Updated March 21, 2021.
This document provides the general summary of new features and important notes about the ZSoil® v2020 software product.
What’s New in ZSoil® 2020 v20.07
- Analysis:
– Resolved issue with eigenmodes modified by mesh tying and nodal linking
– Resolved issue with direct contact parameters in large deformations
– Resolved issue with detection of kinematic loading
– Improvements for names of directories created when driver makes restart backups
– Resolved issue with stress level for steel in fire analysis
– Resolved issue with degradation of steel E modulus in fire analysis for shell fibers
– Resolved issue with automating changing of nonlinear solver, which comes back to the initial NL solver
– Resolved issue with contact in large deformations - Preprocessing
– Corrected problem with negative jacobian for Continuum 2D extruded from edges
– Corrected snapping to nearest point on objects
– Improvements for displaying Subdomain 2D without virtual mesh
– Resolved issue with direction for beams in plane strain
– Resolved issue with surfaces intersections
– Resolved issue with crash during generation by extrusion
– Resolved issue with definition paramters in front
– Resolved issue with displaying colors for infinite elements - Postprocessing
– Resolved issue with reference time step selection
– Resolved issue with memory leaks - Virtual Lab
PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION:
a. oedometer test
– improvements in identification algorithm for Eoed
– extracting additional parameters – E_oed_ur, Eur, Eur_ref – from unloading branch of the oedometer test
– strain-energy-based method (Becker’s approach) for identification the preconsolidation pressure and qPOP
– integrating interpretation lines to inspect interpreted slopes and intersection
– minor improvements in dialog functionality
b. triaxial test
– integrating Mohr’s circles inspection view
c. improved window layout resizing
d. other minor improvements
INTERACTIVE PARAMETER SELECTION:
a. no need to redefine in situ test data in the correlation browser if the data have been previously defined in the dialog “In situ Test Data”
b. improved dialog size control
c. minor improvements
LAB TEST SIMULATION:
a. improved dialog size control
TOOLS:
a. improvements for high resolution monitors
What’s New in ZSoil® 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® 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® 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