Changes from AQB.

Calculation of Concrete Columns

The support conditions for fire design were not transferred correctly.

Thermal Analysis of Cross Sections

The units at different thermal parameters were not output correctly. (144385)

The term of the "central" lane was not clearly defined, it is now in the middle of the traffic area. (142938)

MAXIMA

Corrected default definition of GAMF with accidental combination. (142502)

NF EN1992-2004: Correction of alpha-cc for bridges according to NF EN 1992-2/NA 3.1.6 (101)P (142378)

Slab shear design France: vmin corrected according national annex clause 6.2.2(1). (143441)

Shear design Norway: value k2 for shear vrdc set to 0.15. (129057)

Shear design from STRE UL had problems with thinwalled steel sections. (142620)

Sometimes the calculation of an envelope of design cases do not worked correctly for material stresses of program AQB if more than one material or stress point were found. The request of more than one material or stress point (or time step) (=second loop) leads to an endless run if it was defined at the same time like the design case loop (=first loop). (140754,140844)

Text inserted by hand has doubled after an refresh of the PLB.

Calculation of Concrete Columns

In case of fire design, the intermediate reeinforcement were not considered.

Calculation of Footings

Taking into account the non-linear combinations are only combinations from the limit state of the bearing capacity of type (D). (140545)

Thermal Analysis of Cross Sections

Crash when activating the dialog for editing the parameters for a natural fire curve. (141824)

Torsional moment form block loadings taken from ELLA was not correct. (138918)

SSD Task 'Combination Rules': Correction of the number of alternative group from the action with categories SUP EXCL. (140968)

The springs lengths / distances were incorrect calculated. (141218)

Reduction of stiffness from ASE has been accounted for twice following the old convention. (140512)

The evaluation of load trains did bot work properly if the reference point was not inside the lane. (138643)

RSET, without any results have not been skipped properly for the modal superposition. (141501)

Punching: extraction of average slab thickness could be inaccurate in case vertical walls stood near singular punching nodes. (136493)

Bubble decks: on the design of multiple loadcases the bubble deck info was only applied in the first loadcase - corrected. (141173)

Circular reinforced concrete sections SCIT have not been designed for torsion at all. (140952)

Design for moderate tensile forces could yield a very high reinfocement grade. (141191)

Accelerated call-up of the individual PROG modules.

Switching to different paper sizes did not work properly. (139255)

Subdivision of Traffic area in 7 and more lanes had an error. (139500)

QUAD TYPE PRE has not been accepted for pretressed plate systems.

MAXIMA

Corrected output for spring elements. (138219)

NS EN1992-2004: action prestress P partial safety factors are corrected to GAMU 1.1 und GAMF 0.9 according to NS-EN 1992-1-1:2004/NA:2008 NA.2.4.2.2 (138604)

SOFiSTiK Interface for Rhinoceros

Display of local coordinate systems at points and lines.

Performance improvements in large systems. In systems with a large number of elements, the performance could be affected due to internal checks.

Kinematic Constraints from TREX had problems with warping degrees.

The orientation of unlimited shear cuts for flanges is now optimized relativ to the elastic center. (135191)

Strongly inclined shear cuts corrected. (138490)

Print of the utilisation of limit strains with NSTR has been reverse. (138174)

Stresses in the NEFF-Areas of composite sections have been improper. (137205,137752)

For the evaluation of the difference of longitudinal forces for the shear, tendons have been partially accounted for. (135191)

Text for exceeding the principal compression for DESI shear design enhanced. (134450)

Chinese language pack (SOFiPLUS, not SOFiPLUS-X).

Output language, page number and HEAD lines were new initialized during each changing of database. (136675)

Sometimes SIR forces and moments were not offered after a calculation in WinGraf.

Error message, if not all modules are read from large files. (136025)

In the module tree with complex labels, it was possible that the navigation was not correct. (136383)

In the case of a right-click in the module tree to execute the current module, an incorrect module may have been started.

For a CADINP input with a missing END, the calculation was repeated in a periodic loop.

Calculation of Concrete Columns

Partially the deformations were not printed completely.

Calculation of Footings

User defined safety factors for base failure and sliding were not considered. (136081)

Minor correction for the tolerances for LINE loadings. (137036)

For 7 or more lanes the sequence of the lanes was not as intended, if more than 300 mm residual area were defined. (136734)

Transformation error for the coherences in WGEN corrected. (133442)

MAXIMA

Fixed problem with storing unnecessarily long data records of resulting load cases to CDB. (136601,136760)

SUPP: Corrected input interpretation of ETYP P as a shortcut of PX,PY,PZ for nodes. (136622)

SOFiSTiK Structural Desktop

Support Wizard simplified.

Crash in loadcase manager solved.

Programming

Fixed typo in python example readnodes.py - node.mXYZ[0], node.mXYZ[1], node.mXYZ[2] (137032)

Cross-sectional material point reactions: Current strength (temperature dependent) of reinforcement did not work. (135824)

Print of the modal damping matrix was defect.

The AK-value and thus also the effective torsional perimeter are now obtained in a better way for concave sections. (137016)

Program could crash for older system, if sections without construction stage are used within a construction stage. (136787)

Minimum reinfocements STRE RL did not work for centric tension above the tensile strength. (135311)

Added missing files.

Systems with area elements and volume elements could led to a crash, eg. during drawing local extremal values at iso lines. (133866)

The averaging of spring forces along nodal sequences was not written in the GRA file. (134703)

A negative Iyz was not shown. (134722)

In some situations the page break was not recognized correctly and this caused a crash. (135181)

Printing two consecutive << or >> characters did not work.

Problem with synchronizing the module tree when displaying the last pag.

Memory assertion in determining the dimensions of cross sections in tendon plots fixed. (134728)

Calculation of Concrete Columns

Error in assuming the boundary conditions for the fire design.

Calculation of Footings

The groundwater level sometimes was not set correctly in the case of a Base Failure. (135141)

The fac crashed for many free LINE loads on fragmented structural lines. (135295)

Program crashed for many free LINE loads on fragmented structural lines. (133966)

Horizontal loadings created from distributed wheel loadings of a load train via COPY had some undefined load values. (133000)

Updated example files, updated manual.

MAXIMA

Corrected output for superpositions according to Objective Functions / Stress Points at cross sections. (134892)

Corrected supperposition according to QUAD TYPE SX, SY, SXY.

SOFiSTiK Structural Desktop

Safety factor of stress-strain curves with temperature corrected to 1.0. (135183)

Fixed a bug in manually entered work laws. (134427)

Programming

Bug in \vba\readnodes\readnodes.xlsm is fixed ("arr200" variable is replaced with with "arr20_0")

Sometimes torsional stirrup reinforcement was not available for some layers. (134002)

The "Equivalent plastic strain in cross section" of material together with reinforcement was wrong. (133896)

Sometimes the "supported nodes" were wrong.

ELLA performs a normalization of the spring directions. (135140)

Loading of LM3 will be now applied with the characteristic value in GR5. The current workflow was to cumbersome. (134698)

Defining for PSOL only a value for P5 loaded only the spare area outside the lane. (134151)

Improvements for the Newton steps for convoy loadings. (133640)

Programm did not stop. (134929)

Improvements fro CONT. (132854)

Problems solved no creep with AQB in case elements with the lowest group number do not creep from the beginning (134936)

Crack width design EN-1992-1-1 (not for DIN-EN): depending on the bar distance now equation 7.11 or 7.14 is used for sr-max. This often give smaller crack width for weak reinforced sections. Up to now only 7.11 was used. The bar distance is extracted from the area of one bar devided by the actual reinforcement as. (134720)

Punching: wall corners at straight boundaries are no longer taken as punching nodes. (133409)

Shear design Norway: factor k2 changed from 0.18 to 0.15 for NEN-EN-1992-1-1 6.2.2 (133409)

Boundary springs from SOFIPLUS with nonlinear bedding: on input CRAC 0, the transverse spring must fall out in case of cracked main spring - corrected. (134841)

Endless calculation on creep and shrinkage with MLAY quad layerelements corrected. (134943)

Problem with membrane elements and GRP FACS 0.01 in a linear analysis corrected. (135037)

On TH3 very short coupling springs (length < 0.001*systemlength) were set to remain direction true - disestablished. (135111)

Input of material number in record LAY had no effect. (133782)

The crack width according to the national annexe of EN 1992-1-1 for Sweden has been implemented. (133348)

The limit of construction stages is limited to 99, this will be checked now in more detail. (132104)

Global utilisation factor for dynamic sway stress could be dependent on the ECHO Level. (135277)

Converting longutidinal and transverse forces to the elastic center line with biaxial bending the inclination in y has been applied to Vz. (135162)

The torsional component of the shear links is no saved with an other scheme. Changes of SP-9 (WICE 128436) are thus reverted in general. The torsional component will not be taken higher than the total reinforcement. (133817,134085)

The robustness moment Mcr for the DIN Fachbericht 2009 has been calculated with fct,m instead of fct,0.05. (133405)

Möglichen Absturz in symmetrischen Systemen korrigiert.

Problem with missing apply files.

Selection of volume elements could led to a crash in case of usage a secondary group. (132353)

Single selection of (QUAD) elements was wrong in case of selection via the node number.

