MTS Fatigue Template - Manual (Page 21)

3.2.0 Legacy Template Overview
3.2.1.0 Importing Legacy Data
Import Legacy Data provides support in MTS TestSuite for data archived from previous software products.
The currently supported versions include:
• Model 790.20—Low-Cycle Fatigue (LCF), High-Cycle Fatigue (HCF), and Advance Low-Cycle Fatigue
(ALC) version 4.2 or later
• Model 790.40—Fatigue Crack Growth (FCG) version 4.2 or later
• Model 790.50—Fracture Toughness with J-Integral Characterization of Fracture Toughness (JIC), Linear
Elastic Plane-Strain Fracture Toughness of Metallic Materials (KIC), and E1820 Crack-Tip Opening
Displacement (CTOD) version 4.2 or later
Specialized templates map the archived data to the current format and variables for analysis:
• Advance Low-Cycle Fatigue (ALC)
• E1820 Crack-Tip Opening Displacement (CTOD)
• Fatigue Crack Growth (FCG)
• High-Cycle Fatigue (HCF)
• J-Integral Characterization of Fracture Toughness (JIC)
• Linear Elastic Plane-Strain Fracture Toughness of Metallic Materials (KIC)
• Low-Cycle Fatigue (LCF)
Legacy files
Legacy files have a similar naming convention. File names are not case-sensitive: <name><data
type>.<extension>
Legacy File Names
Description Item
The user-supplied name. Name
Data Type Important:
You must select the RD file. Only the RD file is processed.
The data type is one of four following types created for an archive:
• BS—Batch-specimen data
• PR—Procedure data
• RD—Raw data
• TR—Test results
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3.0 Overview