ROBOT Millennium v. 20.1 Maintenance Pack 1-3

Robot Millennium 20.1 – Maintenance Pack 3 – November 2007

1.    Structure calculations

• Enhancements in selection of overlapping lines
• Correction of descriptions of structure axes

• Preserving a ”frozen” FE mesh if meshes are adjusted automatically
• Corrections concerning loads:
  • verification of loads on contours,
  • possibilities to force displacements for partial elastic supports.
•  Supplements to steel section databases (GOST and RPOL).
• Correction of generation of elastic linear supports for shells.

• Correction in calculations for supports with friction.
• Enhancements in calculations of buckling in the non-linear analysis by means of the BFGS method.
• Correction in calculations for a non-linear support defined at the “master” node of a rigid link.

• Removal of a fatal error on opening a table of bars and deflections for RC sections.
• Unblocked calculation notes if the “My documents” folder is moved to the root.

• Correction of work of selected methods of ”com” interface (ROS):
  • unneeded deletion of supports when modifying object geometry,
  • correct information about the list of objects of a given story.

2. RC Calculations

• Preserving data while copying ”Inspector” elements.
• Taking account of a change of a level name in drawings.

• Acceleration of reinforcement generation and correction of map display.

• BAEL91 code: corrections of generation of ‘bielles’.

• ACI code: correction of capacity surfaces for seismic combinations.
• BAEL91 code: correction of fire resistance calculations for slender columns.

• ACI, BS, CSA, EC7: correction of values of stress in the soil for bi-directional bending.

3.    Steel Calculations

• ASD: increased value of admissible stresses is correctly taken into account.
• EC3:  correction of bending verification for large transversal forces
• AIJ-ASD, BS 5950:2000, BSK99, GB50017-2003, NS 3472:2001, SNIP II-23-81, STAS10108/0-78: Correction of an incorrect buckling length in calculations of groups.

• Removal of a fatal error on opening a project with connections defined according to different codes.
• CM66:  
  •  correction of resistance of the beam-beam connection
  • removal of a fatal error of calculations and indefinite partial results,
  • correction of verification of anchor lengths for a fixed column base.
• Generation of a fixed column base in the place of a fixed elastic support.

• Timber column design according to CB71 – correction of fire resistance calculations for rotated sections.

Robot Millennium 20.1 – Maintenance Pack 2A – July 2007

Structure calculations

•  Removal of the error of text file analysis that occurs for *.str files including the definition/calculation set for steel members.

Robot Millennium 20.1 – Maintenance Pack 2 – July 2007

1. Structure calculations

Graphic viewer:

• Correction of graphics-related errors occurring for some cards working in the environment of the Windows Vista system

• New databases of cold-bent steel sections for the markets of the USA and Canada.
• Extension of file saving/reading in the CIS/2 format:
  • import of relative section offsets
  • import of steel sections taking account of alternative names in section databases

Calculations:

• Correction of the memory error for particular situations of supports with friction.
• Correction of the spectrum definition with an unneeded change to the logarithmic spectrum.

• Adaptations of descriptions of reaction diagrams to the currently-set preferences.

• Correction of detailed errors

• Correction of the error of loosing objects while starting calculations with switching to the drawing layout.

• BAEL code: correction of calculations of “bielles” struts

• BAEL code: correction of a calculation note
• Correction of work of calculations from the list

• Correction of detailed errors

• Possibility of calculations according to the Spanish code SEA:2006.
• Additional check of a value of the W_eff coefficient (EC3:2005) by comparison with the elastic coefficient.

• Taking account of a change of dimensions of welded bars (plate girders) in the connection update.
• CM66 code: taking account of the verification due to rotation in the pinned column base check.
• PN code: supplementation of calculation notes with information concerning some elements (plates, brackets) in the beam-column connection.

• Correction of detailed errors.

Robot Millennium 20.1 – Maintenance Pack 1 – June 2007

1. Structure calculations

Graphic viewer:

•  Windows Vista – the ”Aero” mode switched off automatically during the time the program is working
•  “Disappearing” texts restored in particular situations, e.g. after activating an animation of displacements, after changing the size of window with the opened dialog box of load case components.
•  Possibility to select a dimension line by indicating it with the cursor.

• Taking into account “lost” contour loads with automatic panel selection when orientations of the contour and the panel are opposite.
• Correction of an unjustified increment in numbering of elements while updating a structure (created with the use of the COM interface).
•  Correct definition of the label for imperfections defined by values specified by the user.
•  Correction of the definition of an elastic support (KZ value) for imperial units.

•  Removal of “error 5000” when Sturm check is switched on, for particular tasks
•  Correction of the sum of forces and reactions for models including rigid links and releases modeled by means of DSC elements.

•  Improvement of display of reinforcing bars.
•  Possibility to change a level name in the Inspector dialog box

•  Implementation of the warning that the admissible area of longitudinal reinforcement is exceeded.
•  Correction of a drawing of antishrinkage reinforcement.
•  Correction of the self-weight of T-beams imported from CBS Pro.

•  Forcing the coordination of dimensions when changing tabs in dialog boxes for definition of a spread footing.

•  Implementation of the message about the uplift of a continuous footing from the ground.
•  Return to the definition of spans resulting from the geometry of a wall that rests on the continuous footing, and not from the division of a wall into finite elements.
• Corrections of reinforcement resulting from BAEL requirements (number of bars, lap splice lengths)

•  Removal of the error of the slab wizard if the user has no right to use ROBOT OS.
•  Taking automatically into account the self-weight for slabs defined by means of the wizard.
• Corrections of verification and reinforcement of zones.

• Taking into account the reinforcement against torsion in the resultant longitudinal reinforcement.

• Possibility to verify tension bars.
• Corrections and supplements to calculations according to EC3, EU5F.

• Detailed corrections of verifying calculations according to EC3, PN and CM66