Memory assertion in generation of tendon plots fixed. (132007)

Bugfix in assignment of tendons to quadelements. In some cases, tendons have not been assigned to quad elements. (131537)

After the command Ctrl+O C the module tree was not updated.

In the calculation window (WPS), the "Append results" checkbox has been removed. (133039)

Analysis tasks

The calculation of the combined load cases with non-linear stiffness now is accomplished in separate PROG ASE calculations.

Calculation of Concrete Columns

Subsequent conversion of the boundary conditions for the fire design did not work. (132727)

Accuracy problem with a beam cut comparison. (132727)

Thermal Analysis of Cross Sections

The visualization of the flamed edges was partly incorrect. (132938)

Bugfix in data export of structural areas defined by SARR. (131931)

Parameter of the vertical response spectrum according DIN were not correct. (131583)

Brake loading for load trains HB and NB augmented by the contributin of the HA loading. (131458)

BS 5400: Country code Israel added

General functionality

Removed link to FAQ.

SOFiSTiK Interface for Rhinoceros

Performance improvements in visualization of support symbols

The sign of shear stress along panels at cross sections was not the same as in program AQB. (131749)

Sometimes the group selection was not correct when the already opened database has been modified. (132281)

Results of the result sets have not been properly safed for a re-analysis. (129615)

Primary and secondary effect of prestress in construction stages now also on incremental launching systems (130642)

Lack of clarity corrected with new input check on usage of LC TYPE SL (short time load). LC TYPE SL only allowed with ATIL=ICS1. (131348)

DIN-Fachbericht 102-2009 bridge class B: decompressioncheck corrected to frequent combination.

Fatigue check: fcd-fat adapted for EN-Sweden. (132034)

Shear design light concrete: limit of cot Teta to 2.0 did not work properly - corrected. (132839)

Quad tendons: wrong error message -483 corrected (tendons outside quads). (132747)

Dead load for BRIC tetraeder under water level corrected. (132471)

Wrong error message 13 corrected on nonlinear quads NMAT YES and additional group setting GRP LINE. (133503)

Consideration of the direction of thin-walled elements for the resultant stress in stress points. (131749)

Correction of the algorithm for the meshing of a FE cross section. (131958)

Consideration of the direction of thin-walled elements for the resultant stress in stress points. (131749)

Problem with missing include files.

The list output was wrong for 'SIZE ... FORM STAN / ZTVK'.

Load distribution areas (LAR) showed sometimes a wrong local z direction.

Design Code Benchmark Examples

Typo at writing the class of prestressing steel (Y 1170 -> Y 1770).

Fixed visualization issue in elevation plot of tendons. (126037)

Missing include files are only taken into account when parsing, if they are before the current line.

After an error with the CADINP parsing an incorrect CDB name was generated in special cases.

CSG-Mode

Suppress printout of parameters of unreferenced groups. (130499)

Elements

Implicit hinges: Robustness of plastic iteration corrected. (130467)

Changes from AQB.

When an empty group was deleted, the data of the following groups were also deleted. (130375)

Missing include files are only taken into account when parsing, if they are before the current task.

Calculation of Concrete Columns

Internal memory overflow if more than 10 beam sections. (130753)

The report of the creep deformations was not correct. (129861)

Calculation of Footings

Signed error in loads for bending design. (131118)

Bugfix in generation of boundary hinges on NURBS surfaces. (131423)

Tolerance settings used for intersection of two geometric areas changed. In some cases the intersection of two areas failed due to relatively strict internal tolerance settings. (130677)

Bugfix in storing nodal sequences along structural lines in cdb. The bugfix solves a problem with multiple assignments of loads on structural lines. (130191)

Bugfix in generating subsystems. Elliptical openings or other freeform curves have not been exported correctly when generating a flat 2D subsystem.

The default type of arbitrary sections in program AQUA has changed. In the case, that in AQUA no beam type has been set in record SECT at parameter BTYP, now an excentric beam (BTYP BEAM) is assumed. This can influence the alignment of generated beams in SOFiMSHC, if the alignment of the beams is not further specified in record SLN at parameter SDIV.

Possible program crash for loading on overlapping lines resolved. (131010)

More than 63 definitions for a LANE triggered overlapping lane definitions. (129191)

local coordinates of duplicate structural lines could be mixed up for LINE SLN loading on an explicit line. (128553)

Problems with the definition of user defined wind spectra resolved.

Possible crash during initializing of beams.

MAXIMA

Corrected computation of bedding components of plane elements (QBED). (131550)

Corrected computation of SRSS superposition. (130978)

Fixed error in printout of Factors. (129377)

Do not consider a leading action for COMB EXTR EARQ / PERM in the case of use of load groups. (129273)

SOFiSTiK Structural Desktop

Task Nonlinear Analysis in ULS: Possible crash resolved. (130067)

SOFiSTiK Interface for Rhinoceros

Visualization of support conditions on points, curves and surfaces

Bugfixes in visualization of sections (e.g. sections aligned to other elements)

The group information were wrong in the dialogue. (129976,130213)

Sometimes stresses were not displayed missing at construction stages of cross sections. (126992,130475)

The combination factors specified with the load train are now used also for the load groups. (129615)

QUAD plate shear in nodes has not been safed properly. (130193)

Improvements fro CONT. (129918,130078)

WPS program start problem in case the highest CS stage number is just 99 - corrected. (129484)

Actin earth pressure R was not taken into account in creep and shrinkage - corrected. (130057)

Comparison loadcases cast in one (CTRL CAST): group settings corrected for couplings. (130239)

Input checks for fatigue check improved. (128836)

Punching: openings near corner or boundary columns are now better checked in the analysis of the critical perimeter. (130170)

Punching activated on supported end ob beam elements in a 2D slab analysis. (130758)

Fatigue concrete shear check improved near supports. (130384)

Implicit hinges: Robustness of plastic iteration corrected. (130467)

Cables: accuracy improved on analysis of inner cable sagging.
Analysis of effective cable E-moduls see geometricnonl\cableunstressed_length.dat

Quad tendons: analysis of tendon relaxation in creep and shrinkage corrected (was a little bit inaccurate) (129383)

Creep and shrinkage: the use of CSM SL construction stages with short term loading had an unwanted impact on the creep analysis of quad and spring elements - corrected. (129485)

Halfspace: creep and shrinkage did not act on halfspace - corrected.

Moving Springs: check of Raleigh damping in GRP RADA-RADB improved (must be 0.0 for Moving Springs). (129972)

Bubble deck layer slabs: problems on anaylsis of multiple nonlinear loadcases in one ASE run corrected. (130455)

Nonlinear quad concrete material: crack width output improved for CSM creep and shrinkage analysis
(without change of forces and deformations) (130721)

Nonlinear quad concrete material: convergence improved in cracked creep and shrinkage (without big changes on forces and deformations)

(131046)

Adoption of material parameters for timber to the latest EN-design codes (2016).

IMPO ADD created improper messages. (131136)

Plastic forces and moments were sometimes corretected to the elastic ones. (131036)

Plastic forces and moments were printed for timber. (128884)

The default type of arbitrary sections were not set as described in the manual (SECT BTYP BEAM). (129532)

STRE RL used limit stresses for reinforcements and tendons. (131191)

For the limitation of the internal lever with CNOM a diamter of 28 has been taken for missing layers. (130808)

For combined forces the primary torsional moment has been used instead of the total moment for printing and DESI or NSTR. But the calculated stresses were correctly evaluated. (130415)

Shear stress in NEFF plates caued by transverse shear has not been calculated properly. (130334)

Establishing the strain limits, non effective parts have also been accounted for. (129068)

Information of couplings was sometimes wrong. (129893)

Information of trusses was sometimes wrong.

Communication with Wingraf corrected. (128659)

Aborting an ASE iteration did not work.

BRIC surfaces had sometimes a wrong transformation. (126119)

The command 'Structural nodes'-'local directions' shows sometimes invalid points. (128643)

The command 'Show all' (switching off all selections) has used all layers, even if 'Selection by Layer' was set.

Problem with missing text lines solved.

SSD could crash after deleting a selected block.

Fix regarding computation of support reactions. Only systems involving beam hinges were possibly affected. (128094,128875)

Changes from AQB. (125034)

In the context of APPLY the setting of the +/- control in the module tree did not work correctly.

Projection of POIN on beam groups did not work properly. (128794)

AREA loading with a single coordinate definition trigger now an error message. (128793)

WGEN LCOH definitions have been ignored. (126595)

MAXIMA

Skip also following load cases, if main load case is skipped. (127852)

Corrected missing output values.

SOFiSTiK Structural Desktop

Task Revit: Support for Revit 2017.

Task Design parameters: Problems with 3 layers solved. (127659)

SOFiPLUS

Correction when saving shear cuts. (128257)

Post run: storage of bric system corrected. (128172,127239)

Wrong spring directions were displayed. (127653)

The commands "Show selection" and "Hide selection" partly did not work when there were changed unit settings for columns.

Within the SSD, copying the current selection to the clipboard partly did not worked.

For train-bridge interaction problems the train velocity and forces were not correctly applied for those nodes of the train with a negative nodal reference. (127309)

GRP HING did not work any more. (126532)

Nonlinear pure damper elements had spurious residual forces. (123963)

Helix-Torsional moment has not been calculated properly.

