LUSAS 14.

7 Error Fix and Modification Release Note

This document details changes that have been made since the first release of LUSAS 14.7 The Kit No. can be found printed on the installation CD. Further details of errors that have been fixed can be found in the Knowledge Base on the LUSAS Web site www.lusas.com where the number given in brackets is the reference number in the Knowledge Base. The changes apply to all LUSAS application products unless otherwise stated. For new features see New_Features_in_14.7 For details of errors fixed in Modeller 14.7-0 see modeller_fixed_14.7 For details of errors fixed in Modeller 14.7-0 see solver_fixed_14.7

Kit: 14.7-10

Released: 2nd October 2012

LUSAS Modeller 14.7.1762.14269 Field variations do not work with global distributed loads and surfaces (13282) Field variations in local distributed load in loadcase 1 does nothing at all (13283) Discrete loading from the Multiple Tendon Wizard - Large offsets and moments incorrectly applied where a tendon subtends an angle greater than 180 degrees (13287) Erroneous error "TLO is limited to parallel carriageways" can sometimes appear, even when selected lines are parallel (13289) Modeller may crash when loadcases with assigned load attributes are deleted (13290) Global distributed loads are not displayed transformed where local coordinates have been assigned to transform nodal freedoms (13304) LUSAS Solver Scripts Autoloader Configuration Utility Expose FVLusas IMDPlus Luspat Patlus 14.7.1745.14185 14.7.1761.14269 14.7.1697.14002 14.7.1697.14002 14.7.1697.14002 14.7.1713.14100 14.7.1697.14002 14.7.1713.14100 14.7.1713.14100

Kit: 14.7-9

Released: 18th September 2012

Enhancements Support for Updated rules for use of Eurocodes on highway projects TRVFS2011:12 (CR12863) LUSAS Modeller 14.7.1746.14199 Select Drape Assignments selects the same as select assignments (13200) Importing an STL file reported as successful but no visible geometry in Modeller appears (13218) Cannot move geometry where influences are assigned (13225) Plastic strains for thick shell (Top) are given as zero when the element has yielded and plastic strain thick shell (Mid) are incorrect (13229) Spectral curve is limited to a certain length of data and an error will be given if too many rows (say 1000) is used (13231) Discrete loading from the Multiple Tendon Wizard is not applied correctly to tendon lines subtending an angle >180 degrees (13235) LUSAS Solver 14.7.1745.14185

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Kit: 14.7-8

Released: 4th September 2012

LUSAS Modeller 14.7.1729.14129 Editing reciprocal influence attribute creates more assignments in the analysis treeview and causes crash (13151) Mesh Layer - Colour by Element Type causes Modeller to crash (13167) Point mesh for Joints - beam - does not offer 3D beams (13168) When more than 1 line in search area discrete loading from the Multiple Tendon Wizard cannot be visualised and load does not get applied to the model (13192) Cannot visualise a user defined arbitrary section in the Section Library, nor will it flesh (13193) LUSAS Solver Scripts Autoloader Configuration Utility Expose FVLusas IMDPlus Luspat Patlus 14.7.1713.14100 14.7.1729.14129 14.7.1697.14002 14.7.1697.14002 14.7.1697.14002 14.7.1713.14100 14.7.1697.14002 14.7.1713.14100 14.7.1713.14100

Kit: 14.7-7

Released: 23th August 2012

LUSAS Modeller 14.7.1713.14100 Cannot drape a long narrow volume (13076) The number of integration points (on the x-section) for cross section beams (BSX4, BXL4) is not tabulated correctly when different in local y and z directions (13121) All top/middle/bottom shell stresses reported as zero in basic combination (13124) Crash on editing influences (13137) 'Deassign from selection' doesn't work with influence attributes (13138) Influence surface fails to run with error "The model cannot be solved with invalid definition attributes that are assigned (13141) No beam section visualisation for tapered section (13147) Volumes mesh without error, but no mesh is displayed (13150) Modeller fails to create a surface from four simple straight lines (13161) LUSAS Solver 14.7.1713.14100 Use of BTS3 in IMD spectral analysis leads to high differences between reaction and forces (11780) Scripts 14.7.1713.14100

