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What’s New in SDC Verifier

We’re constantly improving SDC Verifier to keep it at the forefront of structural engineering. Each new release brings innovative features, updated standards compliance, and bug fixes.

Here you can find detailed information about the latest developments in the newest version of SDC Verifier. Explore what’s new and see how these updates can support your design and verification work.

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Compatibility

#New release
#Ansys
#Simcentre
#Femap
  • Support of new CAE: Ansys 2021 R1, Simcenter Femap 2021.1;

 

 

 

 

Standards

#New release
  • FKM – Analytical stress assessment of components made of steel, cast iron and aluminum materials in mechanical engineering (6th edition, 2012) in beta;
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  • Eurocode 3 (EN1993-1-1, 2005, Design of Steel Structures, clause 6.3 Buckling resistance of members): circular/rectangular bars and T shapes were included;
  • DVS 1612 (Design and endurance strength analysis of steel welded joints in rail-vehicle construction). Static stress check was included;
  • AIJ (2005 Edition, 2017). Design Standard for Steel Structures, based on Allowable Stress Concept.  Beam members (beta);
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  • AS 3990 (1993). (Mechanical equipment—Steelwork, Section 5 Design of Beams)  Beam members (beta);
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  • ASME 8 (Div2, 2010)  (Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. Alternative Rules) – user input for fatigue penalty factor was added;

Updated Tools

  • Shapes Library:
    • Overview of shape properties, display selected shape with dimensions;
    • Filtering on shape type, height, width, area etc.;
    • Group shapes in custom lists and reuse them in Optimization Tool;
    • Store existing shapes from the FE model to Shape Library;
  • Principal Stress result category in tables/plots, usage of principal stresses in custom checks formulas was added:
Shape Library
  • Connection Finder tool – recognize beam-beam connection;
  • Brace Stresses tool – axial, in-plane, and out-of-plane bending stresses for braces recognized by  Connection Finder tool;
  • Usage of new Femap API methods was implemented to avoid obsolete API warning in Femap 2020 and above when reading results/plotting;
  • Reading of corner stresses for beams was added if Beam Section option is turned on (Ansys);
  • Reading of connections (contacts) information was added (Ansys);
  • Weld Finder updates:
    • Automatic recognition of welds on the edge/nodal connections (contacts) (Ansys, Femap);
    • Add solid weld manually to calculate weld strength;
    • Automatic origin offset for beam/plate weld parts using average thickness from neighbor weld parts;
    • Include weld tips elements when previewing/highlighting welds;
  • Optimization Tool. Apply optimal shape directly in the FE model (Femap, Ansys);
  • Display Load Set content (per Individual Load with factors) results from Expand Table;
  • Open Expand Table on necessary selection(s) directly from Components Extreme Table;
  • Show results over all points in Expand Flow Table and not only total. Extra options were added;

Report Improvements

#New release
#report
  • Report Improvements:
    • Custom report structure – items are not automatically sorted under load/selection chapters;
    • Connections (contacts) information was added (Femap, Ansys);
    • Replace standard for the set of result items;
    • Create Peak Finder Table directly in the report;
    • Load Set content (per Individual Load with factors) for Peak Finder Table and Governing Loads tool options included;
  • Automatically updatable default titles in all result items (e.g. tables/plots) were included;
  • Variables in check formulas to convert forces from/into necessary units were added;
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Bug Fixes

#bugfixes
  • DVS 1612. The Sign of Y stress was not taken into account in Equivalent UF calculations. Allowable Fatigue Strength parameter for shear directions was updated to use minimum value between fatigue and static allowable fatigue strengths;
  • DNV RP-C-203 Fatigue (2016). Calculations were done for each Principal Stress instead of maximum Principal Stress;
  • Eurocode3 Members (EN1993-1-1, 2005). Swapped Y/Z shear resistance for I-shape (Ansys);
  • Effective Width Tool – Lateral Pressure used shear force in the plane of a plate. Updated to use shear force perpendicular to a plate;
  • DNV 2010 Stiffener Buckling check. Shear force (VSd parameter) was always 0;
  • EN 13001 (2018) – calculate combined damage (formula 41) as maximum from each orthogonal direction plus respective shears instead of summation of all directions;
  • Read combined stresses for beams instead of axial stress only (Ansys);
  • Contour plot for custom checks – swapped top/bottom results for shells (Ansys);
  • Convert stresses of weld tips elements into weld direction was missed;
  • View location and magnification were not stored to the project (Ansys);
  • Reading of results when the analysis was done on part of the model failed (Simcenter 3D);
  • Create sub-steps from Individual Loads with the same name in solution issue (Simcenter 3D);
  • Recognition recovery failed for joints (Ansys);
  • 2D joints were recognized as 3D joints for particular cases (Ansys);
  • Editing Expand/Extreme table in report fix;
  • Appendix item was removed after reapplying report structure;
  • Reading of Afm and Fem parts was fixed (Simcenter 3D);

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