The safety factors for long term deformations according EN 1992-2 B.105 can be now activated. For DIN EN1992 with class B,C,D the German NA activates the factors for drying shrinkage automatically. With CTRL EIGE V2 SAFE V3 0:3 kann die Option 0:3 aus AQB STEU EIGE SAFE gesetzt werden. (127846)

Creep- and shrinkageparameter: on pure input DEPS GRP RH: analysis of creep values in AQB with this humidity (127936)

Creep- and shrinkageparameter: on pure input DEPS GRP RH: analysis of creep values in AQB with this humidity (127936)

Punching: reduction of dead load corrected (was inaccurate for extreme column size) (127184)

Seldom acting non relevant error message -3 in BPR1 corrected (127721)

On input ctrl beta 3 nevertheless the loadcase with the highest VZ*beta was taken - corrected. (128303)

Punching at wall ends: program exception corrected. (128602)

Britisch Standard BS EN-1992-1-1: alpha-cc set to 1.00 for punching and shear design. (128817)

Concrete compression check: in case of pure disc exposure sometimes the program switched to CTRL PFAI 2 and just converted the force not possible on the concrete into compression reinforcement - corrected. (128962)

German DIN-Fachbericht 102: design and punching check according DIN 1045-1 and not EN-1992-1-1.

Warping torsion: storage of MT3 (torsional moment from twisted normal stresses) activated also in linear analysis. (127907)

Cable elements: Correction on SYST PROB NONL (TH3 was correct) for activation of a cable in a later construction stage and compression failure and restressing of a cable (128353)

Time step dynamic: exponential damping of spring elements corrected (only in case of Crisfield iteration) (127762)

VOLU membrane air volume: without material input in VOLU the temperature expansion was too small - corrected. (128048)

Halfspace analysis with HASE: problems in connection with beam hinges solved.

Membrane analysis with wrinkles: convergence improved.

As the DIN Fachberichte have been published as interim solutiones before the introduction of the eurocodes, but cite the old DIN-standards explicitly, there are different opinions about the correct usage. Thus it is recommendes to select explicitly CDIN or C_EN for the concrete. A definition of TYPE C will now trigger a warning. (128502)

The interpolation of cross sections were sometimes wrong. (129189)

For circular sections no values for Ak have been saved.

The safety factors for long term deformations according EN 1992-2 B.105 can be now activated. For DIN EN1992 with class B,C,D the German NA activates the factors for drying shrinkage automatically. (127846)

Improvemen of the biaxial interaction for STRE C. (128827)

Maximum shear link area for torsion is only updated if the total reinforcement is relevant. (128436)

Saving sway stresses for STRE did not work correctly. (127310)

Stresses for termporary elements have not been evaluated. (126992)

Release after quality assurance.

Change of the CDB in the WPS dialog did not work correctly. (126948)

Cuts at BRIC surfaces could led to a crash when they hit a node. (126119)

The MAXIMA load cases of signed shear forces of QUAD nodes were not offered anymore. (126308)

Variable colours of vectors has always set the variable colour of texts. The variable colour of text can be set sparately via 'symbol+colour' with 'Various Text-Colour foreground'. (126633)

Boundary support springs were not shown together with couplings. (126751)

WING input, record DGRP: The input of a new result group DGRP could led to a crash.

Undefined spring results could run in an endless loop during representation 'along nodal sequence'. Support spring results related on area were offered as 'distributed on' instaed of 'along' nodal sequences. Spring moments related on area were missed.

Text colour of maximum values was sometimes wrong.

More clearly description of thurst lines. (126182)

Design Code Benchmark Examples

New EN Design Code Example No. 24: Design of Quad Elements for Bending acc. Baumann Method

When pictures with caption was reduced, no space was left free for the caption.

The syntax highlighting of the CADINP keywords was not always correctly recognized after $PROG.

Crash when deleting backwards the first word in first the line.

Elements

Fiber Beam: Extension for consistent processing of GRP ... FACL for cross-sectional fibers.

Revision of +/- module control.

The project tree was sometimes not updated.

The start of a calculation was not correct if the start of the task tree was in the scrolled area.

The module tree was not built correctly after an empty group.

Analysis tasks

Task "Loadcase Combination Manager": Imported bearing loads were not offered. (124938)

Calculation of Concrete Columns

COLUMN-X: For a non-symmetrical reinforcement is printed a warning. (126526)

Calculation of Footings

Combinations without a G load case caused an error. (124019)

Accuracy improved in calculating the reference area of springs generated along curved structural lines (e.g. NURBS-Curve).

Error in aligning boundary hinges in case of curved surface boundaries fixed.

Error in generating interface layers at boundary edges fixed.

Deductional loads for load trains (e.g. UIC, HB, SLW) the height of the gravity line has also been taken negative. Thus for centrifugal loadings the values have not been deducted. (126025)

Creep loading has not been calculated properly for skewed bending. (126013)

Evaluation of LM1 with LM3 improved for ELLA. The position of the LM1 is now selected with DIR R and L. (123939)

Concept of LM1 at LM3 reworked according of frequent values. Factors will be applied at evaluation as GR5, please redefine the LM3 load trains. An excentricity has been applied unintendedly to the UDL and TS loading.

MAXIMA

Corrected missing / invalid output values. (125346)

Fixed crash. (124019,126746)

SIA 262, SIA 263, SIA 265: Modification of the factors for the action R including the categories A and W according to SIA 260 (125578)

S EN1992-2004: At the actions the definition for the classes of the bridges for B1,B2,B3 was not correct, so that the load groups GR was not available as default.

OEN EN1992-2004, OEN EN 1993-2005: Factors alpha are modified to 1.0 for bridges load model 1 Tandem system (127435)

SOFiSTiK Text Editor

Possible crash when removing the URS numbers.

*CDB2Excel *

Password protection is removed

Post run: storage of bric system results accelerated.

Shearstresses in PANE/WALL with NEFF have been calculated improperly. (124414)

The maximum number of materials per cross section was not checked. Wrong results or crashes could occurred if the number was higher then 16 materials. The maximum number is increased now up to 32. (127063)

Texts have been sorted improperly.

In the load groups 2 and 5 no loading is defined on the pathway. But as these areas are associated to the general residual loadings a single factro can not be used. The default is now to use the same factor as for the UDL, a factor 0.0 is applied only for a convoluting lane 0. (122852)

Designations of LPOS grafics were improper in the Table of Content. (126495)

Deductional loads for load trains (e.g. UIC, HB, SLW) the height of the gravity line has also been taken negative. Thus for centrifugal loadings the values have not been deducted. @bug wice=123939 Evaluation of LM1 with LM3 improved (see SOFILOAD). (126025)

For HIST it is now possible to define at LIM1/LIM2 the literals MEAN and SDEV for mean value and standard deviation.

Control file _csmlf.dat made save due to AQB input BEAM CS AUTO.

Punching on thick foundation slabs: calculation of punching load improved in case of many columns with small distance. (125504)

Punching on thick foundation slabs: special german formula added: german NDP to DIN-EN-1992-1-1 6.2.2 (1): vmin reduced for thick slabs (125966)

Punching: special german formula added: german NCI to DIN-EN-1992-1-1 6.4.5 (4)

Punching on foundation slabs: for the minimum bending moments only the soil pressure directly under the column is taken into account. (125966)

Punching: on input DUST RO_L>ROV now the maximum of ROL and ROV is used to decide if links are necessary. Usually ROV should be greater than RO_L. (126234)

Shear link stress range: according to EN 1992-1-1 6.8.2(3) (6.65) now the square route of the strut inclination is used. (125679)

Design with quad tendons: very small systems with only few nodes did not run - solved.
At nodes in some cases too much tendon reduction was used. (126376)

Reduction of shear near supports: also beam web width reactivated as direct support (was deactivated) (127059)

Wrong error message corrected for fire loads. (125286)

Hyperelastic spring work laws with TYPE HYPE did not recognize nonlinear effect in every case - corrected.
Furthermore plastic transverse springs improved on unloading and loading in another direction. (124698)

Quads on fire: step by step temperature loading on quad tendons corrected. (125629)

Rounding results at singular punching nodes in a nonlinear quad concrete analysis: error message corrected at coupled punching nodes. (126368)

Secondary groups: in a nonlinear analysis, the input GRP 'a1' FACS 0.01 did not reach cable elements - corrected.
In case of multiple ASE-runs in one PROG ASE the secondary group switching did not work properly - corrected. (126105)

In CSM stage analysis now no more quad inplane stiffness is set using CTRL CANT >0. (126410)

In mixed systems with ortotropic (CTRL QEMX) and isotropic slabs the tendon stiffness was not activated in the isotropic quads - corrected. (126799)

Shear forces in the T beam philosophy:
- The shear stiffness of the equivalent beam is no longer reduced as it only comes from the web part

- In the post analysis the quad shear forces are only taken into account with the webwidth+4*slab-thickness
(at the start/end of a girder only webwidth+2*slab-thickness) (126545)

Shearstresses in PANE/WALL with NEFF have been saved improperly. (124414)

Crash for shar design with construction stages resolved. (127290)

For truss elements no utilisation of the buckling has been saved. (126319)

Sectional class for BAR/BARQ sections were not calculated at all. (124254,124296)

Infinite utilisations have been calculated for deactivated materials.

Minimum reinforcement AM4 has not been applied for walls.

Plastic design STRE C did not work with fully tensioned sections.

