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Version 7.013 - February 01 2010
| 1. |
Modeler/Interpret: Now supports
a greater number of different materials and liners in teh same
model. 100 different materials up from 40. |
| 2. |
Modeler: Improved joint node numbering
for joints that intersect at the external boundary. |
| 3. |
Modeler: Improved Slide file reader. |
| 4. |
Compute: Staged properties for
hyperbolic joint properties had a bug. Fixed. |
| 5. |
Compute: Beam self-weight calculation
had a bug if combined with the" Area and Inertia" cross-section
option. Fixed. |
| 6. |
Compute: Hyperbolic non-linear
material had a bug for high pretension loads. Fixed. |
| 7. |
Compute: Implemented more robust
Intel solver to solve models with liners unattached to rock/soil. |
| 8. |
Modeler/Interpret. Fixed drawing
of the infiltration groundwater boundary condition. |
| 9. |
Interpret: Added new options for
plotting of trajectories. Can now scale them according to the
stress state. Can now plot failure trajectories at points with
factor of safety <1.0 and failed elements. |
| 10. |
New Help System. |
Version 7.012 - November 30 2009
| 1. |
Modeler: Added geometry cleanup
option to Slide file import. It is on by default. |
| 2. |
Interpret: Fixed drawing of deformed
mesh for models with joint elements. |
| 3. |
Modeler: Sometimes node number
drawing at midside joint nodes would be incorrect. |
| 4. |
Interpreter: For support capacity
plots, fixed the Filter Data by FS to work correctly with shear
FS. |
| 5. |
Interpreter: Added coordinate update
in the Support Capacity plots. |
| 6. |
Interpreter: Added the display
of the force and moment data on the prompt line for picked
liners. |
| 7. |
Compute: SSR with staged joint
properties caused Compute to crash. |
| 8. |
Compute: Improved the face plate
logic for bolt with face plates. |
| 9. |
Modeler: Generalized Hoek-Brown
parameter calculator fixed for non MPa units. |
| 10. |
New Help System. |
Version 7.011 - October 13 2009
| 1. |
Modeler: Stage piezo lines was
broken in the 7.010 update. Fixed.. |
| 2. |
Modeler/Compute: If a bolt and
joint intersect an excavation at the same point, and the bolt
comes into existence prior to the material inside the excavation
being excavated, the compute engine would crash. Fixed.. |
| 3. |
Modeler/Compute: Improvements were
made to bolts crossing structural interfaces and composite
liners with joints. In the case of composite liners, the joint
now effects the behavior of the bolt. |
| 4. |
Interpreter: Spring
forces would not display when selected in the Show Values dialog.
Fixed. |
Version 7.010 - September 29 2009
| 1. |
Compute: Optimized shape function
calculations (solid calculations only). Improved speed by ~
10% |
| 2. |
Compute:Fixed bug for bolts crossing
joints that are excavated. |
| 3. |
Compute: Axial force calculations
in shear bolts more accurate. |
| 4. |
Compute: Cam-Clay model was improved. |
| 5. |
Modeler:A bug when switching between
bolt types when bolts are set to elastic was fixed in the bolt
properties dialog. |
| 6. |
Modeler/Interpreter: Number of
nodes and elements reported in Info Viewer and status bar now
include
joint elements. |
| 7. |
Modeler: Fixed Voronoi joint network
generation. For very dense networks some segments of Voronoi
cells were discarded during generation process. |
| 8. |
Modeler: Phase2 import of Slide
files with geotextiles would not correctly install the geotextiles. |
| 9. |
Compute: Locked in stresses for
models with field stress and a groundwater analysis were written
to the data file with the wrong sign. Fixed. |
| 10. |
Interpreter: Added
the ability to add grid lines to graphs. |
Version 7.009 - July 24 2009
| 1. |
Compute: Fixed bug for liners with
internal hinges. |
| 2. |
Modeler: Added right-click menu
option for bolts to reset removal stage. |
| 3. |
Interpreter: Would
sometimes crash when opening large files. Fixed. |
Version 7.008
- July 13 2009
| 1. |
Interpret: Would not
run under Vista32. |
Version 7.007 - July 7 2009
| 1. |
Under rare circumstances
the clipboard would be corrupted. Fixed. |
| 2. |
Excel charting of multiple datasets
would sometimes not work with Excel 2007. |
| 3. |
Modeler/Compute:If the first material
was not being used in a groundwater analysis, warnings would
result in the groundwater compute engine. |
| 4. |
Modeler:The combo box for the groundwater
analysis permeability function, in the groundwater properties
dialog, would disappear if the check box for show used properties
was checked. |
| 5. |
Compute: Pressurized joints when
used with groundwater analysis computed pore pressures did
not work. |
| 6. |
Modeler/Interpreter. Material properties
table now lists material's groundwater parameters. |
| 7. |
Modeler. Advanced discretization
(regions) did not work if there were any Joint Networks present. |
| 8. |
Modeler. Increase Discretization
Density did not work on Joint Network boundaries. |
| 9. |
Modeler. Improved joint set selection
in Joint Network dialog. |
| 10. |
Modeler. Fixed a crash that would
sometimes occur when deleting dimensioning tool by clicking
on it and hitting DELETE key. |
| 11. |
Interpret. When opening large fez
files (compressed), a progress bar appears sooner and Interpret
doesn't appear to be frozen. |
| 12. |
Fixed a bug with the spacing of
parallel statistical joints when their inclination was 0 degrees.
