What's New in STAAD.Pro 2007, Build 03 ( 8 July 2008)
- (A) Issues addressed in the Analysis/Design engine (48)
- (B) Issues addressed in the Pre-Processing Mode (40)
- (C) Issued Addressed in the Post-Processing Mode (11)
- (D) Issues Addressed in the Steel Design Mode (2)
- (E) Issues Addressed Concrete Design Mode (4)
- (F) Issues Addressed in the RAM Connection Mode (2)
- (G) Issues Addressed in the Advanced Slab Design Mode (1)
- (H) Issues Addressed in the Piping Mode (2)
- (I) Issues Addressed in the Editor, Viewer and other modules (1)
- (J) Issues Addressed in OpenSTAAD (1)
- (K) Issues Addressed with Printing (2)
- (L) Issues Addressed with licensing / security / installation (1)
(A) Issues addressed in the Analysis/Design engine (48)
1) The BS 5950:2000 steel code check has been updated so that the moment capacity value is better controlled using the TB parameter.
2) The BS 5950:2000 steel code check has been updated to include the CAN parameter to indicate members that are cantilevers for deflection checks.
3) The analysis engine has been updated to calculate the shear areas for wide flange sections with cover plates on the top and/or bottom.
4) The DIN 18800 steel design code check has been updated to ensure that the designs for groups of members correctly initialize all the required parameters.
5) The Eurocode 3 steel design checks have been updated to ensure that if a deflection check is to be performed by setting the TRACK parameter to 4, then the member forces are not also checked. This should be done with a separate code check.
6) The analysis engine has been updated to support User Section Tables that are located in a folder that requires a path defined such as :- START USER TABLE TABLE 1 "C:\My Documents\STAAD User Files\Example.upt" END
7) The analysis engine has been updated to better calculate the load distribution of floor loads on inclined planes. The command now uses the area of the plane rather than the projected area of the plane.
8) The BS 5950:2000 steel design code check has been updated to include a check that warns if a section being checked has been assigned with non-steel properties such as concrete in the analysis.
9) The NEN 6770 steel design code has been updated to ensure that the correct section classification is assigned to wide flange sections.
10) The BS 5950:2000 steel design code check has been improved when used with the SET Z UP command. In particular the values for effective shear modulus and the reported design shear ratios for major and minor axes were inverted.
11) The Eurocode 3 steel design check for angle sections has been updated with the slenderness reported about the principal axes as opposed to the geometric axes reported earlier.
12) The output of a BS 5950:2000 steel design code check has been updated to display the effective modulus as used in the design rather than simply an effective elastic or plastic property.
13) The DIN 18800 steel design code check has been updated to ensure that the shear areas are calculated correctly for tube sections.
14) The analysis engine has been updated to better accommodate data files that include references to sections that do not exist in the standard databases.
15) The analysis engine has been updated for Cable Analysis where temperature loading has been assigned to non-cable members will now be considered.
16) The AISC 360-05 steel design code has been updated to ensure that when the code check is run all parameters were set as required.
17) The analysis engine has been updated to handle UBC load specifications in models which include MEMBER TENSION commands.
18) The analysis engine has been updated to allow for MAT FOUNDATION commands to be used in conjunction with MULTI LINEAR springs defined in metric units.
19) The analysis engine has been updated to report the same principal stress angles for plates as is reported in the post processor and plate query dialog.
20) The output of an API code check has been update to reflect the code that it based on.
21) The BS 8110 shear wall design has been supplemented with the parameter TRACK. It can take a value of 0 for a summary in the output or 1 for a more detailed output.
22) The BS 5950:2000 steel design code check has been updated to ensure that there is no reduction in the value of py for load cases where the section is in pure tension.
23) The BS 5950:2000 steel design check has been updated to include a clause 4.9.3 check on members which have no axial force.
24) The BS5950:2000 steel design code has been updated to ensure that minor axis shear checks are included if a section is subject to minor axis bending only.
