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Analysis/Design Engine: (40)
- 488409 - The routine used in the BS5950-5 cold formed steel design has been updated to support UK cold formed channel profiles with lips.
- 488489 - The routine that produces the details from a member design to the Australian AS4100 steel design code that is can then be used by the Beam Properties/Member Query dialog, has been updated to so that the values of Mnz displayed in the Steel Design sheet can reported when both positive or negative.
- 579524 - The routine used for joint checks in the IS13920 design module has been updated to address an issue which prevented the checks to be performed on columns which had no column section continuing above such as at the roof level of a building. The routine will now include checks at these locations.
- 705991 - The routine that validates the flatness of quad plates prior to building the stiffness matrix has been updated to better account for plates that have been assigned offsets which was previously erroneously reporting plates as warped, although continued to correctly solve the model.
- 788760 - The formatting of the output command 'STEEL TAKE OFF' has been updated to ensure that the header is correctly printed after the competed command. Previously, where the command was extended onto a second line, this would result in the header and completion of the command being printed out of sequence.
- 933496 - The routine that manages members defined as cables during a cable analysis in models that include floor diaphragms or control/dependant nodes. The analysis will now catch any instance where a member cable has been defined as part of a floor diaphragm as a cable member only has no bending stiffness required for the diaphragm action and as such reports an error and terminates.
- 933497 - The routine that processes load cases that include the command MODAL CALCUATION REQUESTED has been updated in that such load cases, i.e. only intended to report the eigen results, now only report the eigen results and not other results associated with primary cases such as deflections, forces, reactions etc.
- 937140 - The memory handling of the data used in the IS 456 concrete design routine has been updated to ensure that it is properly cleaned up. Previously, if a design to IS456 was followed by design to another code, such as checking the steelwork to IS800, then this would cause the analysis process crash.
- 937179 - The routine that identifies members as non-co-linear which was addressed in a previous issue, 487838, has been further updated so as to better inform only those members which fail the collinearity check rather than any within the limits of the check.
- 939242 - The routine that manages concentrated loads that are applied at the end (rather than the start) of a member has been updated to provide a clearer advice message regarding the preferable use of JOINT LOAD instead.
- 963982 - The validation routines used in the steel and concrete design have been updated to report any member specified with an aluminium material as invalid and will not be designed.
- 973697 - The design of physical members to the Australian steel design code AS4100 has been updated to address an issue in which for member segments unrestrained at one end, the Moment Modification factor (alpha-m) was incorrectly evaluated as per Eqn 5.6.1.1 (a) (iii), instead of Table 5.6.2. As a result, the value of alpha-m and the moment capacity as overestimated.
- 976119 - The IS800:2007 LSD and WSD design code routines have been updated to better handle members with slender elements such that if the flanges are not slender, but the web is, provided there is no bending, the design for the other criteria and maximum reported. If there is any bending, then a warning reported as this is not supported.
- 977465 - The design of web tapered members to IS800:2007 has been updated to include checks to section 12. Previously these were not included in a design for web tapered members.
- 977643 - The design of web tapered members to the Eurocode, EN 1993-1-1 has been updated to ensure that the section properties relating to the critical section are reported. Previously, the radius of gyration was reported was that of the average over the member length.
- 984980 - The routine that reports the results of a deflection check for the analytical members as part of the Australian steel design AS4100, has been updated to ensure that the load case reported refers to the actual load case number rather than the internal load case index.
- 985082 - The output report for members defined as TRUSS and designed to the IS800 2007 LSD/WSD codes has been updated to ensure that the nature of the axial force reflects the sign of the FX component of the force, i.e. when the axial force at the start of the member is positive or negative when reporting the end axial force, then this is reported as a compressive force.
- 992661 - The output report for a cold formed steel design to AISI 2016 has been slightly modified so that the if the governing utilization ratio values is so large that it fails to fit in the space provided, rather than displaying it with *****, it displays as >100. This could be the case if there is no capacity for any demand.
- 996557 - The steel design routine used in the older Indian steel code IS800:1984 has been updated to address an issue identified in calculating section properties by failing to reset the profile CG location.
- 1003677 - The design of members to the New Zealand code NZS 3404-1997 has been updated to address an issue where a physical member is constructed of multiple segmental parts which are of different lengths and the bracing information is defined using the PBRACE parameter. The issue occurred in determining the forces to calculate the moment amplification factor alpha-m (eq. 5.6.1.1)
- 1005695 - Further to the issue reported in 1003677, the routine being used to determine the value of alpha-m has been updated to ensure that the values determined at the segment quarter points have been correctly determined from the analysis.
- 1014420 - The TRACK 2 (detailed) output provided for members designed to the Eurocode EN 1993-1-1 has been updated to remove a redundant warning relating to deflection checks if the serviceability check was not included.
