DIN FB102-2009, DIN FB103-2009, DIN FB104-2009: correction of value GAMU to 1.5 for action GR and its categories (load groups) (215784)
Design code NF EN199x-200x-BRIDGE: correction of the action G_1 (214380)
Correction of a design code reference for calculating of crack widths
Adding the material description to the reinforcement sketch (207520)
NSTR CHK Limits are now included in the total utilisation factor. (214263)
Standard stress points had sometimes no unique ID. (214160)
Cross section values were not updated, so the displayed longitudinal reinforcement of beams was wrong, if GRAPHIC was not restarted after a AQUA run. (215404)
For polygons with fillets over tangential points, the determination of the sense of rotation was sometimes incorrect. (212928)
Sometimes an endless run could be occurred during sorting the thinwalled elements. (213521)
Sometimes the plastic secondary torsional moment Mt2,pl was not calculated or calculated incorrectly.
Quad Inplane stiffness: at edges with smeared springs or couplings the internal rotation springs are now only added directly at the edge (and no longer to the inside of the quad). (213683)
Quad Inplane stiffness is now also no longer applied on eccentric quads with nonlinear material NMAT YES. (212330)
Punching: in case of missing ELLA nodal results the punching force was calculated too high at wall ends - corrected. (212687)
Sorting new design results in existing data in case of a groupwise design corrected. (212879)
Quad tendons: in the shear design, the section height was reduced too much due to tendon ducts - corrected. (213355)
CSM OPTI improved for EQUU targets in the staged optimization.
No boundary results were displayed if the first node of boundary was switched off. (213207)
GRA output: Resetting the results direction to the default setting was not saved. (213294)
National Annex Netherland NEN EN 1992-2: correction of the value alpha-cc=1.0 (211980)
National Annexes France NF EN: correction year of the relevant National Annex (212347)
Very small non effective areas, defined by thickness (WIDT), were used too large. (212226)
Pile elements with anisotropic circular bedding (BBLA ... P0 P1 P2 P3) corrected. (211333)
Punching at openings according EN 1992-1-1 figure 6.14: on thick slabs the distance 6d is reduced, as it is also used as a boundary distance. This reduction will now be a bit smaller. (210753)
Layerdesign: Iteration behavior improved in the crack design. (210433)
Punching: in case a structural line passes the punching node very close (2.5 cm distance), the perimeter might not be calculated exact in rare situations - corrected. (211733)
CSM design of construction stages: MAXIMA superpositions of a previous DESI run are now deleted in advance. In AQB only the active groups of this construction stage are designed. (209983)
CSM Optimization: Target spring moment MT activated (was not accepted).
Results corrected when Design Element is defined on an axis starting at a station offset (DGEO AXIS ... SA). (211905)
Force integration from volume elements is now corrected when the Design Element's coordinate system is different from the global. (211682)
To avoid licensing problems, it is now required to specify for a hydration analysis either CTRL TEFF or a corresponding HMAT JONA,HSCM or WESC must be specified in HYDRA.
In the punching design, an incorrect unit was used for the "shear reinforcement within the perimeter". (210628)
More accurate representation of the polygons of the separated section parts. (210014)
Export record SV: The option 'C' to put the coordinates of the shear centre in the elastic centre was not exported. (210304)
Incremental launching: correction launching bed in case no spring was active in the PLC. (208619)
Quad bedding: using a quad settlement load with a primary loadcase corrected (208963)
BRIC LADE nonlinear concrete model: crack behavior improved.
Shear design SIA 162 Switzerland: correction in the analysis of strain epsv according 4.3.3.2.2. (209266)
Shear design NBN Belgium: input CTRL COTT was not taken into account - corrected. (209402)
Cross-sections that are automatically interpolated by DECREATOR are now categorized inside the folder "Interpolated Cross-Sections" of SSD tasks. (208582)
Influence lines for warping torsion corrected. (210125)
SIR: Sometimes BRIC results were wrong calculated.
