SOFiSTiK SP 2020-5 Build 1128

AQB

Features
- Without a selection of load cases only the design cases will be treated now. But now stresses for all analyzed load cases will be saved in the database for a linear stress check STRE.
- The stress values for STRE can now be given in other units than MPa.
- With CTRL REIN REQU it is now possible to ignore minimum reinforcements defined in the section for bending members.
- The allowable stress according SIA 262-2017 for the crack design has now been implemented. (175003)
- The mean normal stress in shear cuts of flanges will be now taken based on the separated normal force. (170949)
Bugfixes
- Some enhancements for the fatigue stress design. (175533)
- The torsional stress for DESI at RECT sections has always been calculatet with 2*t-eff, even if defined otherwise with the section. (173605)-

AQUA

Features
- The consideration of the (minimum) reinforcement via "CTRL RFCS" has been revised. A footnote in the output tables for the sectional values ​​now shows whether the reinforcement has been applied. When the reinforcement is switched on, it is now used consistently, both for the longitudinal and the shear stresses. By default (new option 'NEFF +R') reinforcements are also activated in non effective areas. This can be used to calculate a cracked concrete (state II) over a column. With the new option 'NEFF -R' it can be specified that the reinforcement that lies inside a non effective area is also not effective. This can be used for the calculation with effective widths of a bridge cross section. So it is no longer necessary geometrically adjust the length of the reinforcement (LBEW) to the NEFF area. Whether a reinforcement is not effective is documented in the output table of the single reinforcement bars. This can also be checked graphically using the program ResultViewer. (172904,167192)
Bugfixes
- Reinforcements were not considered in the table of effective cross section values, even if 'CTRL RFCS' was set. (172200)
- Self weight per meter was to less in the table of effective cross section values, when non effective areas for normal force 'N' were active.
- Some profile types were not offered for code SIA. (173731)
- Sometimes wrong values of australian L profiles was used. (172924)
- Sometimes materials and holes were not properly matched. (175408)
- Export of explicit creep and shrinkage curves (MEXT EIGC, EIGS) has been improved.
- Export of BMAX of shear cuts has been improved.
- Sometimes the coordinate of a reference point was set to 0.0 during flipping a profile

ASE

Bugfixes
- Incremental launching in a circle with nonlinear cables corrected. (174013)
Other Issues
- Halfspace with CSM construction stages did not run - corrected.

BEMESS

Bugfixes
- Minimum shear reinforcement on Eurocode corrected depending on the national annex. (174324)
- Minimum reinforcement MREI: fct-eff on european codes without minimum value 3.0 N/mm2 (only on german national annex). (171819)
- Tabular crack design WK-TAB did not run on Norm DIN Fachbereicht - corrected. (172978)
- Fatigue concrete with sigma,c,perm: outprint problems corrected in case all loadcases had tension. (174593)
- Layerdesign crack width: modifikation of crack distance for skew cracks corrected according EN 7.3.4(4). (174926)
- Robustness reinforcement MREI ROBU according EN 9.2.1.1 : on Eurocode usage (ouside germany) the section height was used too small - corrected. (175274)

CSM

Bugfixes
- CSM optimization: EQIT ITER: check of iteration tolerance corrected in case the last CS was not a target LC. (173321)
Other Issues
- CSM DESI AASHTO Design implemented

DECREATOR

Features
- Integration of quad-element forces, where two or more tendons pass through a single quad element, is now corrected. (172700,173410)
- Tendon geometry are included in the "Sectional Intersections" table of the print-out.
- Redundant design sections, that are automatically created at beam element nodes due to force-jumps are now significantly reduced.
- Interpolation of both user-given and automatically detected cross sections for the same design element is now possible.
Bugfixes
- Distinguish intersection of beam elements from truss elements. (174460)
- Alignments of quad elements are corrected in the Sectional Plots of the print out.
Other Issues
- Lower limit of HDIV section-interval for intermediate outputs is set to 1cm.

DOLFYN

Features
- Performance (Parallelisation) enhanced. Dynamic wind as boundary condition from WGEN in SOFiLOAD implemented.

DYNA

Bugfixes
- Internal error caused premature exit of program when using Scaled Boundary Finite Elements (SBFEM) - fixed. (175327)
- For the direct time stepping procedure, wrong beam element results were computed for storage of intermediate time steps (-> CTRL RLC). Computation and storage of final extremal results (-> EXTR), however, was not affected. (175077)
- Kinematically constrained nodes with additionally associated implicit hinge (=beam hinge with work law) could erroneously trigger internal program error during assembly procedure. (174116)
- Storey levels: Robustness of the calculation of the center of rigidity (COR) and center of mass (COM) improved (-> kinematic couplings). (174457)

ELLA

Features
- ELLA is now working with warping torsion.
- Improvement for evaluation of pile forces and moments.

HASE

Bugfixes
- Interpolation of nonlinear pile friction from bore profiles corrected for ASE. (172384)
Other Issues
- Service pack release.

SOFDLL

Other Issues
- License Year 2021 is required.