For some locations in the DESI shear design the maximum torsional stress has been used instead of the mean torsional stress. Especially the print showed this value.

Sometimes the system was not updated when running within SSD.

Release after quality assurance.

The "relative compressive zone" of fiber beams from TALPA is shown as factor (instead of mm). (124557)

Cross section class 4 was sometimes shown instead of 3. (124975)

GRA output, record LC: The load case number (LC NO) was set to '-1' if a design case range was defined. (124296)

Colour of page boundaries could not be changed via dialogue 'Page Setup'.

SIRSCHN output: Some blank character were missed between the item names. (124551)

Local beam transformation was wrong during 'deformed structure' in a plane system.

GRA input, record LC: The designations of design cases could not be changed anymore.

Cutting pattern at deformed structure was sometimes wrong.

Centering a text in a table was incorrect.

Storage of unstressed areas activated for analysis without loadcase but with compensation (123302)

Examples and manual improved.

Possible crash when removing the URS numbers.

ECHO FULL EXTR in connection with system type plane stress triggered spurious error message.

The spring stiffness were not correctly transferred to CADINP. (125077)

The unit for the elastic support moment was displayed incorrectly. (123494)

In task fire design the intermediate reinforcement were not used properly. (123442)

Analysis tasks

Task "Steel - Buckling Resistance of Members" : the decisive buckling utilisation was not displayed for all structural elements. (122043)

Problems solved when copying wind loading. (122949)

The frequent load values of LM1 (P4) for LM3 have been multiplied with psi1=0.0, if the load case had no action assigned. (122852)

Units will be written for output of AQUA and AQB. (124722)

Fixed a bug that resulted in a crash for converting a worklaw into a symmetric worklaw.

SOFiSTiK Interface for Rhinoceros

Rhino layers will not be exported as SOFiSTiK groups by default any more.

Database locking problems resulting from failure or exit of calculations in SSD / Teddy fixed.

FE intermediate points were not considered during representation of shear stress. (124857)

Cross section class 4 was sometimes shown instead of 3. (124975)

GRP GRU did not work for the LM3. (123756)

MASS did not work with load cases without an assigned action. (123425)

After the run of statically determined prestress now a run with the group settings of the final stage is added to provide the final stiffness matrix for a possible following ELLA. (124041)

CSM DESI: Check of minimum reinforcement according EN 1992 7.3.2 changed to rare combination on 1.0 prestress. (124054)

CSM DESI: use of free actions activated for accidential design. (124243)

Wrong error message error 337 corrected (load type on LC ATIL input) (124493)

Calculations with tendon removal TENDON ICS3 optimized. (126809)

Punching: over coupled walls witjh wall material brick no punching was done - corrected. (123562)

In special cases not necessary quad inplane stiffness were used - corrected. (124175,124271)

On copying support forces with SOFILOAD-COPY problems occured on slabs with reaction forces 1E-12 kN - corrected. (124102)

QUAD settlement loads QUAD TYPE wz extended for loadincrease with DPX DPY. (124434)

Timestep analysis STEP: support reactions were not totally correct using stiffness proportional damping RADB (116497)

QUAD tendons: problems on kinks of quads in prestressed vessels corrected. (125172)

Material nonlinear cables could not be combined with material nonlinear beams (NSTR) - corrected. (125026)

Design forces an moments were sometimes wrong. (124284)

Improvements for the Nachrechnungsrichtlinie.

Sectional class for tube sections was not calculated on time. (124254,124296)

The stress strain law for high strength concrete according EN has not been properly reinitialized. A slightly higer capacity has been used in the middle strain range.

Coupling of two points were sometimes not drawn.

Release after quality assurance.

IMPORTANT The SOFiPLUS(-X) DWG file format has changed with this service pack! Drawings from earlier versions can be used, as usual. Drawings saved with this version cannot be opened in earlier versions of SOFiPLUS(-X).

According to a calculation of a single module started with a right click in Teddy module tree it happened that the start button in the PS window was grayed and could not be reactivated.

Free single load (moment) had a wrong unit. (123029)

Sometimes the checking of 'nonlinear QUAD results' took too long. (123420)

The representation 'fill of area edge' was sometimes wrong. (123357)

Text 'Utilisation level' was missed in the picture head line.

The reload of databases was sometimes wrong.

In a split window an refresh of the PLB has crashed.

The switching of the errors and warnings does not work reliably. (122588)

Supplemented various Fortran keywords.

While opening the WPS window a PROG setting within included files was not set to -PROG.

After a CADINP error message in case of a calculation sometimes the edit mode in SSD has not been activated again.

Analysis tasks

In the task CSM stage numbers greater than 1000 were not found automatically. (122496)

More improvements of the load application of AREA.

Load trains SW and SW/2 were defect since version 16.24. (123429)

The frequent load values of LM1 (P4) for LM3 have not been multiplied with psi1 any more. (122852)

For LINE loadings on partial edges, a faulty load length has been taken sometimes. (122273)

The printed sum of the loadings was not correct for wind and wave loading.

Invalid cross section numbers are checked now. (122669)

MAXIMA

Suppress false warning message No. 18 for nonlinear load cases with COMB EXTR NONL. (121529)

WinMax

SSD Task 'Combination Rules': Revision during processing of follow-up load cases. (123142)

DIN FB103-2009, DIN FB103-2003, DIN FB104-2003: Safety factors for actions LU, LT modified (122617)

Syntax errors corrected: NBN EN1992-2004 and NBN EN1993-2005 boxed value GAMS for bridges, NS EN1992-2003 building class A4 for permissable strains was not available, S EN1992-2004 boxed value ALF-CC for bridges and permissable strains for buildings

SOFiSTiK Text Editor

Spelling correction. (123045)

SOFiSTiK Program Start

Spelling correction. (123045)

SOFiSTiK Result Browser

Spelling correction. (123045)

SOFiSTiK Structural Desktop

Spelling correction. (123045)

Post run: storage of settlement in higher depth corrected in case of parallel bric system generation. (122544)

Reinforcement partly visualized at a wrong location.

The command "Convert filter to selection" partly selected wrong rows."

CSM design: superposition for wind with traffic and wind without traffic activated for EN codes see example csm.dat\englisch\design\csm35_wind.dat

CSM design: check of stress in reinforcement changed from NSTR CHKS to NSTR CHKR (AQB-NSTR) (122228)

CSM design: keep Report Browser settings (.urs enumeration corrected in _desi.dat file) (122836)

CSM design: usage of traffic in earthquake superposition corrected

Punching: using BEMESS-SELE input, in special cases a wrong column size could be set for the first SELE node - corrected. (122040)

Minimum reinforcement on walls (SYST FRAME) according to EN 1992-1-1 9.7(1) corrected. (122078)

Shear near supports: on bottom slabs now also a wall over the slab is taken as a direct support condition (CTRL BOUN) (122515)

Correction regarding free point load. (123452)

Beam element: inserting an single load inside a beam caused problems in case the primary load case had no single load - solved. (122251,122409)

Creep quadelements via CSM CREEP RCRE: the new 'real creep' did not work properly in case a quad element with high groupnumber was inserted one stage before a quad element with lower group number - corrected. (121677)

Ortotropic slabs: problems on GRP2 QUEX solved. (121701)

The combination of BRED and BMAX did not work for the shear cut definition.

With a load case selection with an action at NO instead of TYPE, the action has been deleted sometimes. (123036)

SPAN DG did not work properly if section numbers were missing. Orint of SH and L shapes was not correct. (123027)

Utilisation for interaction of V+T for timber structures was not always correct in the summary. (122586)

Utilisation for shear links for CTRL REIN FIX corrected. (122396)

Systems with more than 1 million nodes were not visualized.

If multiple MDI windows opened, also the main window was closed after a quick start.

When starting the calculation in connection with the SSD the internal SSD mechanisms were not activated correctly.

Display window for the module time enlarged.

Poisson’s ratio of volume elements is available. (111765)

The coordinates of extremal values were sometimes wrong during the representation of iso lines with Gauss point results. (120928)

The yield function value at QUAD element middle was wrong. (121457)

The elastic modulus of volume elements is displayed now in global Z direction. (111765)

The redefining of fill pattern worked sometimes not correctly. (120577)

GRA input, record DEFO: Projection of structural area worked sometimes incorrect. (120587)

GRA output, record LC: The output of differneces and factors were wrong if more than one load case was defined. (121812)

Crack width of prescribed reinforcement of QUADs was not displayed for the directions. (120696)

Selection (of groups) was not considered during calculation of results "distributed at nodal sequence". Vectorial results in exact opposite direction were not summarized. (121960)

Reference area of springs was not available anymore.

Structural lines without connection to the FE system were not displayed.

The writing of SIR files or TEXTILE files did not work if the language German or English was not set.

Info "Decisive design check" for QUAD elements adapted to the program BEMESS.

Plate shear force can be displayed as vector.

Compatibility release for version year 2017.

When rotated pictures in graphics mode was exported, the calculation of the image size was wrong. (121675)

The view regarding black/white printing was also activated, when any dialog has been opened.

Compatibility release for version year 2017.

Compatibility release for version year 2017.

Performance problems in calculating prestress forces in large systems fixed.

Mark a block with using the shift key and the cursor keys had led after a mouse action to unpleasant side effects sometimes.

