Is there a way to read LSDyna keyword files (.k) directly in vtk?

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I am a beginner in computer graphics and vtk. I have a directory with .k files containing mesh data which I want to visualize using vtk.

I have particularly following doubts:

Can .k files be read using vtk ? If yes, how? If no, what should be the workaround ?

I came to know about vtkLSDynaReader class but didn’t get any examples to move forward. I set the database directory by doing

vtkLSDynaReader* reader = vtkLSDynaReader::New();
reader->SetDatabaseDirectory(dir);
reader->Update();

Upon running the application I get the error :

vtkCompositeDataPipeline (00000000003696B0): Algorithm vtkLSDynaReader(0000000000366BB0) returned failure for request: vtkInformation (000000000036DD10)
  Debug: Off
  Modified Time: 108
  Reference Count: 1
  Registered Events: (none)
  Request: REQUEST_DATA
  ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
  FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0
  FROM_OUTPUT_PORT: 0