Beams were sometimes not placed correctly along a structural line. (208998)
Wrong results were calculated during 'comparison' (subtraction) of tensors (e.g. main stresses) with opposite directions. (208500)
The list of load cases was formatted incorrectly in the list representation. (208846)
GRA output: Switching off the inner edge was not saved. (209628)
GRA input: Reading in beam stresses from reinforcement or tendon materials, which were used in AQUA like normal materials, did not work. (209928)
GRA input: The setting of the colour for common support symbols (COL2 C5) had no effect on the default setting for the special support symbols (COL2 C21...C24). (210196)
A crash could occur during opening dialogue "Drawing Setup".
A crash could occur during opening "point properties" in dialogue "result settings".
Add chapter title "Characteristic Forces" in Report Browser for ECHO LOAD FULL
Fixing a problem when generating creep load cases in the task column design (205484)
Fixed crash due to imperfections given in y-direction only (206662)
Add a warning that a variable cross-section is not supported
Task Superpositioning for Combination Rules: Default superposition values available again without saving the combination rules
For the "Boundary Element Method" with "STYP BEM 1", the torsional resistance Wt and the shear resistances WVy and WVz of the cross section were sometimes not stored. The shear resistances were missing at the end of a shear cut. (206260)
The averaged material values of layered materials (FLAY) were wrong if various thickness of the layers was used. (206091)
Timber slabs FLAY corrected for excentric layers.
Control CTRL FGXZ did not function any longer - corrected.
Input Q8x8 extended for the full 8*8 quad matrix including excentric stiffness. (206091)
Composite sections did not react on an input CTRL STII 0.6 - corrected. (207145)
Excentric t-beam TBEX: storage of support forces corrected.
Behavior improved for weak AQUA beam shear stiffness. (207637)
STEP time step analysis: default STEP DIV set to 0.
BEMESS special limitation of the crack distance to 2*h removed - EN-1992-1-1 (7.14).
Analysis of k2 corrected with concrete strains (7.13) (206296)
Punching Sweden: check vrd,max at u1 removed, check now only at the column face according 6.4.3 (206190)
Punching after MAXIMA with ELLA: ULS force extracted from shear force perimeter cut.
CSM design Norway: use of CTRL MAX PAR2 1 improved to create the nonfrequent combinations. (205885)
Changes of the sign of the influence loadings of the residual loadings could hamper the evaluation and transfer to COPY SOFILOAD. (206007)
Beams were sometimes not placed correctly along a structural line. (206335)
Jumps in the shear force curve of beams or design elements were sometimes not displayed.
COPY from ELLA ignores now variable Split of distributed loadings. (206007)
Exclude quad elements with only geometric properties from the calculation of the shear area of storey levels. (206973)
The wrinkle compression strain of membranes could not be selected in the tree.
Corrected creep calculation using imperfections in beam local coordinates and transforming to global
Improved check of cross section for symmetry in nominal curvature method (203658)
The order of the holes assigned to the polygons was sometimes not correctly stored in the database, which could lead to warnings (in program AQB). (204690)
With STYP FEM, the information about the effectiveness (NEFF) was not passed on to the FEM elements and nodes of the final cross-section if the NEFF area was defined only in a construction stage. (203384)
Sometimes the check of the maximum thickness of the steel panels did not work. (203240,204673)
Quad Simultanious input of GRP2 QUEX and QUEY with different values corrected
Punching beta-values: analysis of resistance values W1 for boundary columns corrected.
Code South Afrika: crack design corrected (old British Standard) (202512)
Service pack release.
Error 35 for large systems with QUAD elements and INT>2 eliminated. (205480)
Load distribution areas: load distribution improved for single span areas (205075)
Corrected numbering of spring elements and their assignment to RSETs when automatic groups are used.
Storey drift calculation:
Correction of calculation of reinforcement content in column design report
Corrected consideration of the effective length l0,fi in column design workflow within Revit (202101)
User defined minimum shear reinforcement has not been considered in standard cross-sections. (203432)
For crack analysis with NSTR and STRE tendons without bond have been accounted for. (201574)
QUAD material timber layer composition: correction of limitation of shear stiffness on weak shear modulus
QUAD material timber without FLAY layers: using soft rolling modulus G90 implemented
Material worklaws quads on NSTR-KSV CAL without safety factor corrected (were streched to the right). (202143)
T beam philosophy did not work in case GRP2 QEMX was given for another slab area. (202466)
Rotational springs: pi-delta analysis on TH2 had bad convergence - corrected (TH3 was OK) (202921)
CSM stages with beam and slab tendons: CS stage number storage corrected. (202870)
Input AQUA MEXT and CTRL FGXY to correct the 8*8 stiffness matrix for layered timber did not work properly - corrected (202956)
Belgium code punching: vRd,max according 6.4.5(3) set to 0.5*nue*fcd (as in British Standard) (202512)
Punching beta-values: analysis of bending moment around the center of the perimeter cut according EN 1992-1-1 6.4.3 (6.39) corrected.