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Kit: 14.7-6

Released: 20th July 2012

LUSAS Modeller 14.7.1697.14002 Inconsistent Reporting of Activated/Deactivated Results. Some loadcases are reported with zero values for the deactivated features, while others are reported with no mention of the deactivated features (11984) Problem with loadcurve 'activation time' as load curves tabulated as zero from t=0 until t=activation time (12903) Draped Solids and Shells - Cannot delete local coordinate previously used for the start direction (12950) Draped Solids and Shells - Geometry changes that lead to the draping start point referenced becoming non-existent means that all laminas within a composite material have to be deleted and added again (12951) Deleting unmeshed features closes results files (12991) Hexahedral Meshing using a Background Grid fails even when a uniform mesh size is specified (13007) The first and last joint elements between two axisymmetric surface edges are slightly over/understiff by equal but opposite amounts (13016) Discrete loads are not applied to some parts of a search area after a remesh (13058) Incorrect results and a "Fatal database error" in a model using thick shells (QTS4) for combinations and envelopes when linear and nonlinear analysis types are mixed and results files have been loaded on top of one model (13079) Discrete loads for beams incorrectly tabulated (13083) LUSAS Solver 14.7.1697.14002 Incorrect results will be obtained if the CEB-FIP creep material model is used with thick shells (12572) Scripts Autoloader Configuration Utility Expose FVLusas IMDPlus Luspat Patlus 14.7.1697.14002 14.7.1697.14002 14.7.1697.14002 14.7.1697.14002 14.7.1697.14002 14.7.1697.14002 14.7.1697.14002 14.7.1697.14002

Kit: 14.7-5

Released: 19th June 2012

LUSAS Modeller 14.7.1681.13851 Unable to contour scripted results on slices (9593) Visible lines incorrectly treated as hidden when all parent surfaces are invisible (12196) Wrong number of Gauss points used in results processing when fine integration specified (12601) Rare Modeller crash on viewing the Properties dialog (12649)

Chinese version - Errors on running examples scripts (12651) Prestress commands missing from session file when opting to save (12706) Type mismatch at line 6631" error occurs when Finland is set as location and Finnish used in the Regional and language settings in Control Panel - reason for error : comma as decimal separator (12709) Nonlinear & Transient menu entry visible but not enabled for Bridge license (12714) With prestress wizard to AASHTO, the default short term concrete modulus is always used - the user is unable to change the value (12717) Teacher and Training License - Cannot open results files - Number of elements (#) exceeds restriction of 0 - command aborted. Occurs only if the Teacher and training limits option in the Configuration Utility is not ticked (12718) Problem mapping tendon to lines (12720) When using the slicing tool with a path in the X direction, if the model is viewed in the X direction a "subscript" error with a divide by zero occurs. Error is "Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Division by zero at Line 12412" (12727) When running the Print Results Wizard, and choosing to display results for a smart combination or envelope that is also active in the view, results for the active primary component are not displayed - zeros are displayed instead. (The primary component is the one that was chosen at the time of setting the smart combination or envelope active) (12728) Data from loadcase 1 is incorrectly included in the tabulation of a v14.1 influence of displacement (12732) Beam stresses on fleshed sections and at fibre locations are incorrect where an offset is indirectly specified (numerically integrated beams BM3, BS3, BS4, BSL3, BSL4) (12745) When surfaces made from arcs lie on top of each other and are connected via a tied mesh, an invalid normal is reported (12752) Point by extension doesn't work (12777) Unexpected twist in straight beam element (12783) A invalid deformed mesh can sometimes be seen when results are closed and a combination or envelope is active (12785) new diagram peak labelling fails to find Fx peak when using BMS3 elements with nodal loading (12803) The deformed mesh is available for inactive parts of a model but results for displacements etc. are not (12805) Discrete loads are not applied to some parts of a search area after a remesh, but are OK if reassigned (12806) Discrete loads projected onto line - No loading is applied and no error/warning is displayed 12812) Contours of loading (model) multiplied by number of assigned loadcases (12824) LPI function node.getVectorResults returns incorrect number of components for plate elements which prevent smart combination wizard working correctly (12825) The 'Add to' button on the Animation Load History dialog becomes disabled if prior to selecting a loadcase the divider between the Name and Type fields is dragged to a new position (12832) Contours of model lost when saving and loading model (12836) Discrete point load fails to project correctly onto line for an arc line search area (12843) Volume Meshing problem using line spacing with extreme ratios (12844) Modeller crashes closing mesh only model (12845) Nodal position can be displayed when the Labels layer is selected. If a local coordinate system is assigned to the node and set active, labels still refer to global coordinate system. Right-click on the node and select properties, coordinates are returned in local coordinate system (12847) Crash when tabulating, where damping inconsistently assigned to surfaces (12857) Modeller crashes when editing damping attribute properties with variation defined (12858) A shear influence at the end of beam element that has end release results in a zero pivot error (12860) When all network licenses have been taken Modeller does not start as the Teaching and Training version (12862)