Subsequent improvement: Bug while error detection of a macro function. (120719)

In some situations, element group factors (GRP) were not taken into account, correctly. Affected were only systems featuring secondary group definitions, but independent of their actual use for computation control. (121025)

Compatibility release for version year 2017.

The animator will reactivated after clean up locks.

When archiving, it could happen that various PLB files were listed twice. (120260)

Calculation of Concrete Columns

Dialog for parameterized natural fire curve according to DIN EN 1991-1-2 / NA added.

The maximum effective length according to the method A is limited for circular cross-sections to 2.50 m.

The minimum dimensions in the simplified procedure in Method A for high-strength concrete have been enlarged.

Calculation of Footings

The display of spot elevation from top edge and lower edge of foundation was wrong. (121717)

The material numbers for concrete respectively reinforcement were not applied correctly in conncetion with Revit. (120269)

The stress factor of Soil Profile was not applied. (120543)

Use predefined reinforcement for column connection. (119607)

When extracting subsystems using XSUB, designations of supporting columns and walls will be transferred to the new system. (120342)

Group designations given in GRP have not been processed correctly.

EXPO DOLG: Corrected export of models containing unused nodes.

EXTR/INTF/LOFT/UMSH: Improved computation time and memory requirements.

EXPO DOLG: Improved computation time and memory requirements.

Considerable improvements of the load application of AREA.

Export of free loadings with PROJ N and WIDE definition was incomplete. (121356)

FE cross sections were read wrong. (122137)

Compatibility release for version year 2017.

MAXIMA

An action which is used in record ADA with no assigned load case will trigger a warning instead of an error. (120144)

Improvement of the output. (120385)

Performance improvement: shortened computing time for extensive output (e.g. ECHO LOAD, FACT).

WinMax

Task 'Define Combinations': Improvement in the warning that load groups are defined at the actions. (119869)

NF EN1992-2004: Actions for bridges GR and ZC value PSI1' has been removed. The code NF EN 1990/A1/NA does not consider the non-frequent combination. (120390)

DIN EN1992-2004, DIN EN1994-2004: For bridges default of the minimum reinforcement for columns modified to 0.3%

Compatibility release for version year 2017.

The COLUMN cross section dialog for wall with symmetrical reinforcement now determines the correct minimum reinforcement.

Compatibility release for version year 2017.

Access to the CDBASE (@KEY) - Examples

*CDB2Excel *

New: Read from the CDB - "Discrete function values"

Compatibility release for version year 2017.

In some situations, element group factors (GRP) were not taken into account, correctly. Affected were only systems featuring secondary group definitions, but independent of their actual use for computation control. (121025)

Compatibility release for version year 2017.

Further load case properties are available.

Print view: Measure lines along paper edge and cross section mismatched.

Record DBO, FILT: Settings for columns of RSET results were not processed correctly.

Sorting did not work when an extreme value selection was active. (116256)

Sometimes an active sorting led to an incorrect visualization.

The command "delete filter" partly deleted also filters set on not selected columns. (120371)

Non effective parts will now be displayed as hatched area.

Increased text height for text within frames. (120618)

Compatibility release for version year 2017.

Hysteresis diagrams did not work any more.

The mass matrix of beams has not been treated with excentricities so far, as in most cases the mass center and elastic center coincide. This is now precisely calculated. Larger deviations may occur for sufficiently large excentricities. (119886)

In some situations, element group factors (GRP) were not taken into account, correctly. Affected were only systems featuring secondary group definitions, but independent of their actual use for computation control. (121025)

Some errors in the turbulence model repaired.

Compatibility release for version year 2017.

Compatibility release for version year 2017.

CSM design: actual CTRL AQB input in a CSM-DESI run are now copied into the created AQB-input (120005)

CSM design: container loadcases Y_1 ... are now used with cross section type 9998.
CST 9998 = acts on final section (9999 reserved for unbonded tendons) (120199)

Punching design extended for MAXIMA loadcases using ELLA influence line evaluation results. The missing quad nodal results are then extracted from the element results. (120027)

Punching: in case of two neighboring punching columns an unfavorable force from the shear slab results was taken into account in special cases - corrected. (120469)

Punching: boundary columns with a beam coming from outside the slab were not detected as punching nodes - corrected. (120859)

Correction regarding the consideration of the effective buckling length factor.

Compatibility release for version year 2017.

In some situations, element group factors (GRP) were not taken into account, correctly. Affected were only systems featuring secondary group definitions, but independent of their actual use for computation control. (121025)

Nonlinear beams: message for nonconvergent iteration improved in case of AQB message 'Cross section can not bear loads'. (119902)

Quad tendons: usage of TENDON ICS1 stages > 1000 via CSM extended. (119898)

CSM creep: real creep caused an error on supported boundary elements - corrected. (119893)

T-beam philosophy: on boundary beams too much dead load was applied. Now only dead load of the web. (119798)

Time step analysis: starting at t=0 on using an eigenform as primary loadcase. (120061)

Flex stiffness elements: usage for eigenvalue analysis corrected (caused an error) (121204)

Hardening Plasticity Soil (GRAN): During analysis with ASE, in random situations and by mistake, the hardening formulation was effectively deactivated. In these cases, the material behavior is equivalent to a standard Mohr-Coulomb material. (120546)

The definition of HEBZ as factor did not work properly with noneffective sections. (121061)

Error within the estimate of the torional area AK for circumferential reinforcements corrected. (120910)

FE cross-sections containing circular parts defined as PROF had their plastic bending capacities integrated twice for the latter (120757)

The export truncated formulas after the 33rd character. (120214)

Error removed for an interpolation between discontinuous sections.

For the crack width of sections with a single layer under full tension, noc convergence was achieved. (121932)

The utilisation of the fatigue stress for concrete was not properly evaluated. (121900)

For timber structures, resp. without limits on the von Mises criteria, shear stresses where ignored in the utilisation. (121828)

There is now a warning if CTRL REIN FIXL does not allow the correct design for torsion. (121619)

The prestress from AQUA has not been accounted for properly for the forces. (121087)

The stress strain curve ULTI for the design of high strength concrete used the strain limits of the SERV curve. (120139)

The section class was not calculated for every load case individually. (120100)

Compatibility release for version year 2017.

SOFiPLUS was unable to start on AutoCAD verticals. (120636,120632,120795,120823,120883,121079,121095)

Cross Section Editor

Improved handling of the Cross Section Editor. (119934)

Structural Elements

Structural areas between the main and the secondary axis couldn't be defined for an CABD axis with an included angle of more than 90 degree. (120457)

Loads

In some cases structural line loads with divergent load geometry couldn't be modified. (120295)

Parametric Bridge Design

Improved handling of tendons via the sidebar.

The execute of +SYS commands did not work always correctly. (119568)

Problem with SYS commands and spaces in the file name.

It is possible to define a fixed symbol size of axes. So the symbol can be independent from text length or text height.

The changing and updating of databases worked sometimes wrong. (118166)

The unit PRWC worked sometimes wrong for cuts. (117717)

Moving springs were displayed wrong during spring info. (118308)

Graphic Export: Incorrect handling of spaces in filenames. Graphics were exported not picture-wise. (118582)

Many cuts in database led to an slower start of WinGraf. (118582)

Layer-wise selection was overwritten during changing the line of vision.

The applying of commands (eg. BOX, view) was not considered at all selected layers.

Load case loop worked sometimes wrong.

Load case number was sometimes not written in the picture description.

Projection of structural area worked sometimes incorrect.

WING output, record LC: Output of comparison worked sometimes wrong.

Measurelines in rotated systems were sometimes wrong.

The first defined HEAD line (KOPF1) was used not primarily.

Additional symbols (eg. placements) could not be shown without text.

Only the first two load cases are be used during writing the SIR input (file GSR). All other load cases are written as comment. That results in a faster first calculation of SIR.

Design Code Benchmark Examples

New EN Design Code Example No. 25: Shear between web and flange of Hollow CS acc. DIN EN 1992-2

Enhancements to rotate pictures using multiple selection.

Exporting EMF files with different line weights.

Bugfix in quad tendon search. For larger systems small segments of tendons have not been assigned correctly to quad elements. (118829)

Bug while error detection of a macro function.

Minor additions in the manual.

Changes from AQB 16.04.

SSD

Possible SSD crash after the project was changed.

After a break of all locks the sections were changed to invalid. (118983)

Calculation of Concrete Columns

If the cross section number larger than 100 was used, the calculation of fire design crashed. The use of cross-sectional numbers larger than 100 is now impossible in use for COLUMN. (119320)

Problem with the shear reinforcement in the fire design (118794)

Problem with cross-sections without reinforcement. (118747)

Error in processing boundary hinges on structural areas fixed. (118772)

For GDIV<0 there are problems with a restart if there are no elements in group 0. However, this problem will be resolved only in Version 2018. For DEL/MOD/TRAN a selection of an element number without a group number will be shifted to the selected group if GDIV<0. GRP 1 ; DEL QUAD 1 will delete the element 1001 if GDIV is -1000.

As the default for PRZ at MASS did not work any more in most cases, the default has no changed to 100[%]. But the combination values may be now selected with the literals PSI0, PSI1 or PSI2.

New input record ADDM will replace the FLEX in a future version.