25) The AISC ASD now includes a check if h/tw of a beam exceeds 970/sqrt(Fy), if so the design on that beam stops and a message indicating this is written in the output file.
26) The BS 5950:2000 steel design check has been updated for box and circular hollow sections to ensure that the moment capacity checks are always performed.
27) The Eurocode 3 steel design output has been updated to ensure the correct shear areas are displayed for box and circular hollow sections.
28) The StaadName of the tube section TUB45453, in the American steel database has been corrected.
29) The analysis engine has been updated to better handle REPEAT LOAD commands when the data file contains a number of UNIT commands.
30) The IS 893 seismic calculations have been updated to ensure that the calculation of Ah = (Z/2)*(I/R)*(Sa/g)
31) The analysis engine has been update to ensure that both MEMBER TENSION and MEMBER INACTIVE commands are not used in the same file.
32) The AS 4100-1998 steel design code check has been updated to include better checks as per clause 5.1 Design for Bending Moment, 8.4.4 Out of Plane bending (both 8.4.4.1 Compression Members and 8.4.4.2 Tension Members). See the technical reference manual for more information.
33) The AISC ASD now includes a check to ensure that Qa (Effective area/Actual area) is not greater than 1. This value is used in equation E2-1 to reduce capacities of slender sections.
34) The AISC 360-05 steel design code check has been updated to improve the axial compression capacity calculation of user defined T sections.
35) The AISC 350-05 steel design code check has been updated to improve the calculation of the bending capacity of HSS rectangular sections with slender flanges.
36) The BS 5950:2000 steel code check has been updated to ensure that the automatic calculation of MX, MY and MLT parameters operate on members formed where the joint list has two or more nodes starting with the same number, e.g. 10 and 11 or 20 and 21
37) The AISC and Canadian design codes have been updated to support the design of Canadian HSS sections.
38) The Eurocode 3 steel design code output has been updated to correctly display the name of tube sections with the prefix TUB.
39) The AISC 360-05 design code check has been updated for angle sections such that the slenderness and section capacities are calculated based on the principal axes, unless AXIS parameter is set to 2.
40) The analysis engine has been updated to support all the physical member loading that can be defined in the GUI.
41) The BAEL 91 concrete design has been updated to show the correct code and version in the output file.
42) The EC3 routine for selecting sections using the SELECT OPTIMIZE has been improved and may result in identifying more efficiently utilised sections.
43) The ASIC LRFD steel code check has been updated to ensure that the interaction of torsion, shear, flexure and/or axial force is limited by the Equation 7.2-1 only when the torsional moment is greater than 0.01 kip-in.
44) The AISC ASD steel design code check has been updated for the MEMBER SELECTION design output not to output warnings of exceeding the allowable axial stress for all but the last section profile that is checked for each member.
45) The IS 13920 concrete design has been updated to improve the shear design of columns.
46) The AISC 360-05 steel design code has been updated to correctly account for the UNL parameter setting.
47) The BS 5950-Pt5 Cold formed steel section design has been updated to correct pipe section designs such that the moment capacity is calculated according to clause 5.2.2, Mc = p0 * elastic modulus.
48) The BS 5950:2000 steel design code check has been updated to include additional checks on members that are subject to axial tension and biaxial bending considering each axis independently.
(B) Issues addressed in the Pre-Processing Mode (40)
1) The GUI has been updated to better handle the undo action after using the Mirror tool.
2) The Translation Repeat graphical tool has been updated to include creating copies of joint loads that are part of the selection being generated.
3) The Canadian steel database has been updated with section properties in metric units.
4) The GUI has been updated to better handle the scaling of load icons using the mouse scroll wheel when the basic units are set as 'English' and the model has metric loading.
5) The geometry tool Generate-Rotate has been updated to better handle rotation of structures where the axis of rotation passes through the model.
6) The GUI has been updated so that the Geometry Cursor is better able to select surface objects
7) The GUI has been updated to ensure that when editing the parameters from a CP 65 concrete code definition, the values of MAXMAIN and MINMAIN select the values specified.
