ROBOT Millennium v. 18.0 Maintenance Pack 5
New options and possibilities:
Grouping members by layers (import of DXF files):
- While loading files with active layers, the program automatically creates groups containing elements that belong to individual layers.
Removed errors:
Structure modeling and calculations:
- Error of the time history analysis for Newmark’s method in case imposed displacements occur;
- Incorrect interpretation of rigid links defined on compatible nodes (absence of a rigid link);
- Unneeded use of the coefficient increasing wind pressure ”beta” for the Spanish code NBE-AE-88.
- Error of changing the integral value along the length of the panel section when activating and deactivating cuts for a group of cuts defined along one line.
Steel member design:
- Canadian code CAN/CSA:
incorrect information in the dialog box for definition of the flexural-torsional buckling length of a member; - Spanish code MV103:
incorrect calculation of a value of the M_y moment - American code ASD:
incorrect calculation of Euler stresses (Fa,Fey,Fez), if allowable stresses for wind and seismic cases are increased (Part 5, A5.2)
Verification of steel connections:
- Assigning a zero value to the width of a bracket flange when importing a connection from a model;
- Blocking calculations for a connection list;
- Replacement of forces between symmetrically-positioned diagonals in the welded truss chord node;
Standardization of definition of a bolt spacing in the spread footing for all codes (significant when the code is changed).
