PragTic is a freeware tool for an automated fatigue damage calculation based on a FE-solution or done at an isolated point with no relation to FEA. More details of PragTic are available on its [website][a]. Here is the HPC version parallelized using MPI library.
## Modules
PragTic version 0.1 is available on Salomon via the PragTic module:
```sh
$ ml PragTic
```
The module sets up environment variables and loads some other modules, required for running PragTic simulations. This particular command loads the default module PragTic/0.1-GCC-5.3.0-2.25 and modules:
```console
GCCcore/5.3.0
binutils/2.25-GCCcore-5.3.0
GCC/5.3.0-2.25
MPICH/3.2-GCC-5.3.0-2.25.
```
## Running
Follow the next step to compute simulations sequentially:
| *DATABASE* | .fdb database specially prepared for PragTic |
| *ANSET* | analyse setup name |
| *SET_OF_POINTS* | set of points name |
| *LOAD_REGIME* | load regime name |
| *METHOD* | method name |
| *RESULT_FILE* | file where results will be saved |
## Results
After computation, the newly created result file *RESULT_FILE* in the current directory should contain results. More detailed result informations should be found in the *res.txt* file which is in every single randomly named folder created by PragTic in the current directory.