Beam forces: in the CSM 5000-differential loadcases now no double results at inner beam sections are stored to avoid conflicts in MAXIMA. (203056)
Separation of prestress with GPCS 1 activated also for cable prestress with P_4 (202658)
In the sectional plots, alignments of quads intersected from a structural area having arbitrary local coordinate system are now corrected. (203521)
Improved the performance for larger projects through more effective caching of data. (201669,201862,201731)
Correction of the XCOL from ELLA to COPY in SOFILOAD (202943)
The spring constants per area were "distributed" on node sequence instead of drawing only "along", so a wrong unit was generated.
Sometimes texts were not displayed if they was set as bold, italic or underscore. (202111)
Storey COR (Centre Of Rigidity) and COM (Centre Of Mass) computation:
Identification of beam spans and supports is now possible by defining support sections using DSLC ... TYPM SUPP in DECREATOR. (190837)
The seismic load combination is now available for the continuous beam design.
Young's modulus for indian design code IRC 112 corrected. (200547)
A polygon was wrong if the first point was defined as chamfer.
Prestressed slabs nonlinear in ULS: tendon duct reduction corrected on high strains.
Springs TH3: physically correct offset moment due to a transverse displacement activated (CTRL SPRI V5)
The max. allowable steel strain (used to calculate the design tensile strength ft) is now taken from the .ini file of the code. Differences occur e.g. for bridge codes ÖNorm (20 0/00) and bridge codes Norway (10 0/00). The max. allowable steel strain can be set with BEMESS-MAT...S2. (199950)
With PARA ... XMIN-XMAX the input e.g. of a minimum reinforcement can now be done with a selection box.
With CRAC ... BET1 SILO now a crack width analysis can be done for silos according NF-EC2-3.
Echo Full Full option now includes additional output as described in handbook. (201088)
Braking loads have been applied without eccentricity for INT 0. (200409)
For braking loads the factor on the longitudinal loads has been applied twice. (200288)
Evaluation of residual areas enhanced for INT>2.
Nonlinear halfspace contact: new option PLAS DPDS defines a reduction of the soil pressure at the slab boundary.
Fixed bug in superposition values after processing boundary elements. (201117)
Support UTF8 characters in file names, template file names and their paths (197862, 200003).
The reference to a secondary axis did not work for design elements.
The printed normal stresses were incorrect for aluminium in class 4. (196501)
Improved projection of copied load trains with point loads (199855)
Calculate variable thickness of an attribute area according to the interpolation field of its parent SAR. (198332)
An additional rotation did not worked for view direction of a referenced element. (199547)
GRA output: Sometimes controls were not saved, e.g. number of texts at lines. (199547)
Sometimes wrong units were used, e.g. when error messages were also printed. (200801)
The direction of elevation of axis grid was wrong at the interactive input, so that the axis grid was "above" the system instead of "below".
Sometimes the load case selection also changed the "selection by layer".
Sometimes SIR cuts could not be moved to cross sections center of elasticity anymore.
Task for import of the Excel-based Structural-Analysis-Format (SAF) now supports the import of point, line and area loads and mapping of SAF load natures to SOFiSTiK actions.
Nominal Curvature Method revised so that the utilization factor Ed/Rd does not exceed 1.0. (189510)
Long combination inputs can now be continued on the following line of the COMB command by setting the option TYPE CONT. (195295)
The plots of the results containing ratios are now properly scaled in reference to the length unit in the generated report.
