Brace Classification tool – calculates brace types (K, TY, X) and total gap for braces from Connection Finder Tool.
Brace Stress Tool:
Calculate stresses for rectangular hollow sections and I-beams;
Calculate axial and bending forces/stresses on chord elements from both sides of the brace connected to the chord;
Connection check – create custom calculations for connections using dimensions from Connection Finder Tool, forces/moments/stresses from Brace Stresses Tool, and brace Type (K, TY, X) from Brace Classification Tool:
Beam Member Diagram for custom checks – display result distribution per sub/beam members from Beam Member Finder tool:
Beam Member Diagram for Jobs – added possibility to pick result category (e.g. Stress, Displacement) instead of embedded Line Element Force result category;
Plate Buckling DNV 2010 – added option for user input of ‘Design Lateral Pressure’ parameter:
Norsok N004, Rev3 – added option to calculate non-tubular shapes according to Eurocode3 (EN- EN1993-1-1, 2005) standard:
Eurocode3 Bolts (EN 1993-1-8, 2005) – wizard is added:
Rule Selector Control:
Select connections from Connection Finder Tool from the list or by components;
Select element/nodes by text condition:
Shape Library:
Added new shapes from standards (DIN 1015: 1972, EU 79-69, EU 19-57, CSN 42 5541: 1977 etc.);
Filter shapes by Source;
Create selected shapes directly in Femap/Ansys Mechanical:
Peak Finder – added options for plotting average value on zone;
Stress Gradient Tool – contour plot is added;
Load Selector – filter loads by text;
BUG FIXES
Eurocode 3 Member Standard (EN 1993-1-8):
Flange Class and consequently Cross Section Class calculations for rectangular tube cross section used too conservative approach;
Limit 3 for defining Web Class returned always 0;
FKM (6th, 2010):
“Stress Ratio” parameter in checks “3..Fatigue (constant amplitude stress spectrum)” and “4..Fatigue (variable amplitude stress spectrum)” was out of the range [-1; 1] for situations where minimum weld stress was higher in absolute value than maximum weld stress.
Equivalent degree of utilization_Non welded” parameter in “2..Static Stress Check” contained division on 0 for welded parts that resulted in a high utilization factor.
Division on 0 occurred in check “2..Steel Fatigue Check (DVS 1612)” if parameter “Kappa “ = 1;
“Stress Ratio” parameter in “3..Aluminum Fatigue Check (DVS 1608)” returned negative infinity if SWeldMax = 0;
Plate Buckling DNV 2010 in check ‘3..Stiffener Buckling Results’:
P0 is set to 0 if Psi >= -1.5;
formula of Qsd parameter is changed for Abs(Psd) < P0 to take the worst value between Psd+P0 and Psd-P0;
Incorrect linking of result files for some of the loads for SDC Verifier projects that contain more than 10 Jobs;
Mechanical crashed when reading results for beam elements if Beam Section result was turned on;
Failed to read strain results for all models (Ansys);
Failed to calculate Global Plate stresses for Load Groups;
Results were not cleared in Joint Check according to ISO 19902 (1st, 2007) after factors (Gamm R,q and Gamma R,j) had been changed in the settings;
Joint Finder – failed to recognize fixed joints for constraints in case constraint included same nodes;
Wind Load was not reapplied if it was not linked to any Individual Load (Femap);
Wind Load did not take into account modified drag coefficients when reapplying existing Wind Loads (Femap, Ansys);
Peak Finder – table was not added after Peak Finder had been edited;
Weld Finder:
Duplicated welds were recognized if “Keep all modified” or “Keep all existing” action was selected for existing welds;
Weld Tips elements were added to the weld elements in the Weld Finder tool after accessing Weld Stresses results for the first time;
Failed to recognize welds in Weld Finder tool on model contacts with shell elements that included mid-side nodes (Ansys);
Fatigue Group – number format crash appeared when modifying cycles but existing cycles contained spaces (e.g. ‘2 000 000’);
Incorrect selection of weld parts by angles in Rule Selector if the angle between normal vectors of weld parts was more than 90 degrees;
Analyzing not all loads that exist in the Job cleared results for all loads (Femap);
Failed to write results to files for custom checks for huge models;
Memory overflow in custom checks when estimating necessary RAM for results on a huge model (~800 000 elements) and ~50 parameters in the check;
Stress Gradient Tool – results shifted if the element did not fit the condition (e.g. beam/solid element was selected for Thickness condition, or element without a free edge was selected for Inward condition);
Results of checks were cleared if to rename Individual Load (Ansys);
Included saving of Principal Stress results for Individual Loads and Load Sets to the files (calculation performance for checks that use Principal Stresses was increased);
Plate Buckling Module – beam buckling module was required to load the project;
Incorrect expand table for Job was opened from the Components Extreme Table of the custom check;
Crash when opening help topics on the Check Table node;
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