Flexcom > Theory > Postprocessing > Advanced Topics

Overview

Flexcom provides a number of important capabilities for estimating extreme values of the structural response. The extreme values can be determined for any response variable at one or more elements. The estimates are based on standard procedures in the statistics of extreme values (Ochi, 1998), (Ang et al, 1984). The estimates depend on the statistical distribution of the individual (or local) maxima/minima in the timetrace of the structural response. Flexcom computes estimates of the extreme values based on Rayleigh or Weibull distributions of the individual maxima/minima in the timetrace. The following section provides a brief review the main Extreme Values Principles to familiarise the user with this type of statistical analysis, which is usually described in only specialist publications.

Relevant Keywords

•*STATISTICS is used to request the creation of statistics plots.

•*EXTREMA is used to specify the procedure and input parameters to be used in the computation of extreme values.