Reading PEER/NGA accelerograms
Posted: 07 Apr 2013, 22:11
Hello,
A feature that would be extremely useful would be to have SeismoSpect (also SeismoSignal) read the header information in PEER/NGA accelerograms (.acc format, 4 line header, multiple acc values per line after that). The header information includes the number of points and the time step. This would save a huge amount of time when loading multiple records.
I am envisioning a 4th radio button in the Input File Parameters dialog which would be "PEER accelerogram". The first line, last line, and dt values would all be automatically read from the .acc file (no user input required).
This way, one could just select a list of files (with different dt values), and load them all at once. This should be a very simple feature to add, and would be a great help.
Also, in order to do this, after clicking on "Load Multiple", a dialog box should pop up asking the format - currently it does not seem possible to specify the format for multiple load. Here one could then select "PEER accelerogram".
Currently, to use PEER/NGA files, each file has to be individually loaded, and the dt value has to be read by the user and typed in for each file. This is tedious and makes input errors frequent.
Regards
A feature that would be extremely useful would be to have SeismoSpect (also SeismoSignal) read the header information in PEER/NGA accelerograms (.acc format, 4 line header, multiple acc values per line after that). The header information includes the number of points and the time step. This would save a huge amount of time when loading multiple records.
I am envisioning a 4th radio button in the Input File Parameters dialog which would be "PEER accelerogram". The first line, last line, and dt values would all be automatically read from the .acc file (no user input required).
This way, one could just select a list of files (with different dt values), and load them all at once. This should be a very simple feature to add, and would be a great help.
Also, in order to do this, after clicking on "Load Multiple", a dialog box should pop up asking the format - currently it does not seem possible to specify the format for multiple load. Here one could then select "PEER accelerogram".
Currently, to use PEER/NGA files, each file has to be individually loaded, and the dt value has to be read by the user and typed in for each file. This is tedious and makes input errors frequent.
Regards