Tapered sections handle Ixy incorrectly (12864) Can't contour scripted results on bar elements (12865) When using the Slice Resultants Beams/Shell tool on a model which contains a basic combination the message View: "None" is not recognised, or not valid in this context at line 4576 is issued if the basic combination contains an envelope or smart combination (12880) Small beam model with prestress loads takes an excessive amount of time to mesh and also to tabulate the Datafile (12886) Unable to use specified loadcases option in results chapter of report wizard - Modeller proceeds (and reports errors) as if no loadcases had been selected. (12895) Modeller crashes when changing active composite lamina (12900) Drape composite model with drape offset direction set fails to tabulate (12932) Draped Solids and Shells - Cannot delete local coordinate previously used for the start direction (12950) Sentinel RMS License Manager (server) does not install correctly on Windows 7 64 bit (12981)

LUSAS Solver 14.7.1681.13851 Constraints fail with standard frontal solver (11798) Joint General properties with Viscous damping gives zero joint force in dynamics (12861) Scripts Autoloader Configuration Utility Expose FVLusas IMDPlus Luspat Patlus 14.7.1681.13851 14.7.1665.13586 14.7.1681.13851 14.7.1601.13184 14.7.1681.13851 14.7.1601.13184 14.7.1681.13851 14.7.1681.13851

Kit: 14.7-4

Released: 27th March 2012

Enhancements Improved Force/Moment Diagram Labelling o Option provided to enable peak values only to be displayed. o Option provided to allow values on diagram to be different colour from diagram o Default font size changed from 10 to 11 o Default magnitude changed from 6mm to 10mm o Default number of significant figures changed from 6 to 4 LUSAS Modeller 14.7.1665.13586 With "label selected only" off, diagram labels typically overwrite each other and are unreadable (2855) Diagram labels are suppressed for very small numeric values - thus zeros are never labeled. (4081) An option is needed to draw diagram labels only where the slope of the diagram changes sign, in order to reduce the number of values displayed. (11430) User Section Library sections.csv not linked to existing geometric attributes for Chinese version (11676) Windows 7 selection problem bug in graphics display (12080) Error when rotating library section when csv file missing (12247) Solver run aborts towards the end of the assembling elements process - forrtl: severe (157): Program Exception - access violation (12310) If a loadcase A is made active and this loadcase has only 3 supported nodes then using the print results wizard (Selected) to extract support reactions from loadcase B which has 8 supported nodes will only display these first 3 support reactions and omit the 5 new reactions from loadcase B

(12402) Can't use loadcase context menu to turn off nonlinear controls without nonlinear license (12536) Using Print Result Wizard updates the model display for each loadcase/eigenvalue chosen. This causes Modeller to be slower than necessary (12555) Vehicle loads incorrectly converted when model length units are not meters (12596) Coloured background visible around text labels on screen in Windows 7 (12559) When the master and slave surfaces are coincident, Modeller error (invalid Jacobian) issued when solve is invoked. Model meshes fine (12602) If line mesh is assigned with spherical coordinate set then in properties dialog gives wrong name for local coordinate assignment used (12610) Surface global distributed loading does not work when a field variation is used (12638) Message "Sections are too different to be able to connect together" issued when trying to flesh identical sections (12647) When entering a value for elastic shortening, the wording on the dialog (and subsequent validation warning) gives the misleading impression that a loss (e.g. 2%) should be entered. Whereas in fact this number is used as a load factor, and therefore 98% would be a more reasonable input (12654) When a local coordinate system is active, then Multi-tendon wizard will create the tendon forces with respect to that local coordinate system (12663) Section shape visualisation in beam geometric attribute doesn't show whole section (12665) Unable to change the precision or font angle when showing "values of selection" in the values layer (12669) Problem with post-processing Sx(Fx) results from BTS3 elements in RailTrack Post-Processing Tool (12674) Modeller adds "_struct" to the datafile name for a structural only analysis (12680) When choosing "Specified" loadcases accessed from "Loadcases..." button of the report writer, scrolling away from the checked loadcases can cause them to be ignored (12681) mesh reset should not make large memory grabs (12683) Auto gravity double-counted when activating elements (12686) Arbitrary sections with quads file doesnt work in user library (12693) New section properties not set correctly in tapered sections (12694) When carrying out a results history for graphing the validity of the elements is with reference to the active loadcase. This causes problems with inactive elements when birth and death is used (12702)

LUSAS Solver 14.7.1666.13612 Contours of stress for thick nonlinear beams in a transient analysis are wrong (12584) Some nonlinear jobs occasionally fail with forrtl error 157 (program exception access violation) while generating the plot file, or hang with database errors whilst assembling elements. (12611) Scripts Autoloader Configuration Utility Expose FVLusas IMDPlus Luspat Patlus 14.7.1665.13586 14.7.1665.13586 14.7.1665.13586 14.7.1601.13184 14.7.1650.13492 14.7.1601.13184 14.7.1650.13492 14.7.1650.13492