8) The GUI has been updated to display a description for the IS 800 design parameter THETA as 'Angle of inclination of lacings (between 40 70 degrees)
9) The GUI has been updated to improve the tool Geometry>Merge Selected Members' so that any uniform distributed member loading is re-defined on remain in the same location on the new single member.
10) The tool 'Check Duplicate>Nodes' has been updated such that if duplicate nodes are found and merged, then all the node loads on the merged nodes are retained. 11) The plastic section properties of the section profile HSST12x12x0.625 in American steel database has been updated
12) The 3D rendered view has been updated to better display plates with varying thicknesses.
13) The GUI has been updated to allow AISC N690 steel design parameters and commands to be assigned.
14) The new feature in the User Table for Angle Sections to calculate the radius of gyration about the principal axis added in STAAD.Pro 2007 Build 01 has been updated to account for the small values generated with very small angles.
15) The GUI has been updated to ensure that editing the initial location of a moving load defined in a load case does not cause the program to lock.
16) The GUI has been updated to ensure that the creation of an IBC 2006 seismic load definition will always contain sufficient data for it to be added to a primary load case.
17) The GUI has been updated to ensure that creating an SRSS load combination, the correct syntax is created in the data file using the minus as defined in the Technical Reference manual.
18) The GUI has been updated to better handle renumbering of plate elements.
19) The GUI has been updated to better recognise the steady state harmonic force input commands and not display them as errors while opening a file with valid commands.
20) The GUI has been improved in the method used for saving the data of solid (brick) elements.
21) The GUI has been updated to ensure the program does not freeze when trying to add the Buckling Analysis command from the main Command>Analysis menu.
22) The IBC 2006 option has been added to the menu Commands>Loading >definitions>Seismic Loading.
23) The tool in the menu Geometry>Connect Beams Along>X axis has been updated so as not to on occasion cause the GUI to crash.
24) The GUI has been updated to support user table names of up to 36 characters.
25) The GUI has been updated to support SGR parameter values of 3 and 4 for an EC3-BS specification.
26) The GUI has been updated so that the Member Specification dialog box, Partial Moment Release values can only be defined if the relevant option is selected.
27) The deletion of load cases in the GUI is a non undoable operation and will clear the undo list.
28) The Loads and Results sheet of the Diagrams dialog box has been updated to ensure that the Beam Forces, Axial, Intensity option of setting the No. of Values can only be modified if the option is selected.
29) The specification of a Pushover Definition in the GUI has been updated to include a integrity check of the Critical Damping to ensure that only positive values are entered.
30) The GUI has been updated to better handle the specification of offsets assigned to the ends of physical members.
31) The GUI has been updated with the menu item View>Structural Tooltips Options to include the unit of time for the delay setting.
32) The menu item Commands>Miscellaneous>Set Displacements has been updated to include the unit specification.
33) A menu item has been added for adding a Pushover Definition in the Modelling Mode menu, Commands>Loading>Definitions>Pushover…
34) The Support dialog box has been updated to allow multilinear support definitions to be assigned to nodes which have FIXED BUT supports already defined with a spring support.
35) The Seismic Definitions in the Loads dialog has been updated to ensure that all codes display the time unit for definitions of period.
36) The GUI has been updated to better handle the deletion of MEBER CABLE commands so that other instances of the command can be added without causing a problem with the GUI.
37) The GUI has been updated to support load combinations which include references of up to 500 primary load cases.
38) The geometry generation grid tools Snap Node/Beam, Snap Node/Plate and Snap Node/Solid have improved the import of grids from GRD and DXF files
39) The tool insertion of opening into surface objects has been updated to prevent causing the GUI to crash.
40) The undo procedure for replacing offset commands has been updated to ensure that if the command is retrieved, the appropriate units of the offset are also retrieved.
41) The Backup Manager has been updated to improve the option to scroll back to a previous saved version. This option now works with files that include spaces and / or stored in folders with spaces in the path.
