StepSizeRule.h

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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: 1.5 $
// $Date: 2003/10/27 23:45:44 $
// $Source: /usr/local/cvs/OpenSees/SRC/reliability/analysis/stepSize/StepSizeRule.h,v $


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

#ifndef StepSizeRule_h
#define StepSizeRule_h

#include <utility/matrix/Vector.h>

namespace XC {

class StepSizeRule
  {
  public:
    StepSizeRule(void);

    virtual int computeStepSize(Vector u, Vector grad_G, double G, Vector d, int stepNumber) =0;
    virtual double getStepSize(void) =0;
    virtual double getInitialStepSize(void) =0;
    virtual double getGFunValue(void) =0;
  };
} // end of XC namespace

#endif