Kit: 14.7-3

Released: 3rd February 2012

LUSAS Modeller 14.7.1651.13503 The values for load factors produced by the Report Wizard for eigenvalue buckling are rounded off to the nearest integer (12335)

Influence assignments become invalid once TLO has been run (12537) Calculate Now button on combination/envelope dialog errors (12542) Unable to recover from recover file (12547) Teaching and training license not recognised (12556) th Update material library to AASHTO 5 (12566) Crash on Copy (12573) Errors in India & China material constants (12575) Add BD44/95 concrete to Materials Library (12576) Complex shape fails to flesh in arbitrary section calculator (12581) Cannot do a tapered section using cross sectional beams (12582) Modeller memory usage goes up each time a model or window is opened (12589) Using TLO causes a remesh (12591) Multi-Patch Discrete Load Coordinates not in Selection Order (12592)

LUSAS Solver 14.7.1650.13492 Slideline results are not written to the results file after a restart is run (12507) Scripts Autoloader Configuration Utility Expose FVLusas IMDPlus Luspat Patlus 14.7.1650.13492 14.7.1601.13184 14.7.1602.13246 14.7.1601.13184 14.7.1650.13492 14.7.1601.13184 14.7.1650.13492 14.7.1650.13492

Kit: 14.7-2

Released: 13th January 2012

LUSAS Modeller 14.7.1634.13430 Copying and pasting attributes with many assignments between loadcases in the loadcase tree is very slow when compared to deassigning and then reassigning in the attributes tree (7735) Modeller crash with very large file path (11788) Chinese version - Autoloader - Modeller writes Chinese characters to the input file for the vehicle direction (11949) Point Coordinates not Reported when Cylindrical or Spherical Coordinate Active (12006) Under windows 7 registering an assembly from the module manager dialog fails "Failed locating the register assembly tool (Regasm.exe) for the .NET framework v2.0" (12241) Incorrect update of group name when changing element type (12285) Failure to load .NET modules due to missing dependencies causes a crash (12401) The arbitrary section property calculator computes the section properties. However, cannot visualise the section or flesh it - error message "failed to generate quadrilaterals to fill boundaries" (12488) Print results wizard crashes or gives erroneous loadcase Ids when some elements are not showing results (12490) Modeller converts Global distributed loads, applied on a line or surface, to CL load. The conversion is not correct when the load is not constant. The conversion error affects also the FLUX Field load (12514) Dragging and dropping loads between loadcases loses assignments (12529) Assigning geometric attribute does grey bitmap of old geometric attribute (12530) When a smart combinations is included in an envelope of an envelope, maximum envelopes are not ignored in minimum smart combinations/minimum envelopes are not ignored in maximum smart combinations so their effects are incorrectly included if the permanent factor is > 0 or their

affect is adverse (12532) Fix to 14.1 influence when assigned to intersections (12533) Can't select components in the expression column for user defined results in Chinese UI (12539) LUSAS crash on deleting loadcases (12540) Plane Stress Model Crashes on Solving (12541) Scripted dialogs do not appear in Chinese for Chinese version of windows 7 (12558) If teaching and training option in configuration utility is selected LUSAS fails to run all together (12563) Cannot change coordinates on point property dialog (Chinese UI) (12564)

LUSAS Solver 14.7.1634.13430 Problem when using spring supports on rotational degrees of freedom in implicit dynamics model when using either Multifrontal or Pardiso solvers (11561) Linear Consolidation - Concentrated or Global Distributed Load (CL) applied increases with each time step (11784) Erroneous results are obtained when residual stresses are assigned to thick shells (TTS3, QTS4, TTS6, QTS8) with a linear material (12132) The plot file (.mys) name is taken from the rst file name and not the .dat file name, this can lead to a loss of results dumps (12267) The option to initialise the reference temperature in the structural part of a coupled analysis using temperatures from the thermal parts, keeps initialising temperatures at each loadcase. Initialisation should only happen at the start of the structural analysis (12394) Scripts Autoloader Configuration Utility Expose FVLusas IMDPlus Luspat Patlus 14.7.1634.13430 14.7.1601.13184 14.7.1602.13246 14.7.1601.13184 14.7.1634.13430 14.7.1601.13184 14.7.1634.13430 14.7.1634.13430

Kit: 14.7-1
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Released: 15th December 2011

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Kit: 14.7-0
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Released: 30th November 2011

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