TRAN: Improved validation of extruded elements. (117531)

SBOX: Corrected element selection through polygon with thickness. (119051)

UBND: Improved boundary detection and validity checks. (119328)

SBOX: Corrected a bug in coordinate input by node number (GPT). (119530)

TRAN: Coordinate system of extruded beam is controlled by the local system of the extruded SPT.

LOFT: Improved auto-detection of corresponding nodes.

INTF: Constraints of original nodes should not be copied to the decoupled elements.

EXTR: Fixed crash when using PATH DIR without specifying DIV.

RESP EXMC allows the direct definition of modal coordinates for spectral evaluations in DYNA.

WSPE does not save any more the Fourier-transformations of the spectra for DYNR to the database.

Nosing force of UIC is no applied in the load reference point. (119139)

Improvements for the load application of projected beam loadings with skewed excentricities. (118474)

The record COOR is now treated immediately during the input processing.

The ouput units of reinforcements were wrong.

Bugfix regarding CTRL SVAL U.

National annexes for EN 1992-2004 and EN 1993-2005: Timber - solid hard wood, plywood, particle board and OSB boards defined

BS 5400, BS 5950, ZA TMH7: Safety for shear design corrected

EN.INI boxed values for original EN 1991, EN 1992, EN 1993: Adjustment factors alpha-qi according to EN 1991-2 are now 1.0

DIN FB102-2009, DIN FB103-2009: due to Nachrechnungrichtlinie conversion of the design according to EN, materials according to EN

US codes: Default concrete has now the nominal strength class 300 psi (corresponds to 21 MPa)

SIA 262, SIA 263: Default for concrete factor eta-t = alpha-cc now 1.0

Diagnose.exe

Support for AutoCAD 2017.

General functionality

Microsoft Excel 2016 is now supported.

Dialogs for materials and cross-sections

In the task Bore Profile an additional soil profile for foundations is added.

In the soil profile for foundations, tooltips are added to explain the local / global reference system. (117726)

SOFiSTiK Interface for Rhinoceros

Layer assignment corrected. (117831)

Programming

New examples for the Visual Basic .NET and C++ Programming Interface

*CDB2Excel *

Listbox reset bug-fix

The use of secondary groups could create a crash of the program.

Relaxed cable length is available. Cross section dead weight per m is available.

A wildcard based (? and *) text filter is available now.

A loop based filter (from, to, increment) is available now.

A page, grafic or layer can now be duplicated (All settings and child elements will also be copied).

Record DBO: The default settings of REPE and WIDT can be changed for all columns by using "*" as column name.

The result name can now also be exported into the clipboard.

Colored text was sometimes ignored.

The selection of the last section of an interpolated beam led to a crash.

When copying RSET tables into the clipboard, the column titles were missing. (119125)

Record FILT: OPTI NO was not applied.

Directional arrows of thin walled elements were missing.

The definition of options in POSL has now been distributed to seven items with literals. The old numeric definition is still working. Selecting PTRA OFF will deactivate now all transverse loading.

Calculation of elevation was not correct for INT>2 and lanes not starting at station zero. (119912)

Nosing force of UIC was not always applied, Wind loading could not be diabled. (119139)

For very large lanes and INT>2 it could happen that some parts of the load train area have been assigned to the residual area. (118622)

Program has not been terminated for a mixture of QUAD and Beamelements. (118536)

Program crashed when printing large result sets. (114328)

MASS record synchronized with SOFIMSHA/ASE. As it happened despite a warning not seldom, that temporary massed defined in DYNA have been associated to a deselected group, these masses will now be applied always.

RESP EXMC from SOFiLOAD allows the direct definition of modal coordinates for spectral evaluations.

For MODD it is now possible to specify if a definition should be persistent or not. MODD without EIGE is now an error.

Selecting higher Eigen values will now search the corresponding masses of the loweste Eigenform.

Print of CONT definitions enhanced. (118606)

Crash of the solver for very large systems with constraints. (119866)

Aperiodic functions have not been used for modal time integration. (119851)

DYNA had problems to save the QUAD-results for plane stress conditions.

Minor corrections for the print out.

CSM design: using a lot of actions, an error occured in the cross section stress plot - corrected. (119012)

CSM-DESI: parameter PAR8>100 now controls:
(101-109) Check at traffic opening and t-infinite
default: only the one generally controlling

Shear check Swiss SIA262: in an increase of longitudinal reinforcement due to shear (CTRL RO-V) sometimes the increase was too high while designing multiple loadcases. (117928)

Punching international (except Germany): PUNC ROV input corrected. Without ROV input now a minimum ratio of 0.3% is applied (before 0.5). (118663)

Fatigue according EN 1992-1-1 6.8.7(1): beta-cc for fcd,fat now calculated depending on the type of cement.
Following also slight differences for EN1992-2004. (118412,119674)

Swiss SIA262: Adaption to new concrete strength in AQUA (alpha-cc=1.0, but taking into account the eta-c faktor)

Correction regarding free point load. (117775)

Warning regarding cross sections with effective widths.

Error in processing kinematic constraints fixed. For large systems (>50.000 nodes) the lever arm between coupled nodes might be evaluated incorrectly under certain circumstances. (118311)

Problems with inplane rotations on excentric quads corrected (problem came with servicepack SP3)

Problem also solvable with CTRL INPL V3 0. (118722,119002,118834,118994,118047)

Nonlinear quad concrete material: in a conversion of a database from version 2014 the concrete tensile fracture energy was not updated correctly - solved.

Problem also solvable with a new input of the concrete materials. (118217,118718)

Eigenvalues: the CTRL SOLV 4 solver could produce unaccurate results on dynamic eigenvalues - solved. (118982)

Timber quad layer element: effect of rolling modulus G90 corrected in the slab shear stiffness.

Material definitions also in example ase.dat..\special\timberquadlayer.dat (118370)

Dynamic mass conversion: the misleading default MASS LC PRZ=psi2 has been corrected to PRZ=100%.

The import of cross-section whose none-effective areas have been defined by means of NEFF stress fields was corrected.

The computation of unit warpings and unit shear stresses of solid and thin-walled composite sections made up of several disconnected sub-domains was improved

The minimum inclination of the truss diagonal TANA for shear cuts (input CUT) shall be exported per default.

The printout of "hot" reinforcements in thermal analysis of cross-sections can be activated via ECHO SECT YES.

The detailed tables "Line Reinforcements" and "Single Reinforcements" shall only be printed in the ReportBrowser upon activated ECHO SECT EXTR.

For cross-sections whose meshing failed, node sequences shall not be generated, whereas the edges of the problematic geometrical domains of the cross-section shall be saved into the secondary database. The latter option can be activated by means of TEST 6 1.

For concrete according SIA the coefficient eta-fc is now already integrated in the nominal strength. An update of old data is done automatically, including a possible correction of eta-t values to 1.0 for classes greater than 30. (119454)

FE sections allow now construction stage numbers up to 9999. (117943)

Timbermaterials according EN issued a warning for other design codes, export of timber orthotropic angles was defect. (119137)

For QB sections a minimum shear link reinforcement has been created, even for columns. (118794)

Polygon points resulting from the intersection of cross-sectional geometry and gravity axes were not fully generated for CTRL STYP BEM 1/2/3 (116469)

Problems related to the the assignment of cross-sectional elements to different construction stages resolved. (115052)

Problems related to the distribution type EVEN of reinforcement bars were resolved. There will be at least one bar generated even when the length of the line reinforcement segment is smaller than the bar distance A. (115016)

The effect of the ducts (SCUT BRED) on the shear stresses due to torsion and shear is now also being considered in the case of FE cross-sections under the condition that the reduced shear cut shall not have an explicit user-defined BMAX. (114738)

The selected category in the design code worked on the environment class of timber.

The computation of composite sections' torsional rigidity was improved by closely considering the G-moduli ratios of all materials present in the gross cross-sections

Cross-Sections class 4 : none-effective bits of internally generated stress points along with their fixities were corrected.

Multidomain FE Cross-sections with voids had problems regarding the intersection of the holes with the remaining material regions.

The computation of shear stresses in FE cross-sections now considers the effects due to the location of the effective gravity centre.

The effect of the minimum reinforcements for the computation of the shear distribution was not correct for thin sections.

The explicit offset of all cross-sectional coordinates did not consider the offset of line and circular reinforcements.

Modifications for the shear according to the German Nachrechnungsrichtlinie resp CTRL REIN FIXS. This implies, that all shear links in AQUA are treated then only as minimum reinfocements, thus existing reinforcements are only definable with record BEAM.

AQB uses now for SREC and SCIR sections a defined minimum reinforcement for shear links.

Shear design according Eurocode will now save the utilisation of Vrd,ct to the data base. (118154)

ECHO USEP NO did not influence the summary of the STRE usage, but deactivated the total summary. (119547)

The non effective areas of FE-sections where not taken into account properly by DESI and NSTR. (118006)

The prestress has not been applied to the total section if NEFF NYZ has been specified. With this correction, the increase of the prestress due to compresson of the net section is now calculated more precisely. (117866)

For the deductional areas of reinforcements with EIGE, the Troast factor has been applied twice. (117106)

Crash on quads with thickness 0 removed. (117962)

Handling of invalid sections corrected. (118983)

Improved upgrade of drawings that contain locked layers.

Loads

Visualisation settings for structural points affected on free point loads, too. (119711)

Parametric Bridge Design

Deleted tendons were exported under certain conditions.