The position of the elastic center in y-direction for stress calculations has been corrected for cross-sections with FSYM YES and several construction stages. (196487)
The calculation of stress limits for crack control acc. DIN EN 1992-1-1/NA Tab. 7.2DE for concrete with strength classes higher than C30/37 has been corrected. (199400)
The minimum value for the effective tensile strength of light weight concrete for the calculation of minimum reinforcements for crack control acc. DIN EN 1992-1-1 7.3.2 has been corrected acc. NCI to 11.7.
Overlapping non effective areas of the same type were applied twice for thick walled sections. (199153)
Nonlinear cracked quads with LAY multilayer reinforcement had problems with CSM usage - solved. (197985)
Halfspace: nonlinear analysis improved for big halfspace matrixes. (198854)
Correction on bedded boundary elements that are activated in a later CSM construction stage. (199437)
Cable elements TH3: correction in case a cable without sagging failed in the primary loadcase and got a new temperature load. (199462)
Slip-cable elements with friction MUE: analysis corrected for multiple SLIP groups.
Tendons: max. number of tendons at a node increased (on many small tendons and thick plates sometimes not enough tendons were used) (197749)
Quad design: automatic generated WING Plots improved. (198678)
Primary an secondary part of prestress extended for partial prestress. (198747)
HIST SECT did not work for modal analysis.
The parts from the warping moment were not used for the cross section axial stresses at construction stages. (197764)
Horizontal area loadings from wheel loads (CTRL COPY 2+4*6) were to small by a factor of 2.
Fixed issue generating structural lines between placements. (198407)
PDF Contextual Help: PDF manuals are now properly opened in the external viewer. This applies to changes of the currently selected keyword as well as opening multiple manuals.
Support symbols were sometimes not offered to changing their properties. (198379)
The manual was not started from the help buttons in dialogues.
Copying a metafile (PLB) into the ReportBrowser is no longer supported by the ReportBrowser. GRAPHIC therefore only copies the CADINP input (GRA) for TEDDY into the clipboard.
CSM Bridge Design - Superpositioning: Superpositions according to equations 6.1a and 6.10b of the National Annexes of Denmark and Finland are available. Please note: It is not the default. If desired, please request by ticking the box.
National Annexes Denmark for bridges: new action FAT for fatigue traffic loading used in CSM
NS EN199x-200x-BRIDGE, NEN EN199x-200x-BRIDGE: Missing default actions added
Storey COR (Centre Of Rigidity) computation:
Eigenmode analysis:
Eigenmode analysis:
Fixed problem in calculating the shear area of storey levels (SOFIMSHC). (195662)
Only design elements defined as TYPE SHRW will appear in the Shear Wall Design task.
The output of nonlinear calculated shear stresses (AQB NSTR) for stress points of thin-walled cross-sections has been corrected.
The printout of stress sways for unbonded tendons in the tables "Design for Fatigue" and "Maximum Stresses and Checked Limits" has been corrected. (195564)
Rotated non effective areas (with input of a thickness) were too small. (195930)
Minimum shear reinforcement corrected for NS EN1992-1-1 9.2.2(5). (194642)
The fillets of american W, M, S and HPus profiles were wrong.
Circular standard cross sections did not saved the info for using reinforcements (CTRL RFCS).
Sometimes the texts of the dimension lines in the cross-section drawing had too few digits.
Value of the torsional equivalent area (Bredt) was sometimes not updated for sections from earlier versions. (196996)
Using a primary loadcase (CSM) with a single spring parallel to a bedded boundary element corrected. (193785)
Incremental launching: Moving Spring contact for first spring activation: correction.
Using a primary loadcase (CSM) with elastic boundary on coupled nodes - correction. (197016)
Nonlinear creep implementiert in the quad concrete model, see example ase.dat.._quad1_nonlinear_creep.dat
Nonlinear beams full plastic with NSTR KSV PLD: extended with storage of the material strain to better check the plastic zones.
Convergency improved for nichtlinear springs with transverse friction.
Quad inplane stiffness (beam fixed in a skew abutment wall): extended for use with primary loadcase (CSM).
BRIC with material timber: extended for soft rolling modulus from AQUA-TIMB-G90. Example see special timber_bric_layer.dat
Service design: in case not all elements/groups are selected in a BEMESS run, now old service stresses are removed in the LCR design case for not designed elements. (195641)
Duct reduction in shear design with tendons corrected - in special cases the reduction was too high. (196355)
Punching at foundation wall ends: decision of integration type CTRL WINT improved. (196554)
Analysis of primary and secondary beam prestress corrected for systems with both beam and quad tendons.
