • Figures. Every result tab as an embedded image.

Version note. In the notched-beam module, reporting the two crack-opening coordinates separately, CTOD and CMOD, belongs to the EN 14651 change listed under Unreleased in the release notes. Builds using the earlier workflow may not include both coordinates.

Output workbook (.xlsx)

Download Output Data writes an Excel workbook with one sheet per curve and an Input_Parameters sheet that lists every input as a two-column key and value table. The sheets per module are listed under File formats.

The Input_Parameters sheet is the material exchange format of HRC Designer. A workbook written by an inverse-analysis module is read back by File → Import Material in the Hybrid, FRP and Cross-Sectional modules, which take the tension and compression laws from it and leave the geometry alone.

flowchart LR
  A[Flexural test<br/>load-deflection or load-CMOD] --> B[Inverse-analysis module<br/>Auto-Fit]
  B --> C[Download Output Data<br/>Input_Parameters sheet]
  C --> D[Hybrid beam / FRP /<br/>Cross-Sectional module<br/>Import Material]
  D --> E[Moment-curvature, limit states,<br/>load-deflection, P-M diagram]
Material exchange. The workbook written by an inverse-analysis module carries the fitted laws into the design modules.

Where files are written

Every save and export opens a standard Windows file dialog. The dialog remembers the last folder used for each purpose (projects, test data, reports, workbooks) separately.