- 1015058 - The AISI 2016 cold formed steel design module has been updated to address an issue that has been identified when a member is checked to both strength and serviceability envelopes. If the governing condition (i.e. maximum utilization ratio), is from the serviceability checks, then the output in the ANL file does not include the header section, i.e. summary for the design. For a TRACK 1 or TRACK 2, that means that only the detailed sections of the report are included. However, for a TRACK 0, then the member design is missed entirely. Additionally it was noted that for the serviceability checks, whilst the design details for the governing load case were correct, the load case reference was given as the value used internally by the program rather than that as specified in the file. Also note that the corrections to these issues have also addressed the design details provided in the Member Query dialog.
- 1022499 - The AS4100 steel design module has been updated to ensure that if a member fails with a slenderness check, the critical condition is reported based on the maximum ratio of the checks performed. Previously, if slenderness failed, then this would always be reported as the critical condition irrespective of the ratios from the other checks.
- 1023065 - The method used to internally process the command line of a time history load has been updated to allow the scaling factor to be defined with a scaling factor of <-994 which previously would cause the analysis to terminate reporting an error.
- 1032348 - The steel design routine used for double channel profiles (either back to back or front to front) in the AISC 360-16 and BS5950-1:2000 codes has been updated to address an issue which used the properties of only a single channel when determining the shear capacity in the minor axis. This resulted in under estimating the capacity and potentially conservative designs.
- 1037816 - The steel design routine to the Canadian CSA S16 codes, 2009, 2014 and 2019 have all been updated to include the shear areas defined in UPT ISECTION and WIDE FLANGE profiles where provided instead of automatically calculating the values from the section dimensions.
- 1049138 - The routine used to process envelopes in the design of members to the New Zealand steel code NZS 3404:1992 has been updated. If the LOAD LIST command included envelopes defined as Strength and Serviceability, then the deign would consider both sets of load cases as both Strength AND Serviceability resulting in potentially conservative designs. Now, the program will consider only those defined in the Strength envelope for the strength checks and those defined in the Serviceability envelope for the deflection checks.
- 1050391 - The design of steel members to the New Zealand code NZS 3404-1997 has been updated to catch situations where serviceability checks are being requested on physical members. This is currently not supported. Serviceability checks should be performed on the analytical members. A warning message is now reported if this is encountered which previously would have caused the program to terminate.
- 1068635 - The deign of members to the European steel design code EN 1993-1-1 has been updated to address an issue that did not account for the radius of gyration being swapped when using a model that is defined with a SET Z UP command.
- 1073141 - The routine the processes the value of accidental eccentricity (ECC) for the following codes has been updated, IS1893 2002, (Part1) 2016, (Part4) 2015, IBC
- 1076095 - The design routine for concrete members to the ACI 318-14 design code has been updated to address an issue which failed to use a default material of normal weight aggregate (i.e. LWF=0). Instead it was taking a default of LWF=1, i.e. sand light weight and thus reducing the modulus of rupture, resulting in a potentially conservative design.
- 1077049 - The parsing of a the Eurocode EN 1993-1-1 steel design parameter NA has been updated to remove a redundant message when a member list is assigned to the command.
- 1088953 - The routine used to validate section profiles in the EN 1993-1-1 and IS800:1984 has been updated to ensure that profiles defined as UPT Prismatic and Prismatic General are identified and not designed as they are outside the scope of these codes.
- 1121536 - The Eurocode steel design to EN 1993-1-1 has been updated to address an issue when dealing with clause 6.2.5 in which it was only being triggered when there was a compressive axial force and moment about one or both axes. This limitation has been removed and the clause is now always checked. Additionally, clause 6.3.3-661 and clause 6.3.3-662 were not being checked if the axial load was less than 0.1 kN and there was moments about both axes. Again this limitation has been removed.
- 1127889 - The shear areas Ayy and Azz used in the design were not being reported in an AISC 3601-16 design output for designs of HSS round and pipe sections.
- 1153474 - The analysis engine has been updated to catch an unsupported situation where a primary load case is defined with both RALEIGH FREQUENCY and MODAL CALCULATION commands. Only one or other method should be used in a load case.
- 1162473 - The design routine that reports the slenderness on members in the IS800:1984 code has been updated to address an issue when the member has both compression and tension in it. Although rare, it is possible for the appropriate slenderness not to have been reported.
- 1166667 - The calculation to determine the response spectrum to IS1893:2016 when applied as a vertical load has been updated to ensure that if it follows a CHANGE command, it is factored with (Vb/VB) ratio as per Cl 7.7.3b. Note the the assignment of a vertical response spectrum should not precede that of the response spectrum assigned in the lateral directions.
- 1199138 - The routine used in the design of angle profiles used in AISC 360-16 has been updated when checking clause H-2. The equation is checked at three locations, then ends of the legs and the outside of the heel of the angle. For equal angles this should have had a zero effect when bending about the major axis, but due to the effects of rounding very small numbers, this was resulting in a value being equated which is now caught and being filtered out.