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To select a number of options relating to summary postprocessing.
Refer to Summary Postprocessing for further information on this feature.
Three lines specifying options in the following format:
WARNINGS=[Warnings Option]
DELETEDATA=[Delete Data Option]
PSEUDOCURVATURE=[Pseudo Curvature Option]
Warnings Option can be YES (the default) or NO. Delete Data Option can be YES or NO (the default). Pseudo Curvature Option can be EFF (denoting effective tension, the default) or AXI (denoting axial force).
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Description |
Pseudo Curvature: |
This option allows you to specify whether Effective Tension (the default) or Axial Force is to be used in the calculation of pseudo-curvature. |
Warnings: |
This option allows you to suppress warning messages (they are activated by default). |
Delete Database: |
This option allows you automatically delete results databases (they are retained by default). |
(a)The Pseudo Curvature option is immaterial if you do not specify pseudo-curvature as one of your summary output parameters.
(b)When Warnings are activated, Flexcom issues a warning in the summary output file if the maximum or minimum of a particular parameter is more than two standard deviations from the mean value. This facility is intended to alert users to the possibility that a maximum or minimum value is perhaps a numerical “spike” rather than a genuine extreme. To confirm whether or not this is the case, you would look at the time history of the response.
(c)The Delete Database option might be useful when a large number of analyses are being performed. The results database could automatically be used to generate the summary output file for each analysis and each database could then be deleted, freeing disk space for subsequent analyses.