SearchDirection.h

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**          Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center            **
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** Reliability module developed by:                                   **
**   Terje Haukaas (haukaas@ce.berkeley.edu)                          **
**   Armen Der Kiureghian (adk@ce.berkeley.edu)                       **
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// $Revision: 1.3 $
// $Date: 2003/03/04 00:39:06 $
// $Source: /usr/local/cvs/OpenSees/SRC/reliability/analysis/direction/SearchDirection.h,v $


//
// Written by Terje Haukaas (haukaas@ce.berkeley.edu) 
//

#ifndef SearchDirection_h
#define SearchDirection_h

#include <utility/matrix/Vector.h>

namespace XC {

// 
class SearchDirection
  {
  public:
    SearchDirection();

    virtual int computeSearchDirection( 
            int stepNumber,
            Vector passed_u, 
            double passed_gFunctionValue, 
            Vector passedGradientInStandardNormalSpace) =0;
    virtual Vector getSearchDirection() =0;
};
} // end of XC namespace

#endif