(C) Issued Addressed in the Post-Processing Mode (11)
1) The Steel Design Check Ratio table in the Post Processing Mode has been updated to include the critical load case and the table rows can be sorted by the ratio by clicking on the Ratio column heading.
2) The Post Processing Mode has been updated to ensure that entering the Beam>Unity check Page does not occasionally cause the programme to crash
3) The simple query tool (Tools>SQL Query>Simple Query) that allows results to be searched, has been updated so that when a query in the solid stress table is defined and edited, the defined items are displayed in the query condition editor.
4) The Post Processing graphical view of plate contour maps has been updated to ensure that when load cases or views are changed, the diagrams are updated immediately to reflect this.
5) The member query dialog box has been updated to ensure that if post analysis, a modification has caused the analysis results to be deleted, then the Steel Design sheet, if present, is removed.
6) The Post Processing Mode has been updated to prevent access to model generation tools from the toolbar icons. These should only be accessed in the Modelling mode.
7) The Post Processing Mode has been updated to ensure that when a contour map of plate Global Moments is requested, if a valid set of results is available they will be displayed.
8) The Member Query dialog has been updated to correctly display the member section forces for Indian channel and T sections.
9) The Post Processing Mode has been updated to ensure that the Beam, Unity Check table displays the ratio for all the members designed in the last MEMBER CHECK or MEMBER SELECTION command.
10) The Post Processing Mode has been updated with a correction to the calculation in the menu item 'Report>Column Transfer Force'
11) The Post Processing Plate Centre Stress table has been updated to ensure that all calculated results are displayed.
(D) Issues Addressed in the Steel Design Mode (2)
1) The connection deign for IS 800 in the Steel Design Mode has been updated to improve shear connections for beam to beam connections.
2) The detailed output for design of members to BS 5950:2000 has been updated to include the correct label 'Moment of Inertia about Minor Axis' for Iyy.
(E) Issues Addressed Concrete Design Mode (4)
1) The Concrete Design Mode has been enhanced so that the graphics windows, tables and dialogs reflects the current Windows theme.
2) The Concrete Design Mode has been updated to ensure that only suitably defined prismatic sections can be added to design groups.
3) The Concrete Design Mode has been updated to ensure that valid results are available before trying to display them in the results table.
4) The Concrete Design Mode has been updated to ensure that if selecting the menu item 'Brief>Design Brief', the program first checks that the current design group has a valid design group defined before trying to open it.
(F) Issues Addressed in the RAM Connection Mode (2)
1) The RAM connection Mode has been enhanced to allow bracing members in braced connections to be defined with pipe or HSS sections.
2) The following confirms the limited range of 8 connection types that can be designed without access to a full RAM Connection license:- Basic DA BCF Bolted Basic DA BCF Welded Basic EP BCF Bolted Basic EP BCF Welded Basic DA BCW Welded Basic EP BCW Welded Basic SP BCF Basic SP BCW
(G) Issues Addressed in the Advanced Slab Design Mode (1)
1) The Advanced Slab mode has been updated to ensure that all the objects selected are included in the RAM Concept model.
(H) Issues Addressed in the Piping Mode (2)
1) The Piping Mode has been updated to correctly convert forces imported from an ADI file when the GUI is set up in metric units.
2) The Piping Mode has been updated to include the default file type *.ADI in the Open dialog.
(I) Issues Addressed in the Editor, Viewer and other modules (1)
1) The installation has included the files necessary to launch the online help from the Advanced Meshing application.
(J) Issues Addressed in OpenSTAAD (1)
1) The OpenSTAAD module has been updated to allow the example files to be used.
(K) Issues Addressed with Printing (2)
1) The User Report has been updated so that if any value is displayed in exponentional format, then the data is displayed with a + or - symbol between the E and exponent value, e.g. 1.2345E+06.
2) The User Report has been updated to ensure that if a steel design output is included, then the report includes the detail of the compression capacity.