.. _auto_curves_compute_elastic_recovery:

*SORT THE CURVES BASED ON THE TYPE AND ORDER *
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Computes elastic recovery metrics for a set of stress-strain or load-displacement curves and returns them sorted by a chosen metric (absolute difference or percentage difference) in ascending or descending order, optionally limited to the top N results. Use this worker to rank curves by their elastic recovery performance in a material characterization or manufacturing springback workflow.

When to use
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Classification: **process**.

Tagged: ``curve_sorting``, ``elastic_recovery``, ``material_characterization``, ``ranking``, ``springback``, ``stress_strain``.

Inputs
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   * - Label
     - ID
     - Type
     - Default
     - Required
     - Description
   * - Curves To Be Sorted
     - curvestobesorted
     - vector
     - —
     - 
     - Collection of curves (e.g. stress-strain or load-displacement) on which elastic recovery will be computed; accepts multiple curve objects — leave empty only if curves are supplied upstream in the workflow.
   * - Sort By
     - sort_by
     - string
     - asc
     - 
     - Metric used to rank the curves after elastic recovery is computed: 'diff' ranks by absolute difference between loading and unloading endpoints, 'diff_percentage' ranks by the relative (percentage) difference; defaults to 'asc' (treated as 'diff').
   * - Sort Order
     - sort_order
     - string
     - asc
     - 
     - Direction of the ranking: 'asc' returns curves from lowest to highest elastic recovery value, 'desc' returns highest to lowest; defaults to ascending order.
   * - Sort Limit
     - sort_limit
     - scalar
     - 5
     - 
     - Maximum number of curves to return after sorting; integer, defaults to 5 — increase if more ranked results are needed downstream.

Outputs
-------

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   * - Label
     - ID
     - Type
     - Description
   * - curves_compute_elastic_recovery_output_1
     - curves_compute_elastic_recovery_output_1
     - dataset
     - Dataset containing the top-N curves ranked by the selected elastic recovery metric, including computed diff or diff-percentage values as additional columns for each curve.

Disciplines
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- data.curve.pair
- engineering.manufacturing
- engineering.material.characterization

Runnable example
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A runnable example is registered for this worker. Open the example workflow on the d3VIEW canvas: `/api/workflow/example?id=curves_compute_elastic_recovery <https://www.d3view.com/api/workflow/example?id=curves_compute_elastic_recovery>`_

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