Updated August 25, 2020.
This document provides the general summary of new features and important notes about the ZSoil.PC® v2020 software product.
What’s New in ZSoil.PC® 2020 v20.06
- Analysis:
– Resolved issue with nonzero local beam deformations in empty step just after initial state for flexibility based beams - Preprocessing
– Resolved issue with displaying periodic boundary conditions
– Resolved issue with selection of interface element with existence function
– Improvements for high resolution monitors
– Resolved issue with reading seepage elements defined in macro model
– Resolved issue with deleting elements connected to mesh tying - Postprocessing
– Resolved issue with user defined reference time step
– Improvements for high resolution monitors - Virtual Lab
– General:
a. vectorized images in user-configured automatic reports
b. improvements for high resolution monitors
– Automatic/Interactive Parameter Selection:
a. removed regression which interrupted in certain cases the automatic parameter selection
b. improved rounding of estimates in interactive parameter selection
What’s New in ZSoil.PC® 2020 v20.03
- ZSoil Menu:
– Resolved issue with displaying greek symbols for monitors with 4K resolution - Preprocessing
– Resolved issue with reading splines from DXF
– Resolved issue with grouping lines to polyline
– Added user defined tolerace for detection existing nodes/points
– Resolved issue with extrusion subdomain faces to Continuum 3D subdomains - Postprocessing
– Resolved issue with saving MNT for continuum settings
– Corrected issue with selection inside contour
– Corrected sequence of stress components exports for continuum results to ParaView (Plane Strain) - Virtual Lab
– General:
a. supporting high resolution monitors
b. returning to Material Database Management on the material edit close
– Automatic/Interactive Parameter Selection:
a. included migration from sig3+c*cot(phi) power law to the two remaining formulations sig3 and p (mean stress)
What’s New in ZSoil.PC® 2020 v20.02
- General
– New constitutive model for soils HSBrick
– New creep+aging module for damage plasticity model for concrete
– New fully consistent visco-elastic aging and creep coupled with damage plasticty
– Nonlinear creep in compression
– Initial gap in interfaces
– New 3D template: Soldier Pile walls
– Tables with interface strength properties
– Support for 4K resolution - Preprocessing
– Speed-up of storing undo information
– Resolved issue with removed nodes for meshing through morphing
– Resolved issue with copying hinges and loads on shell elements when related subdomain is copied - Analysis
– New undrained treatment compatible with two-phase
– New undrained approach in which saturation is kept frozen based on nodal pore pressures computed from steady state or consolidation drivers
– Corrected problem with in-plane flow for 2D interfaces
– Resolved issue causing changing internal forces in shells during eigenvalue analysis
– Corrected issue with missing reactions in deformation+flow analysis and shell elements only - Postprocessing
– Displaying results with transparency
– SDK available in Python 2.7 and 3
– Added detection of disconnected domains in MNT for continuum
– Added detection of improper beam definition in MNT for continuum
– Resolved issue with displaying results for Eigenmode driver
– Resolved issue with exporting of pile interface results to ParaView
– Added tensile soft + compression hardening option to plastic zones results
– Corrected interpretation and management for plastic zones
– Speed-up extremum calculation when group of elements is missing for selected time
- Virtual Lab
– General:
a. Material Database Management System based on SQL techniques
b. User-configured automatic reporting for parameter identification sessions
c. Extension of the power law migration tool to 3 available formulations for stress dependent stiffness in the Hardening Soil model
d. Improved algorithm for parameter migration between 3 available power law formulations in the the Hardening Soil model
– Parametes Identification:
a. possibility of defining bounds on the power exponent m for numerical adjustments for triaxial tests
– Automatic/Interactive Parameter Selection:
a. improved estimation of E_50 and E_ur for fine and coarse soils (see the log of CORRELATION DATABASE)
b. revised automatic selection for void ratio, dry unit weight and friction angle for coarse soils
– Lab Test Simulator:
a. new Loading Program Manager to design most common triaxial loading programs to examine constitutive models w/o real test data:
i. strain or stress-controlled test
ii. monotonic w/ or w/o unloading cycles
iii. cyclic loading with one- or two-way amplitudes
b. new Brick formulation for small strain stiffness extension in the Hardening Soil model