Improved performance of the Cross Member Editor. (117771)

Using the command "undo" after creating a CABD axis could cause a crash.

Elements

In some cases, QUAD element group controls were not processed correctly wih activated parallel computing environment. (119057)

Material laws

Nonlinear soil materials: In rare situations, a significant slowdown of processing speed could be observed - fixed. (119057,119428)

DXF export worked incorrect with 'Report Browser Format'. (117060)

Sometimes load case list was missing, when the system contained more than 1500 load cases. (117089,117419)

The interactive definition of color palettes was sometimes wrong when few colors were used. (114605)

The renaming of load cases was sometimes wrong. (117521)

The check of the older beam tendon stresses could take a long time to complete.

Vectors were sometimes incorrect coloured. Text was sometimes not coloured even if 'variable colours' was set.

The comparision of a invalid load case led to a crash. Too many load cases were displayed in the table of loadcases during the single comparision in list output.

Design Code Benchmark Examples

New EN Design Code Example No. 24: Lateral torsional buckling

New EN Design Code Example No. 23: Stress Relaxation of Prestressing Steel - DIN EN 1992-1-1

New EN Design Code Example No. 22: Stress Relaxation of Prestressing Steel - EN 1992-1-1

The page numbering when printing graphics was incorrect. (117178)

Elements

Fiber Beam: Capturing beams with excentric cross-sections was disfunctional. (116958)

SSD

During a animator-selection the animator window did not always came in the foreground.

Notice Regarding a required recalculation when changing the settings of the page frame. (109829)

Calculation of Concrete Columns

COLUMN-X extended reinforced concrete column: Column with any cross-sectional geometry (including composite column).

Graphical display of the vertical line loads. (116599)

Wrong output to results for text of the used curve for fire design.

Examples of volume mesh generation (tetrahedrals, hexahedrals) revised.

SBOX defaults have been redesigned. It is now possible to define a bric with A1X to B1Z (XMIN,YMIN,ZMIN,XMAX,YMAX,ZMAX). The sequence of the defaults for the remaining axes is now a cyclic perturbation starting with the main extension and no more dependent on the gravity direction.

QUAD: Improved determination of the local coordinate system. (116502)

Static wind- and wave loadings may now be summarized group wise. This allows to calculate the Froude-Krylow resultant forces for any type of structure.

Improvements of the load application of AREA. (117147)

Boxed values for LM1/2 have not been set any more. (116823)

Definition of node numbers for free loadings did npt work for all unit sets. Hint: The use of the COOR command allowing to store coordinates in variables provide a far better usability. (116808)

Bugfix regarding crash of RELY when specified DAT file does not exist.

MAXIMA

Fixed error in the consideration of intitial load cases for objective functions. (116669)

Fixed error in validation of objective functions. (116199,117720)

Improvement of the output. (116173)

EN design codes: new boxed value according to EN 1992-1-1 chap. 6.2.4 (6)value k

I.INI: Modification of the values cnom (CnomId, CnomVal, CnomValTendon) according to UNI EN 1992-1-1:2005 prospetto 4.4N, 4.5N for Classe strutturale S2 (117110)

NS EN1992-2004: Factor for load model 1 UDL modified into alpha-q1 = 0.6 according to NS-EN 1991-2:2003/NA 4.3.2(3) (116823)

EN design codes: Modification of the title for GR_U into gr1a for UDL LM 1 (116629)

CDB Clean did not delete loadcases completly. (110916)

Notice Regarding a required recalculation when changing the settings of the page frame. (109829)

Dialogs for materials and cross-sections

Fixed issues in the Cable Section and the Rolled Steel Dialogs.

Programming

New examples for the Fortran and Python Programming Interface

Project template (Fortran) for the user defined material model (usermat) programming interface.

Export of SOFiSTiK systems to *.ifc revised. (116722)

Error in import of sections fixed.

Sometimes the warning 2124 'Pile intersects halfspace surface' was causelessly. (116695)

Non effective parts of thin walled sections will now be displayed as filled area.

When saving a default name is always given.

Group selection was sometimes incorrect.

Visualisation of coloured text corrected.

List of beam sections was not updated.

A wrong zero line was displayed during normal stresses from a fire protection design.

Design error indexes were sometimes displayed at the maximum shear reinforcement of beams.

Sometimes some toolbar elements were not updated.

The database selection for graphics, lists and diagrams cannot be changed via user interface. When a .results file containing such an input is opened, the selection field will be disabled.

When selecting another result, the current zoom will be retained.

For lists and diagrams, the toolbar options for adding/removing decimal places are no longer available.

Dynamic Wind and wave loadings improved.

Integration of Dampers for small velocities improved.

Explicit dynamics (FEX-DYN): Analysis with prescribed nodal displacements/ accelerations is now supported.

Definition of a scaling point for SBFEM did not work. The orientation of the elements is now automatically adopted to the SCP. The usage of kinamtic constraints on the SBFEM interface did not work. (117090)

Real creep does not work properly for quads in combination with CSM-CTRL-PLC - corrected. (117045)

Input CTRL ASE2 TEXT added for ASE input lines behind GRP, e.g. STEX for HASE. (116728)

Nonlinear incremental launching: convergence improved in ASE, revised example csm45launchingprecamber.dat (117068)

Punching: in case a single column disturbs the slab shearforce cut, the punching force is now taken from the quad support forces (will be printed in the punching output) (116789)

Punching: WINGRAF plot improved in case of wall corners with openings (117443)

Punching: reduction due to soil pressure corrected in case of wall ends on foundation slabs (117407)

American Standard ACI and AASHTO: design switched from ACI-318-2008M to ACI 318-14:
Table 21.2.1 : Strength reduction factor for compression now 0.65

Correction regarding the determination of the maximum member deflection (EN 1993-1-1, Annex A, Table A.2). (117251)

On premature exit of LTB-check, e.g. in case that normal force exceeds critical magnitude, the total stability utilization factor to be stored in CDB was not updated consistently. (116567)

For the eigenvalue analysis, load excentricities were not considered correctly. (116170)

Nonlinear quad concrete material: extended for centric reinforcement from BEMESS DIRE CENT. (116963)

Error message 582 for missing quad tendon parts e.g. in front the concrete part switched to a warning. (117147)

In very big curved shells (>100000 quad elements) in cracked analysis: slight increase of deformation when continuing on a convergent primary loadcase. Problem was inaccurate inplane rotation (vertical to the curved shell). This rotation vertical to the slab is undetermined in the SOFiSTiK shell model and caused the slight problem. (114994)

Enhanced performance for the initialization of secondary group info. (116833)

The effect of the minimum reinforcements for composite sections is now also being considered for the computation of the sectional unit shear distribution (thin- and solid sections with FEM).

Procedure CTRL PLAS 2: For visualization of the plastified cross-sectional areas, corresponding secondary element groups are generated automatically in the cross-section database.

The titles of the sub-materials within a layered material were not printed in full (117504)

Meshing problems with regards to the symmetrical meshing of cross-sections were corrected (117489)

A definition of RHO for a concrete ignored a definition of GAM. (117323)

The computation of elastic yield moments for tabullated standard steel profiles was improved. (117230)

The crackwidth NSTR CRAC TAB will use SIGS for an explicit stress value for reinforcings.

Check for fatigue with NSTR enhanced with individual notch cases for stress points. ECHO FAT EXTR/ELEM implemented. (117159)

The crackwidth NSTR CRAC TAB will use the distance value defined in AQUA with highest priority. (116751)

Warning 107 extended with a Hint on missing reinforcement factors. (116412)

Program crashed if more than 1000 creep load cases have been activated. (117914)

Saving the results of stress ranges with COMB GMAX for NSTR did not work any more. (117286)

Shear stresses in stress points, polygon vertices and FE-points were not correct with NSTR. (117159)

Minor improvements for the print out. (117171,117148,117029)

Shear design of flanges according EN 1992-1/2 can bear higher stresses without shear links.

Crack width accordung elder BS require a reasonable distance of the reinforcements.

Visualisation now faster.

Visualisation of results in systems that contain brics corrected. (96231)

Visualisation of rotated beams corrected. (98819)

Visualisation of excentric beams corrected. (115918)

Enhanced performance while rotating.

Visualisation of local coordinate systems in beams corrected.

Visualisation of results systems in beams corrected.

Crash on imported loadcases removed. (111778)

French language pack (SOFiPLUS, not SOFiPLUS-X).

The command “Explode” no longer changes the layer of SOFiPLUS elements.

General

In drawings with a lot of unpurged elements some dialogs couldn't be opened. (117254)

The value history of editfields stayed on the screen too long. (114319)

Parametric Bridge Design

Enabled import of axes from tendon geometry. (117451,117479,117816)

The local z direction is available for load distribution areas. (115161)

QUAD cuts were sometimes generated wrong if they lay on a QUAD edge. (116396)

Sometimes the error message 'workspace too small' occurred during reading nodal sequences.

The group selection of structural areas worked sometimes not correctly. Some structural element properties did not displayed at structural elements. Structural areas did displayed all structural lines instead the original ones. (114615)

Area loads have too many contour lines at walls of a three-dimensional system. (115403)

Record GRP, item NUMB: Standard literals were checked in one language only. So the translated input could not worked after an automatically translation.

Sometimes calculation of pictures size (FORM URS) did not consider the number of HEAD lines. Sometimes HEAD lines did not fit to the pages. (115550,115330)

Correction at distributed spring forces related on area.

