Updated July 29, 2019.
This document provides a general summary of new features and important notes about the ZSoil® v2016 software product.
What’s New in ZSoil® 2016 v16.10
- Preprocessing
– Hide/show for beam loads has been added to Visibilty dialog box
– Resolved issue with scaling of fluid head elements - Postprocessing
– Resolved issue with drawing tau stresses for 2D contact.
– Added export Armer-Wood moments and membrane forces to ParaView format
– corrected visualization of MNT results integrated from continuum 3D - ZSoil Menu
– Added support for multi range existence function for seepage elements
What’s New in ZSoil® 2016 v16.09
- Preprocessing
– Correction regarding Display color introduced in v16.08 has been rolled back
– Resolved issue with zero multiplier for multiple extrusion and copy with translation
– Resolved issue with undo operation for membrane 2D elements - Postprocessing
– Resolved issue with Element info for large-scale models
– Improved MNT diagrams from continuum 3D (this option will not work in 3D if holes are present in the cross section)
– Problem with visualization of local deformations on truss elements is corrected - ZSoil Menu
– Option [Export to Excel] in the dialog Acceleration toolbox (under load time functions) was replaced by [Signal processing]. Direct export to the Excel will no further be supported. Postprocessed Fourier spectrum, elastic response spectra are visualized directly in the dialog box and can be exported in the *.csv format; plot of integrated velocities and displacements from given acceleration record was added
– Direct export to the Excel will no further be supported for Pushover results. Capacity curves, demand spectra and report are visualized directly in the dialog box - Calculation module
– Corrected lack of handling of enforced fluid pressure boundary conditions on nodes on which Fluid Head BC was defined earlier and then canceled
– Improved stress-strain integration in plastic damage model for concrete
– Problem with activating nonlinear solvers other than Full Newton-Raphson for the steady state fluid flow is corrected - Virtual Lab
– Removed problem related to inability of reproducing loading programs of real test for the oedometric test in the Lab Test Simulation module
– Removed problem related to data transfer after using the Initial State Profile tool
– Fixed mismatching messages in the Lab Test Simulation module for ‘Simulate all checked’ option
– Fixed a problem with non-ascii characters in a file name
– Fixed a problem of unit conversion on close the Virtual Lab application
– Minor bug fixes and improvements
What’s New in ZSoil® 2016 v16.08
- Preprocessing
– Accelerating generation of elements/nodes using translation, rotation and symmetry methods for large-scale models
– Fixed a problem with creating subdomains by faces extrusion along extrusion direction
– Introduced a method for easier modification of length and angle for anchors and nails
– Fixed a problem with visibility of node numbers when nodes were hidden by “Hide of selected elements”
– Display color is not changed to Initial material using Show excavation/construction steps mode - Postprocessing
– Fixed an export of MNT results for Continuum 3D
– Fixed a problem with keybord shortcuts
– Acceleration of file loading with a large number of time steps - ZSoil Menu
– Acceleration of writing *.DAT file for large-scale models - Calculation module
– Acceleration of the flow analysis for large-scale model with the use of mesh tying elements
– Fixed a problem with negative value of CPU time in LOG file
– Added an elapsed time to LOG file - Virtual Lab
– Fixed minor bugs in Parameter Identification module
– Fixed a problem with opening the Parameter Identification dialog after loading an existing project
– Fixed overestimating the failure ratio (R_f) and secant modulus (E_50) for the cases with unloading cycles between 0.25 and 0.75 of failure deviatoric stress (q_f)
What’s New in ZSoil® 2016 v16.06
- Postprocessing
– Added an export results in layers to ParaView
What’s New in ZSoil® 2016 v16.01 (Initial release)
- New damage-plastic model for concrete
- Virtual geotechnical laboratory toolbox
- Diaphragm/sheet pile wall template on PC platform
- New user friendly interface based on ribbon technology is compatible with pre-processing. Easy access to the most commonly used options.
- Export results to Paraview (*.vtu format)
- Python scripting (mainly postprocessing and automatic reporting)