In previous versions the spacing would be constant (the mean
value) whether or not a user specified a statistical distribution. |
| 13. |
Added the ability to specify cross-jointed
bedding networks with fixed spacing for the cross joints and
offset adjacent rows of cross joints. |
| 14. |
A bug in updating the tensile
strength for Hoek-Brown materials was fixed. |
| 15. |
Modeler. Selecting Delete Stages
in the project settings dialog would sometimes crash teh program.. |
| 16. |
Compute. Staged groundwater boundary
conditions now works properly. |
| 17. |
Compute:Fixed bug for residual
strength of bolts crossing joints. |
| 18. |
Compute: Fixed a problem with pretensioning
bolts and the redistribution of shear force when a bolt yields. |
| 19. |
Security system update to allow
for educational updates and improve commercial network version. |
Version 7.006 - May 4 2009
| 1. |
Compute: Resetting of joint nodal
displacement (slaving) did not work correctly with backfilled
joints. |
| 2. |
Compute: Improvement to Swellex
and Tieback bolts to better handle shear failure. |
| 3. |
Compute: Improvement to Queens
cable bolt model. |
| 4. |
Interpret: Fixed a drawing issue
with ponded water loads. |
| 5. |
Modeler: Groundwater Seepage Face
boundary condition is now the default when doing infiltration. |
| 6. |
Interpret/Modeler: Fixed Interpret
Print To Scale option that was always disabled. You can now
define
scale
for
printing by going to File -> Print Scale. Added Print Scale
to Modeler. |
| 7. |
Interpret: Fixed Interpret Zoom
Lock feature that was always disabled. Zoom Lock allows one
to maintain the same viewing window between 2 or more side-by-side
windows. |
| 8. |
Interpret: Added new title block
with "Scale" box to show user defined print scale.
This is now the default footer for CAD view in both Modeler
and Interpret.. |
| 9. |
Interpret: Can now see the yielding
of bolts across a joint. They are drawn as failed in the region
around the joint-bolt intersection. |
| 10. |
Interpret: Can now toggle on/off
element numbers and markers in the liner/joint/bolt graphs.
Improved the plot generation speed.. |
| 11. |
Modeler: In the Project Summary
form (Analysis/Project Settings/Project Summary) horizontal
scrolling is not working, neither by horizontal slider nor
automatically when typing in Project Title and other fields.
Fixed. |
| 12. |
Model: The writing of staged liner
material properties sometimes didn't work correctly.. |
| 13. |
Compute: When computing groundwater
with Intel solver, program used to abort when there were no
restraints.
This is fixed. Program no longer aborts but returns 0 head
for all nodes (same as non-Intel solver). |
| 14. |
Modeler: In Add Vertex mode Snap
option was applied always, even when coordinates were entered
through prompt line. This prevented users from entering new
vertices close to existing vertices. Also there’s now
a message telling user if inserted vertex already exist instead
of generic message “Point is not on any boundary”. |
| 15. |
Interpret: Improved the generation
of flow lines, the agorithm now uses Runge Kutta integration
with adaptive stepsize. The old algorithm (Euler integration)
sometimes resulted in flowlines that crossed. |
| 16. |
Interpret: Added the ability to
plot major prinmciple stress flow lines. Look in the Analysis
menu under Stress Flow. |
| 17. |
Updated Help system
with new tutorials. |
Version 7.005 - February 2 2009
| 1. |
Modeler: Midside node numbering
problem with structural interfaces fixed. |
| 2. |
Compute: Fixed a bug with the Intel
solver when using displacement boundary conditions. Program
gave wron results. |
| 3. |
Modeler: Fixed a bug when exporting
to a Slide file when no finite-element mesh existed. The program
would crash. |
| 4. |
Compute/Modeler: Bolts would sometime
crash compute due to a bug in writing them in the modeler.
