1353322 - The analysis engine has been updated to
better handle situations where a modal analysis has been performed with a model that
results in the solver generating unreliable eigenvalues. Previously a warning was reported
that the eigenvalues were not in the right order and the analysis continued. As the
results are then dependent on these values being correct, the analysis now reports this as
an error and will terminate. The same suggested change of increasing the mode cut if
reported, although this may not solve the problem and may be down to a property of the
model itself. Note that this change was introduced in V2023 update 2 but was not included
in the Revision History .
1353310 - The analysis of models that include both
finite element plates and a response spectrum loading to IS 1893 has been updated to
account for a change that took place in STAAD.Pro 2023.00.02 in which plates which had
lateral releases (rather than rotational releases) assigned onto plates. This change
resulted in a modification in the way displacements were stored and thus would result in
the application crashing. This issue has now been addressed.
1352814 - The routine that calculates the values of
plate stress from a dynamic analysis has been updated to ensure that if the loading has
been set to include missing mass, then the effect of missing mass is included in the plate
stress calculations.
1350894 - The calculation of slenderness for single
angle profiles designed using the AISC 360 codes has been updated. In the AISC 360-16
design, profiles defined using the ST parameter would use KY and LY along with the radius
of gyration rz, when determining the slenderness for the Z axis and conversely use KZ and
LZ with ry when determining the slenderness in the Y axis. A similar issue has been
resolved with the AISC 360-05 and 10 codes where the buckling lengths LY and LZ were used
with the incorrect axes when determining the slenderness. This applied to members using
either the ST or RA parameter with the profile definition.
Analytical Workflow: (2)
1352925 - The method used in the Effective Length
Calculation tool provided in the steel design dialog for the analytical method, was not
correctly calculating the factors when the selected members are specified as braced.
1352267 - The introduction of the new Effective
Length Calculation Tool introduced in STAAD.Pro 2023 minor 2 also introduced a side effect
that the dialog displayed in the 'Add...' button is clicked in the Load & Definition
dialog. This dialog was failing to display the last two options of 'Define Combinations'
and 'Auto Load Combination'. This side effect has been trapped and all 4 options are now
available.
Physical Model Workflow: (1)
1351047 - The method used to generate the analytical
STD file has been updated to catch a situation where a region has been defined on a
surface, a load specified, but with zero magnitude. This action would cause the
application to crash.
Post Processing Workflow: (1)
1349022 - A defect was introduced in the
displacement diagrams routine of the 2023 minor 2 release that did not initialise a
required setting if the model did not contain any beam elements. This means that whilst
all the result values were reported, the displacement diagram would not display.
The Editor, Viewer and Other Modules: (1)
1350534 - The backstage section provided for QA&R
users to validate their installation against the separately supplied verification datasets
has been updated to better reflect the behaviour provided by the tool and address an issue
that would occur if the tool was operated before selecting a valid reference folder that
would cause the application to terminate.