What's New in STAAD.Pro V8i SS6, Build 20.07.11.45 (30 Sept 2015) Issues addressed in:-
- (A) The Analysis/Design engine (08)
- (B) The Pre-Processing Mode (07)
- (C) The Post-Processing Mode (03)
- (D) The Steel Design Mode (00)
- (E) The Concrete Design Mode (00)
- (F) The RAM Connection Mode (00)
- (G) The Advanced Slab Design Mode (00)
- (H) The Piping Mode (00)
- (I) The Editor, Viewer and other modules (00)
- (J) OpenSTAAD (01)
- (K) Documentation and Printing (0)
- (L) licensing / security / installation (0)
(A) Issues addressed in the Analysis/Design engine (08)
A) 01 The old AISC LRFD design code (pre AISC 360) has been updated to ensure that the design of double channels arranged in a back-back alignment are specifically prevented as these are not covered by the design processes currently available.
A) 02 The old AISC LRFD design code (pre AISC 360) design of double channels (front to front) has been updated to utilise a Warping Constant, Cw, value as double that of a single channel.
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A) 04 Seismic weights defined in a FLOOR GROUP failed to be processed for NRC, NTC and Turkish codes. However this was correctly processed for all other codes such as IBC and IS 800.
A) 05 The routines that design concrete members has been updated to correctly process the forces which result form load cases that include response spectrum definitions which previously did not correctly account for the nature of the internal forces. The design forces may or may not have been un-conservative, thus it is strongly recommended that they should be rechecked.
A) 06 The output of a steel design to the Russian SNiP code SP16.13330 has been modified to refer to Appendix G rather than Appendix Z, i.e. the seventh appendix in the code, to determine stability coefficients.
A) 07 The format for mass participation used in the output file has been updated to include an extra decimal place.
A) 08 The Eurocode EN 1993 design routine has been enhanced to allow the identification of hollow sections as cold rolled with an update to the SBLT design parameter. A new value of "2" will signify that the section specified for the member is a cold formed section. The buckling curve will then be chosen as per Table 6.2 of En1993-1-1. Note that the value of SBLT=2 will only be applicable for hollow sections as in Table 6.2. If SBLT of 2 has been specified for any other cross section type, the program will ignore this value and will consider the section as hot rolled and use the appropriate buckling curve.
(B) Issues addressed in the Pre-Processing Mode (07)
B) 01 The Japanese legacy database should only contain sections that were in the Japanese sections database from SS5. The current legacy database has included shapes that are in the current Japanese database. Note, this is only an issue in the SS6 release SPRO 20.07.11.33.
B) 02 The pipe sections in the US AISC steel database have been updated to correct the labelling of strong and extra strong sections. Hence the Pipe12STD is defined as a PIPX120, this should be PIPS120 and the Pipe12XS is defined as a PIPS120 and should be PIPX120
B) 03 The W profile sections listed in the US AISC steel profile database have been updated to remove spurious blank characters which caused STAAD.Pro to report these as errors when the file is re opened.
B) 04 The plastic properties for Major (Zx) and Minor (Zy) added to the channel table in the South African Database using the formula defined in Raorks 6th edition.
B) 05 The Indian seismic load parameters to IS 1893 - 2002/2005 have been updated such that the 'Generate' option, which can be used to determine the parameters for a given city, creates a correct damping ratio. Previously the value created would have created the percentage value rather then the ratio and thus have been too high by a factor of 100.
B) 06 The tool provided to check for the nature of warped quad plates has been updated such that a default value is set at 5 deg (unless set in an earlier installation, in which case the setting of 30 deg should be manually reset) and a more informative warning message provided indicating the details of the check that has been performed.
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(C) Issued Addressed in the Post-Processing Mode (03)
C) 01 The post processing of results of models with load cases defined, but containing no loading, has been updated. Previously this would cause a problem with the section force calculations in other load cases which use a response spectrum load specification.
C) 02 The labels of velocity units in the graphs of the Dynamics>Time-Velocity page have been updated to remove a spurious '/time'
C) 03 The Beam>Graphs page in the post processing mode has been updated to ensure that the graphs capture the correct maximum value of force on the selected member. The problem was introduced in the last release of the program but did not affect any of the results from the analysis, it was just a display issue.
(D) Issues Addressed in the Steel Design Mode (00)
(None)
(E) Issues Addressed in the Concrete Design Mode (00)
(None)
(F) Issues Addressed in the RAM Connection Mode (00)
(None)
(G) Issues Addressed in the Advanced Slab Design Mode (00)
(None)
(H) Issues Addressed in the Piping Mode (00)
(None)
(I) Issues Addressed in the Editor, Viewer and other modules (00)
(None)
(J) Issues Addressed in OpenSTAAD (01)
J) 01 The example spreadsheet with an OpenSTAAD macro has been updated to correct the routine that counted the combinations to ensure that the numbering correctly included primary load cases.
(K) Issues Addressed with Documentation and Printing (03)
K) 01 Output for applications Example 11 manual updated to reflect the changes in processing the intermediate results of response spectrum cases that was introduced in the initial release of V8i SS6.
K) 02 The technical reference manual has updated to clarify the response spectrum mode combination methods available when using the IS 1893 code.
K) 03 The help Contents panel has been updated to ensure that selecting an example from the Application Examples >American or British Examples displays the selected example and maintains the selection in the Contents panel.
(L) Issues Addressed with licensing / security / installation (03)
L) 01 STAAD.Pro V8i SS6 now incorporates the Bentley CONNECT schema to allow STAAD.Pro models to be incorporated into a company wide project management system.
L) 02 The Readme and Help>About dialog has been updated to display current Legal Notices detail information.
L) 03 The Bentley CONNECT scenario services routines from the previous release have been removed from the program. Note this has been replaced by the new CONNECT project schema.