Updated May 8, 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 v20.02
- 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
– Extended SDK in Python 2.7 and Python 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
– PARAMETER 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