Investigators all whoever are engaged in a finite element analysis for a structure know that exchanging messages with a computer in the process of a finite element analysis is a main work. It is terrible that necessary input data and output data may be very many. Total cost spent in the process of carrying out a finite element analysis using a computer is approximately distributed such [1] that 50%, 35%-40% and 10%-15% in it may be used to prepare and check input data, to explain calculation results and to run in a computer, respectivdy. These percentages, of course, may vary with a concret problem and a computer. It is worth noted that a majority of theoretical investigators work for trying to find a good finite element, a
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