SAP2000 Release Notes: Notice Date: 2019-01-22
SAP2000 Release Notes: Notice Date: 2019-01-22
SAP2000 Release Notes: Notice Date: 2019-01-22
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Release Notes
© Copyright Computers and Structures, Inc., 2019
This file lists all changes made to SAP2000 since the previous version. Most changes do not affect most users.
Incidents marked with an asterisk (*) in the first column of the tables below are more significant.
Frame Design
Enhancements Implemented
* Incident Description
* 224993 An enhancement has been implemented to include crack-width analysis for concrete beams
according to the Russian concrete frame design code SP 63.13320.2012.
External Import/Export
Enhancements Implemented
* Incident Description
94426 The option to export the analysis model to Perform-3D has been added to the 64-bit version.
Previously this was only available for the 32-bit version, which is no longer available starting
with v21.0.0.
User Interface
Incidents Resolved
* Incident Description
225642 An incident was resolved in which an abnormal termination could occur when attempting to
display an internally generated constraint using the Display > Show Misc Element Assigns >
Joint command. This was a user interface issue and did not affect results.
227530 An incident was resolved where the filename input on the Analysis Options form for
automatically saving database tables incorrectly had a ".xml" appended if the user input
filename ended with ".xlsx" or ".accdb".
228210 An incident was resolved for the NBCC 2015 auto seismic loading form to correct three items:
1) Using the tab key did not move around the form in a logical order. 2) The eccentricity
parameter would not allow a zero or negative value. 3) The label for the MaxZ input incorrectly
showed MinZ.
Analysis
Incidents Resolved
* Incident Description
227289 An incident was resolved where staged construction load cases were sometimes not able to
converge in stages that applied load if all the previous stage(s) in the same load case had no
applied loads. The tolerance used in stages without loads was very small and was not being
changed when loads were applied in later stages. Now the tolerance will be reset for each stage
according to the magnitude of the load applied. When this issue occurred, results were not
available. This issue only affected v21.0.0.
Frame Design
Incidents Resolved
* Incident Description
227170 An incident was resolved for the Russian steel frame design code SP 16.133330.2011 in which
section p9.2.10 was being used to determine the D/C ratio of pipe sections. For pipes, the
generic section p9.2.9 is now used. The previous results were slightly conservative.
* 227746 An incident was resolved in which steel frame design optimization was not enforcing
displacement or time-period targets. This issue was inadvertently introduced in v21.0.0.