CSM DESI Denmark and Finland: a superposition according national 6.10a/b can now be requested with CTRL MAXI 1.
Stage design: storage of results improved with CSM-COPY-AUTO.
CSM DESI MAXIMA: test print in MAXIMA ECHO LOAD removed, can bei reset manually with DESI MAX PAR2 1.
CSM OPTI: Iteration of scalable loadcases improved - especially with cable sagging.
CSM OPTI: new option EQIT COPY to check the iteration development.
Geometry of arbitrarily oriented tendons that are modelled inside intersected beam elements is now corrected. (194942,196378)
Missing tendons in AQB that are intersected by more than one Design Element are now added. (194882)
Geometry of a Design Element, that is defined based on an axis, is corrected when the starting point is different from that of the axis. (189930)
Definition using TYPE SHRW input is now required to consider Design Elements in the Shear Wall Design workflow.
Program crashed with visualisation of train interactions and condensed constraints. (169165)
Error corrections for the longitudinal evaluation of residual areas with transverse influence lines.
Reset ECHO options for a continued input block, after an END statement. (195451)
Export to DOCX failed when the project's name contained special characters (193836,195874).
Explicitely defined formulas from Module MAXiMA are exported to DOCX.
New values are available: - Plate shear stresses of layers (184401,196911)
The result 'mass per length' used a wrong unit. (196389)
When reading trusses or cables, a crash may occur.
Some information about set filters was missing on copy to clipboard and export to excel. (195356)
Sometimes set variables have not been considered. (197290)
Braking loads for Canadian load trains could not be enabled, they are now active by default.
Print information of the used Standards according to the used materials. (196385)
Fixed problem in calculating the shear area of storey levels. (195662)
Fixed problem in exporting geometric axes defined by NURBS to DAT format. (195186)
Fixed issue in Export to DAT. In some cases, numbers of structural points have been assigned incorrectly, leading to support conditions not assigned correctly.
Print information of the used Standards according to the used materials. (196385)
Maximum number of TOPP points increased to 1024 (previously 124)
Some structural lines were not displayed during a group selection. (196047,196182)
The result 'mass per length' used a wrong unit. (196389)
Cross-section contours were displayed incorrectly if they were referenced to the zero point.
The tendons of the design elements were sometimes displayed incorrectly.
The manual and the log-file was not displayed anymore.
Unsupported snap options were not greyed out.
The height of the colour scale could not be changed.
National Annexes Denmark for bridges: New design code DS EN199x-200x-BRIDGE available (new INI file ds_en199x-200x-bridge.ini) (190698)
Task Action Manager: Possible action definition for user defined action revised (191301)
National Annexes Denmark: Consideration of the additional safety factor gamma-3 for the materials
The Material Table contains all design safety factors with the reduction coefficient alpha,cc.
Core Cross Section Plot: The displacement and scale for some Core Cross Section plots were incorrect. (193339)
Storey Checks Task crashed if it was inserted in the 2022-0 Release version and opened with the Service Pack 1. (193184)
The shearwall information table contains angle phi to describe the orientation in respect of the global coordinate system.
The Material Table contains all design safety factors with the reduction coefficient alpha,cc.
Load cases containing response spectra definitions are not offered anymore within the Linear Analysis Task.
Deduction of noneffective stresses happend to be accounted as tensile forces for the internal lever. (193813)
Correction of force transformation for strong axis inclination (-> haunched beams, geometrically nonlinear structural analysis (2nd order theory)). (192526)
The calculation of the strength reduction factor v (see EN 1992-1-1, 6.2.2 (6)) has been improved for construction joints for DIN EN1992 and EN 1992.
Problems with multi stage creep if materials changed within a beam. (194117)
The input c=0 (acc. to NCI for DIN EN 1992-2, 6.2.5 (105)) for shear interfaces subjected to dynamic and fatigue loading, is now supported. (193442,194292)
Incremental launching: Moving Spring contact corrected for first spring activation.
