New in PLAXIS 3D CONNECT Edition V21 Update 1
Release: April 2021
PLAXIS 3D CONNECT Edition V21 Update 1 (21.01.00.479) contains the following improvements and updates compared to PLAXIS 3D CONNECT Edition V21.00:
New features
Subspace accelerator in phase settings
Added subspace accelerator as an additional numerical control parameter in the phase settings. This new numerical settings helps to improve the behaviour of slow converging calculations.
Technology Preview: SACS - PLAXIS Suction Bucket Analysis tool for interoperability with SACS
Added SACS - PLAXIS Suction Bucket Analysis tool for interoperability with SACS to model the interaction between the soil and SACS designed suction buckets.
Fixed issues
A large number of issues have been addressed, including:
- [555184] The curves manager now loads older curves again
- [547941] Fixed an issue with tunnel girders added to segments with negative radii
- [547421] UDSM EVE-MC: fixed issue for using the proper dilation angle value for the Mohr-Coulomb behaviour
- [540735] Fixed an issue in the combination of a Rigid Body and Free field elements in 3D Dynamics
- [540727] Ru values for dynamic consolidation when using UBCSand are shown again
- [517917] Fixed an issue when a Rigid Body included or touched a geotextile
- [516057] Improvements on intersection routines on tunnel shapes including girders
- [514782] PLAXIS-SACS interoperability prevents usage of the tool is no soil is available
- [514609] Fixed an issue for showing preconsolidation stress Pc values in a Safety Analysis for Soft Soil and Soft Soil Creep
- [514017] Improvements on intersection routines on horseshoe tunnel shapes including girders
- [513593] Fixed an issue with PLAXIS Python scripting when groups of phases were used in PLAXIS Output
- [509988] Fixed an issue when for Embedded Beams using layer-dependent skin friction when embedded into a UBC3D-PLM (UBC Sand) soil material.
- [506283] RE-introduction plastic points in a cross-section plane. Plastic points are now shown for every plastic point inside all elements that are crossed by the cross-section
- [506019] Numerical performance increase when using max load fraction
- [503408] Slow steady-state flow calculations resulted in a failed deformation calculation. The performance of the steady-state flow calculation for large projects has been improved to overcome this.
- [499737] Fixed an issue with tunnel girders added to segments with negative radii
- [481203] Creating force curves (N) for Fixed-end anchors using post-calculation selected nodes is restored
- [474107] Fixed an issue with word-wrap in the commands runner.
- [462420] Concrete model: φmax should have a value greater than zero. This is now checked and an error is given when the value is zero
- [438355] Fixed an issue in mesh generation for curved interface elements
- [435033] Display improvements for Rayleigh damping parameter selection for higher frequencies
- [421505] Cyclic Accumulation tool: visualisation improvements in DSS graph
- [414600] Fixed an issue in retrieving state parameter values (User Defined Soil models) in curves when using post-calculation selected stress points
- [379834] Fixed an issue in the creation of the geometry in the Tunnel Designer
- [379689] Fixed issue DoBoot(): Failed to initialize DLL when starting PLAXIS. Note: also requires the latest CONNECTION Client for the fix.
- [379295] Waterload tables are now also updated when switching your phase in PLAXIS Output
Download links
You can update to the latest version using the CONNECTION Client, or download the installer via Bentley System's Software downloads.