Update behavior of placements improved.

Load cases for program SIR (GSR input) were printed only with 5 digits.

Adapting multiphysics-results to output of program DOLFYN.

Design Code Benchmark Examples

New EN Design Code Example No. 21: Real Creep and Shrinkage Calculation of a T-beam prestressed CS

Problems with several grafical export formats solved. (116079,115805,115801)

Error in determining the sequence of quad elements along a tendon geometry fixed. (116243)

Tolerance problem in determining the eccentric position of the tendon within the duct fixed. (116012)

Imprecise information in caption of plots improved. (114689)

The display of the search text did not work when replace with ask to.

The display of CADINP keyword in a table header did not work in conjunction with a "=" statement.

Elements

Fiber Beam: Optional activation of hyperelastic material response via CTRL CONC MTYP 'HYPE' (also affects (reinforcing) steel behavior). (114489)

Changes from AQB 16.02.

The command "Calculate Tasks..." saves the current settings.

Analysis tasks

The task "Linear Analysis" ignored constraints in group handling. (115941)

Calculation of Concrete Columns

The number of juxtaposed pictures of load cases was incorrectly determined. (116169)

Correction when reinforcement proposal for a circumference reinforcement. (116034)

When fire protection for walls according to Table 5.4, the buckling length was calculated wrong. (114999)

Calculation of Footings

The communication between Revit and SSD in connection with FOOTiNG was improved.

Memory requirements when processing systems containing a large amount of coupling conditions reduced.

SPRI: Fixed direction of spring elements, when coupling areas. (112786,116435)

Minor impovements and bugfixes.

Staggered wind loading according to picture 7.4 of EN 1991-1-4 may be created now.

WTST allows now the comparisson with Davenport coherences or the root of the coherences.

The internal subdivision of the line loads was to corse for very loang loadings. (116110)

The subdivision of the generated COPY loadings was to corse for long curved lanes. (115164)

Brakeloading of HB/NB load train were to small.

Load cases for program AQB (.SIR input) were printed only with 5 digits.

The material number of SPT was sometimes written wrong for program AQUA (.SIR input).

MAXIMA

Fixed error in computation of bedding forces for non-selected elements. (114625)

DIN 1045-2008, DIN 1045-1, DIN 1045: Default removed for the material 9 brickwork which is not anymore available

Diagnose.exe

Listing SOFiPLUS and SOFiPLUS-X Registry entries.

Improvement of the input of sheet pile shapes. (116433)

Problems with several grafical export formats solved. (116079,115805,115801)

Dialogs for materials and cross-sections

The default for the relaxation class for Eurocode tendons has been changed to "low relaxation" = class 2. For an existing prestressing steel oft he version 2016 we recommend to open the dialog of the material and to confirm it with OK. For files of the version 2014 an automatic upgrade is done with a message.

SOFiSTiK Program Start

In WPS module tree the displaying of lables is suppressed. (115664)

Programming

New examples for the Fortran and C# Programming Interface

Added dialog for table properties.

A warning will be printed for incompatible result selection.

Record CROS: Kind of non effective parts is now available.

Record PICT: Restoring defaults for items is possible now.

Adaptions to changes of program AQB.

By default, the content of small tables will no longer be be printed side by side.

Retrograde planet effect of the ordinates of the influence line for outer lanes at skewed end supports. (115632)

Improper selection of all neighbouring nodes outside the length of the loaded lane could result in a memory overflow. (115468)

Influence lines identical to zero caused NAN-values for CTRL AGRL 0/1. (115284)

The obsoleted lane definitions EC-X have been removed now from the software.

Manual has been reworked in detail.

VTK Export for the primary mesh for polyhedra-meshes.

Update of dokumentations.

SOLV Parameters have not been evaluated completely.

Creep and shrinkage: new features from AQUA see new example csm.dat..\more\realcreepcreepparameter.dat

Punching: outprint vRd,max corrected (without compression of prestress in case of german code). (115077)

Punching EN: criteria vED/vRDc <= 2.0 corrected.
VRD,max check at column face: reduction of u0 due to openings now also on inner columns.
u0 corrected also for boundary and corner columns according EN 1992 6.4.5(3). (116309)

Punching: end of walls perpendicular to boundary edges of a building in 3D switched off for punching (116014)

American ACI: strength reduction factor for shear set to 0.75 according 9.3.2.3.
In punching vc calculated in dependence of design with/without shear reinforcement. (115067)

Decompression check EN 7.3.1 100mm above/below tendon duct:

storage improved for WINGRAF (115963)

Fix regarding account of maximum member deflection for computation of the equivalent uniform moment factors C-mi,0 according to EN 1993-1-1, Table A.2.

Enhanced table legend for printout of Auxiliary Terms (EN 1993-1-1, Annex A, Method 1, Tables A.1 - A.2). (114917)

By default, now the highest cross-section class along the member according to the stress check controls the member stability. Up to now: the cross-section class at the location of maximum moment action.

Quad-spring contact: automatic quad-inplane-feature (CTRL SPRI 0/1) extended for disc-disc-coupling springs (114660)

Extended checks in t-beam philosophy (see. CTRL PLAB): centric beams in excentric QUADs or in QUADs with stiffenss corrections are now excluded from the t-beam philosophy. (114850)

Creep and shrinkage quad tendons: creep and shrinkage effect in duct hole corrected. (114380)

Nonlinear quad concrete material: shear at a crack corrected in case of primary load case

The effect of the minimum reinforcements for composit sections is now also evaluated for the shear. Thus WELD results for thin walled sections will be precise.

The output of the hydrodynamic coefficients has been enhanced. An export is now also possible.

The default for the relaxation class for Eurocode tendons has been changed to "low relaxation" = class 2.

Export of circular sections did not treat the minimum reinforcement value. (116462)

The explicit definition of a web inclination angle by means of the input parameter VR2 did not work for sheet pile profile (116433)

The default setting for CTRL STYP of FEM cross-sections from concrete resulted in a not intended behaviour where FEM shear and torsional stresses along the shear cuts have not been used. (116102)

The restart option CTRL REST 2 followed by an additional value for the cross-section number enforces the complete recomputation of a FEM cross-section (115906)

Rectangular sections of type POLY RECT/REC+/REC- obtain by default polygon points at exactly three positions along each side - start, end and midpoint. (114662)

Noneffective polygon points were incorrectly assigned to a material of different number leading to a wrong graphical representation in the ResultViewer. (114626)

INTE ADD did not work any more.

Corrections of exposed to fire MEXT edges in FE cross-sections. The thermal analysis ist now also applicable to construction stages and internal node sequences

The thermal resistance alpha of the record MEXT is now correctly being saved in kW/K/m2 in the database and respectively printed in W/K/m2 in the Report Browser.

Export of PLAT/WELD with Unit 0 used still the outdated mm.

The parameters of the creep functions according EN 1992-1 may be modified now via MEXT EIGE in AQUA. For relaxation class ENC2 a typical general building admission (abZ) is used. Attention: As the current default for prestressing steeel according Eurocode was ENC1, this default is automatically changed now to ENC2. Steel definitions upgraded from 2014 have to be reassigned the ENC1 relaxation class if required.

Minimum values of the internal lever for shear design are now based on the direction of the shear force and not of the neutral axis. User defined values are taken always if they are less than the sectional dimension.

The selection with ECHO SELE has been revised. The default is now to print all elements. ECHO option EXTR prints only stress points selected with SELE. ECHO option ELEM prints all essential sectional elements selected with SELE.

Print of safety factors for ACI optimized.

For the calculation of the internal lver tensile reinforcements on the compressive site have been ignored completely. (116579)

The overview of the maximum utilisation did not add up properly the total utilisation for STRE B. (116456)

The defined REL1-values for tendon steel relaxation have not been used for the CEB variant. The evaluation in time has been calculated based on an outdated formula to small. (116041)

Utilisation of c/t-limits for small stresses corrected. (115921)

Maximum values of stresses have not been saved properly to the database. (115512)

The calculated stresses of LNAH in composite sections were not correct (G/Gref applied). (114200)

Relaxation has not been applied for tendons without bond.

NSTR used the hardening of structural steel without the defined ultimate strain.

Tangential stiffness for NSTR were not correct for FE-sections.

Visualisation of quads corrected.

General

The properties of existing materials, cross sections, working laws and bore profiles can now only be modified via the sidebar. (115858,115962)

Structural Elements

Improved 3d visualisation of structural areas with additional vertices (e.g. during ORBIT). (115962)

While modifying the edge of a structural area, the edge coordinate system was not shown. (116270)

Loads

It is no longer possible to execute SOFiPLUS(-X)commands in a drawing whose current layer is locked. A warning is shown and the command is aborted in this case. Also, a warning is shown when opening a drawing with its current layer locked. (114771)

Structural line loads with divergent load geometry couldn't be modified on the loads tab of the structural line dialog. (114817)

Parametric Bridge Design

After copying a structural element between placements, the copied element could reference a wrong placement. (115369)

The thickness setting of the Cross Members Editor did not work correctly, resulting in too many elements to be shown. (114947,115369)

Sometimes lists and diagrams were not updated. (115578)

General

Fixed potential problems during the start of SOFiPLUS-X without program SSD. (115185,115245,115314,115344,115354,115566)