Using a primary loadcase (CSM) with elastic boundary on coupled nodes corrected. (157773)
Incremental launching: Longitudinal and transverse fixings with moving springs MOVS L0 TRAN improved. They now work with correct total deformation.
Nonlinear quad elements with tendons: prestrain corrected on yielding tendons.
Nonlinear quad elements with tendons: design of nonlinear ASE loadcases: limitation of tendon stress increase (CTRL SIGP).
With ECHO PUNC 4 you now get in the WINGRAF Plot also the V-Ed without bedding reduction for bedded slabs.
CSM DESI: detection of bridge class B,C,D adapted for version 2022. (195080)
CSM DESI stress checks: combination selection for the informative uniaxial concrete compression stress set to pk-sup.
Safety coefficient creep: with CTRL GAMC V2 now also the favorable value can be input.
Fixed crash when using DECREATOR only to delete design elements by the DDEL command.
New version number (servicepack).
SIR: Sometimes wrong results were calculated for cuts along the element edges between triangular QUAD elements. (194025)
TRAC: The traced input Load Cases and corresponding Factors can be stored as a new Combination, via parameter CSAV.
Actions belonging to PART Q are considered together with the Leading Action, when processing load groups. (190215)
TRAC: Output of the categories of Actions corrected.
SUPP: Parameter CSAV marked as obsolete, for future versions. A more suitable alternative is offered via command TRAC.
The new option CFG SSD allows to account for the project’s configuration file (*.plb.cfg) when converting a PLB into a DOCX file using a text input within SSD.
Page breaks, when present and active in the SOFiSTiK printouts (*.plb), are exported to DOCX.
Corrected error in importing STL files. (193144)
TRAN: Improved algorithm for incremental isotropic rotations about multiple axes (PHI).
Automatic numbering of springs at structural points improved.
Improved internal triangulation processing that was occasionally issuing an unnecessary warning.
In some cases, spurious support reactions were computed at nodes subjected to imposed displacements - corrected. (194633)
It is possible to display the values of shear wall design.
Sometimes wrong values were shown for area related moments of coupling springs along nodal sequences. (190547)
Sometimes the 'comparison' (e.g. maximum values) of the boundary results was wrong. (194660)
Sometimes not all BRIC surfaces were read. These areas were therefore missing in the representation. (193068)
The switch 'All groups' for the primary groups of the elements showed the additional elements too, even if there was switched off. (189437)
Sometimes the unit set was changed during saving GRA files. (192998)
The picture size was wrong for format A4 transverse in a ZTV-Ing page. (193360)
The ZOOM shortcuts work now as described in menu (F11=Zoom, F12=Zoom before, Ctrl-F12=Zoom borders).
Task Define Combinations: For some design codes the frequent combination can be selected again. (191571)
SS EN199x-200x-bridge: Correction of unfavourable safety factor for traffic loads on bridges for the actions L and SL (190698)
Tasks Combine Loads and Combine Results: For automatic determination of the resulting loadcase combinations a standard combination from the task Define Combinations is not valid anymore
Support of Layer to group mapping. Members assigned to Layers in the SAF file will be mapped to corresponding groups in the SOFiSTiK database
Improved detection of steel profiles and support of generic sections defined as polygons.
When loading an IFC file, validate if it is defined in "Structural Analysis View". Otherwise, a corresponding error message will be issued.
Eigenmode analysis:
COR and COM computation/ Eigenmode analysis/ System Stability Check:
Further improvements to the task Storey Checks:
Further improvements to the task Capacity Check for Building Cores:
Column: Resolved error in license query (191931)
Problems with FSYM YES and CTRL AXIS +2/-2 resolved. (190946)
Normal force from prestress has been applied on the full section even with NEFF N. (old feature from the period with non effective polygon vertices) (190532)
Shear areas of thin walled shear connections with not considered, even if they are not stored in an own material number. (190190)
Some control options did not worked during restart (CTRL REST 2/3).
The non effectivity of reinforcement points were checked only in end stage, but not in construction stages.
Non effective reinforcements (only NEFF '-RY' or '-RZ') were sometimes incorrect considered for thick walled sections.
The FEM integration of Gauss points (CTRL SINT 4) calculated sometimes wrong results. This calculation is splitted now in an integration of Gauss points only (CTRL SINT 4) and Gauss points with element center (CTRL SINT 5). Die control of SINT was not exported for standard profiles.