Excavated elements would be written in the list of elements
crossed. |
| 5. |
Modeler/Interpret: DXF import was
improved to get rid of memory leakage. |
| 6. |
Modeler:.A bug that caused the
program to crash when using secondary bond length was fixed. |
| 7. |
Modeler:.A bug that caused the
program to crash when using mapped meshing and nodal forces was
fixed. |
| 8. |
Updated Help system. |
Version 7.004 - December 15 2008
| 1. |
Modeler: Selecting
Voronoi joint network would crash the program.. |
Version 7.003 - December 12 2008
| 1. |
Modeler: In the joint network
dialog added ability to randomize all joint sets of a joint
network.
Clicking on the arrow of the "Randomize" button brings
up menu with Randomize All or Randomize Current Set choices. |
| 2. |
Modeler/Interpret: Fixed circle
tool. Rectangular bounding box was always drawn around the
circle/oval, while it is only supposed to show up when adding
or editing the tool. |
| 3. |
Modeler: Fixed nodes/elements
indicator on status bar was not updating after using right-click
menu
to increase element density of SSR zone |
| 4. |
Modeler: Fixed a refine mesh problem.
Inverted elements were being created. |
| 5. |
Modeler. Change was made to allow
user to select "Automatically Mesh" option when importing
Slide files that have existing groundwater mesh without resetting
boundary conditions. |
| 6. |
Modeler. Improved Geometry Cleanup
feature. It now deletes end segments below the threshold distance
and also snaps vertices to segments if they are within the
threshold distance. Added option to run the cleaner multiple
times for more thorough results. |
| 7. |
Modeler: For Joint networks, changed
the trace plane convention so that Trace Plane Dip Direction
points
into
the
screen (and not out of the screen). |
| 8. |
Modeler: For joint networks, fixed
a bug with Baecher networks that caused joint traces not to
be plotted whenever the dip direction of a joint was parallel
to trace plane dip direction.. |
| 9. |
Modeler/Compute: The groundwater
pressure inside joints can be factored at stages. |
| 10. |
Modeler/Compute: Secondary grout
length for tieback bolts has been implemented. |
| 11. |
Compute: Fixed speed issue on Vista
64 bit computers with more than 4GB of memory. Engine with
Intel solver was performing a lot slower than non-Intel version
due to incorrectly determined available memory. |
| 12. |
Compute: Small bug fix in plain
strand cable bolts. |
| 13. |
Interpret: Interpret. Added ability
to export all or selected lines, queries and tools to a separate
file so that they can be imported later into another model.
Lines, queries and tools can now be imported from another Phase2
7 fez file. |
| 14. |
Modeler/Interpret. Fixed circle
tool. Rectangular bounding box was always drawn around the
circle/oval, while it is only supposed to show up when adding
or editing the tool. |
| 15. |
All modules. Fixed minor potential
memory leaks. |
| 16. |
Modeler: Fixed a bug in the mesher,
sometimes holes would be created inside the mesh. |
| 17. |
Modeler: New boundary
simplification option has been added. |
| 18. |
Updated Help system. |
Version 7.002 - October 28 2008
| 1. |
Modeler: Midside node numbering
problem with composite liners. |
| 2. |
Modeler: Joint plasticity was not
set correctly when using SSR search regions. |
| 3. |
Modeler: In the Reinforcement database
dialog, the title of the Designation group box always says
Designation (Imperial) even if you select Metric. |
| 4. |
Modeler: Fixed a bug where rectangle
for joint network generation would always stretch to point
0,0 |
| 5. |
Modeler: Improved mesh smoothing
to prevent inverted elements. This mostly affects models with
joint networks that didn’t compute. |
| 6. |
Modeler: A bug in the geometry
cleaning would prevent overlapping line segments from being
deleted. |
| 7. |
Modeler: Composite liners with
multiple liners and slip between liners did not install correctly
if all the liners were installed in the same stage. |
| 8. |
Modeler: Help links for Material,
Joint, Bolt, and Liner Properties dialog have been fixed. |
| 9. |
Modeler: Fixed removal of overlapping
joint network sets. Previously user was asked the question,
but the sets were not removed. |
| 10. |
Modeler/Interpreter: Info Viewer
display options allow to add/remove various sections with information. |
| 11. |
Compute: Conjugate gradient solver
did not work. Fixed. |
| 12. |
Compute: Cable truss liners can
have only tensile axial forces. |
| 13. |
Interpret: Support capacity plots
didn’t work with composite liners with joints. |
| 14. |
Interpreter: Fixed bug with displacement
vectors not scaled properly if the absolute maximum value is
below 1e-6. |
| 15. |
Interpreter: Support capacity envelopes
now support staged liner material properties. The envelope
will change depending on the properties of the stage being
plotted. |
| 16. |
Interpreter: A crash when drawing
joint slip directions has been fixed. |
| 17. |
Interpreter: Improved drawing of
joint slip directions. |
| 18. |
More tutorials added
and an updated Help system. |
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