SOFINI

Features
- US AISC-2005: materials concrete, reinforcing steel and prestressing steel according to ACI 318M allowed
Bugfixes
- SIA 262, SIA 263: Material safeties for accidental design corrected (175003)

MAXIMA

WinMax

Bugfixes
- Task Superpositions: correction of the offered superposition values boundary forces in the case of a 2D shell system (173469)

MAXIMA

Bugfixes
- The mechanism for preventing overwriting of results, in case SUPP OPT S is used, has been improved. (173711)
- Corrected calculation of factors for permanent load cases that are considered individually (SUP PERC), when they belong in an prestress action or creep and shrinkage action with PART P. (173487)
- Correction for the use of actions (categories) Q_F, Q_G, Q_H - traffic loads for buildings simultaneously with the action L (174504)
Other Issues
- Improvements of TRAC. (173450)

PLBConverter

Features
- Add option to append to existing DOCX file (CADiNP: APPE).
- Export to DOCX is now compatible with SSD Command "All Reports".

Result Viewer

Features
- Shear reduction factor (= linear elastic/nonlinear lever) of beams is available. (172644)
- The non effectivity of reinforcement point is only shown, if the reinforcement is really non effectively. (Adapting to program AQUA, see, please, the input NEFF '-'R')
- Relative distances (0…1) to start of beams or design elements are displayed.
Bugfixes
- Signs of shear distribution of cross sections corrected. (171319)
- Number of rows and columns for the partitioning of pages were reversed after changes. (167895)
Other Issues
Changed behavior for incompatible result selection within one list object with adapted list view:

- A list object must now result in only one output table (.plb/.xlsx)
- When several results will be selected for a single list object, the program will try to automatically join the results to one single output table.
- A manually set join can also be used to provide one single output table.
- The adapted user interface points out when there is an incompatible result selection.
- Incompatible results can (if desired) be separated automatically into several list objects.
- PROG results: Incompatible results must be separated manually.
- By separating into several list objects the output will be the same as before.

SOFILOAD

Features
- Improvement of windprofiles and the wind generation for DOLFYN.
- Improvements for free loadings on excentric QUAD elements. For QUAD elements the excentricity within the element is now accounted for.
Bugfixes
- Span definition by placements did not account for rotations of supports in case of point loads. (174706)

SOFIMSHA

Features
- EXTR/LOFT: Interpolation of a non-uniform QUAD thickness across a 2D patch

SOFIMSHC

Bugfixes
- Fixed issue with slightly curved shells not being set up correctly. (174592)
- Fixed issue in calculating the arc length of alignment axis with elevation. (174280)
- Fixed issue in processing structural areas in subsequent SOFiMSHC input blocks. (173333)
- Allow special characters for the identifier of grid axes (172894)

SSD

General

Other Issues
- License Year 2021 is required.

General Tasks

Features
- Material concrete: new subdialog for the definition of explicit creep and shrinkage curves (corresponds to program AQUA record MEXT EIGC,EIGS)

Calculation of Concrete Columns

Bugfixes
- Column: The Task "Column Design" with the General Method evaluated only the unfavoured direction of imperfection from one column of a position. The unfavoured direction is not necessarily the unfavoured direction for all the other columns in the same position. The direction is evaluated individually for each column. (172615)

TALPA

Other Issues
- Improved automatic derivation of interface element strength.

Teddy

Bugfixes
- The backward search does not work correctly.
- Switching the module control did not work in the module tree. (172761)

Report Browser

Bugfixes
- Sometimes header lines were doubled. (172709)

Verification

Other Issues
- New Benchmark (BE57) : Response Spectrum Analysis of a simply supported beam

WinGraf

Features
- Sectional values of effective cross section are available. (174777)
- Shear reduction factor (= linear elastic/nonlinear lever) of beams is available. (172644)
- Properties and results of 'Storey Level' are available.
- Now the long texts of axes are used by default. But the symbol size of the axes is limited to 4 characters, for which there is a new input option at MOVE MARG < -100.
- WING input: Invalid representats will be corrected automatically by default. This correction can be switched off with the input 'CTRL REPR NO' (with warning) or 'CTRL REPR OFF' (without warning). The subsequent program behavior is controlled with 'CTRL EMPT'.
- There are two new fill colour palettes available for pre setting translucent RGB colours.
Bugfixes
- Sometimes wrong results and directions were calculated during comparisons of load cases (addition, difference, multiplication, division) for values with directions (eg. difference of nodal displacement vectors). (175455)
- It is possible to select only one node of a kinematic constraint for better clarity (NODE SELN) (169526,172142)
- Some utilisation levels (eg. VED/VRDmax) of design elements and external beam sections were not displayed. (172813)
- Sometimes the selection of element type (eg. node, element middle) was not offered for representation 'list'. (173216)
- Sometimes texts of punching were not displayed even if the minimum value was switched off. (174797)
- Bore profiles are moved if they have the same start point (0.0). This default distance between the profiles can be changed using the 'Explosion factor' slider. Missing values of layered bore pile added. (171483
- Sometimes iso areas were wrong.

- SOFiCAD and SOFiPLUS 2020 require AutoCAD 2020.
- SOFiSTiK Analysis + Design requires Revit 2020.
- The Rhinoceros Interface requires Rhino 6.
- SOFiPLUS-X does not require AutoCAD.
- The databases (cdb) created by the FEA programs are not compatible with those of the full version and vice versa.
- Our products are tested and released for Windows 8.1 (64bit) and 10.