The explicitly changed dimensions were missed during export of profiles.
Prestress in reinforcement points was wrong. (191457)
Circular shear reinforcements (CRF LAY 'B...') were worked wrong. (191358)
The reference levels LEV of work laws SFLA has to input in ascending order. Otherwise an error message is printed. (191433)
Incremental launching: activation of new segments improved in case of launching in a circle.
Eigenfrequency analysis: excentricities of quad- and beam elements corrected in the outprint of the center of mass.
Nonlinear quad elements concrete multilayer: print of crack width corrected. (191289)
Layered quad elements MLAY in combination with beams and construction stages: storage corrected. (191706)
Number of possible nonlinear spring work laws increased from 999 to 9999.
Plastic beams: With CTRL BEAM V2 the default value of 1.70 for the plastic interaction on NSTR PL or PLD can now be changed, e.g. CTRL BEAM V2 1.80
Layerdesign on service SLS: iteration improved in case of more than 2 layers per side. (190613)
Punching: in case VZbeta is bigger in another loadcase than VZbeta in the loadcase for max.VZ this is now printed more exact and the beta used for max.VZ is adapted more precise. (190847)
Crack width design multilayer reinforcement: analysis of averaged reinforcement improved in case highest reinforcement is inside. (192732)
Default MAT MINC cross reinforcement set to 0.0
CSM TEMP: temperature loads on BEAM-QUAD T-beam systems corrected for 2 loadcases. (192566)
New input DESI MAX2 to store the MAXIMA superposition results without the static determined part of prestress.
CTRL GPCS allowed for incremental launching.
input GRCS extended for secondary groups.
Stage design for american AASHTO extended with input GAMT for temporary safety factors.
Calculations now proceed without error when tendons inside beam elements are not included in the selection of a design section. (191203)
Interpolation of polygon cross sections is now solved for any amount of design sections. (190642)
A design section will not be filtered out anymore if it intersects a non-continuous or free edge of a structural area anywhere along the design element.
Service pack release.
New values are available:
Lists can be also exported as .csv files.
Performance Point evaluation according to EC8 procedure: Depiction of computed demand curve was corrected.
Error on non-existent RSET elements. (192105)
Fixed issue in processing error messages.
Fixed crash when processing collapsed edges. (192342)
Prevent database lock when meshing fails. (188737)
Improvement of visual inspection of the model, by not interrupting the overall meshing, when a local meshing error occurs.
System values of curved design elements were positioning wrong. The length of such elements was wrong.
A wrong representation of shear reinforcement was displayed at result 'Shear reinforcement and punching' if the 'grid representation' was switched on. (190547)
GRA output, record BOX, item OPER: The literal 'AND' was not written.
Get started easy: Based on a few user specified system parameters only, the re-worked system information dialog directly takes you to a tailored initial project configuration.
Construction Stages task automatically initializes the groups' construction stage information (activation - deactivation) from the database.
We completely revised our workflow for seismic response spectrum analysis. The task comes with new backbone technology and charged experience:
For the assessment of structural seismic response, storey-based design criteria are an important ingredient in an engineer’s toolbox. Our new task Storey Checks provides the following calculation procedures for the storey results in the form of tables and corresponding plots:
Traffic Loader task allows the selection of the spring items from the available Result Sets (RSETs) as a calculation result.
All superpositions of one combination rule can now be handled in a single MAXIMA run. Thus, intermediate and final superpositions can be processed in a single superposition task, only the sequence of input is important.
The new task Shear Wall Design performs a preliminary shear wall design to calculate the required reinforcement:
This new task performs a capacity check for building cores and single shear walls:
The new IFC/SAF Connector task enables you to import structural analysis models generated by other software in IFC (Structural Analysis View) or SAF format, thereby facilitating the Open-BIM workflow. Further information and how to use it are provided in the online manual.
Construction stages are now considered also for shear within NSTR.
DESI with KSV PL/PLD calculates the utilisation for plastic capacities for steel- and composite sections.
Gravity center can be defined in record SVAL.
Shear bonds (WELD with a thickness <0) do not contribute to the determined shear forces. This can lead to lower plastic values, which are calculated with steel area only, but also to possibly higher elastic values, where inertia includes steel and concrete. Therefore the elastic values will not displayed anymore.
For the stress points (record SPT), the thickness TEFF for the c/t check can now also be set as a reference to a TVAR variable. (166600,173353)
The plastic limit moments of rotated standard profiles were wrong if they were not calculated explicitly (CTRL STYP FORC). (184658)
Shear forces of the combinations of plastic limit forces were sometimes wrong. They will not displayed anymore.
The minimum reinforcement was not considered for the calculation of elastic limit forces.
The reducing areas of non effective reinforcements (NEFF Y,Z) and of reinforcements in composite sections were sometimes incorrect considered.
Sometimes shear stiffness of non effective reinforcements (NEFF -RN) were used in FE sections.
Shear areas Ay and Az and torsional inertia It of sectional design values were sometimes wrong.
Suppress rotation of principal axes (Iyz=0) was sometimes not considered.
The torsional inertia was sometimes not initialized, so the standard buckling curve may have been incorrect.
At construction stages and composite sections, the plastic moments Mt, Mt2 and Mb were sometimes related to a wrong shear center.
Fixed crash when processing complex thick walled cross sections with many nested polygons.
The export of variable thickness was sometimes wrong.
The torsional equivalent area (Bredt) is calculated more exact in case of one perimetric reinforcement (CURF).
A warning is printed if the sum of reinforcement is bigger than As,max recommending in design code.
3D continuum analysis, new steel material with arbitrary hardening: For nonlinear 3D continuum analysis, a STEE material is now considered as elastoplastic continuum material of von-Mises type. Nonlinear hardening is automatically calibrated according to the specified work law (e.g. tri-linear). Example file: .../bric/bric_steel_trilinear_uniaxial_tension.dat.
Classification of design elements is now possible using the DSLN option TYPE, considering the intended structural member. Currently “Building Core” and “General” types can be set.
Geometry of a design element can now be defined from a connected sequence of truss elements by the DGEO option TRUS.
Enhancements and extensions for the wind derivative. The estimates of the eigenfrequencies have been improved and may be specified with GRP and STEP.
SUPP: SRSE Determination of the associated square root while maintaining the sign.
TRAC: Tracing of RSET results, boundary results and results of objective functions possible, improved printout for beam sections with result jumps (e.g. shear force jump).
SUPP: ETYP QUA* and BRI* obsolete.
The new input CFG allows to account for an existing configuration file (*.plb.cfg) when converting the content of a PLB into a DOCX file.
Inactive Chapters, Modules and Sections of the SOFiSTiK printouts (*.plb) are ignored by the graphical command Export to DOCX.
Complete redesign of filters with focus on faster input, combination of multiple filters and improved visibility.
The performance of the Export to Excel (XLSX) has been significantly improved.
Improved the user experience of the JOIN window.
A new startup window is now available.
A new online help is now available.
New values are available:
The generation of stresses on cross section was revised:
Factors, e.g. utilisation levels, may be displayed as percent.
Same columns, e.g. quad element number, have now always the same unique name ('QUAD' instead of 'No').
Enhancements for wind generation. Input values EIGB,EIGT and EIGL in record GRP and WGEN have been removed resp. are no longer used.
Groups can be assigned an activation / deactivation construction stage number.
Groups can be assigned an activation / deactivation construction stage number.
Predefined Result Sets for bearings at nodes may be generated using the new SRES command.
Meshing performance improved.
CADINP Completer: An intelligent CADINP code completion, which will provide input suggestions via pop up as you type. To manually open the pop up of the CADINP completer, the CTRL + L keyboard shortcut may be used.
The font size scaling has been improved.
Improved the user experience of the "Find", "Replace" and "Find in files" dialog.
Line numbers are now displayed.
A new startup window is now available.
A new online help is now available.
It is possible to display generated and internal nodal sequences.
The cross section descriptions of standard steel profile are printed without the code text. (168450,188400)
It is possible to display storey level extremal inter-storey drift.
The single selection for nodal sequences (SEL EDGE) is possible.
Coordinates of QUAD nodes and BRIC nodes were not displayed anymore.
Check of non linear BRIC results took some time.