News

The following chapters provide you with the latest information and the most important changes with respect to the previous version 23 (PDF Info).

General Information

• In the 'Page Setup' dialog, the minimum line width for the screen display can now be explicitly selected.
• A 'Mass centers of gravity' function has been added to the structure description. This can be used to display the masses and their respective centers of gravity for the objects of selectable partial views.
  The masses from loads, if calculated, can also be taken into account.
• Spring elements can now be analyzed with 'Friction'. With this, a wide range of contact problems can be investigated. Further possibilities also arise for the pushover method, e.g. in connection with precast elements.
• Line joints have also been supplemented with the options 'Friction' and 'Contact'.
• Non-linear spring characteristics can now be defined for line hinges.
• The load case and the load case combination forces in the line hinges can now be displayed graphically. The nodal forces are also available in tabular form.
• Load cases can now be exchanged via clipboard.
• A geometric beam load and surface load have been added for the temperature load. Now an element-independent temperature load is also available.
• The 'Change end point' function has been added for UDL loads.
• The 'Select group' command now also filters different load types and the line hinges in the model surfaces.
• A table with the cross-section values of all polygons has been added.
• The cross-sections of existing design objects can be rearranged.
• The dialog for the calculation settings has been revised.
• Settings in the stack calculation can be saved without starting it directly.

Reinforced Concrete Composite Sections

• For reinforced concrete composite sections, the concrete checks according to SIA 262 and EN 1992-1-1/1992-2 with the National Annexes can now also be carried out  for the ultimate limit state.
  - Design for bending and longitudinal force
  - Design for shear force and torsion
  - Checks of the robustness reinforcement
  - Checks of the shear joint

Nonlinear Analysis / Soil Model Mohr-Coulomb

• To calculate the load-bearing behavior of soils, the Mohr-Coulomb material law was implemented for solid elements. The input parameters for this are the friction angle, the dilatancy angle and the cohesion.
• The Phi-C reduction method was implemented to estimate the stability of slopes.

Dynamics

• For time step calculations, the velocities and accelerations of all time steps are now also saved and displayed. The resultants are also made available.

Bridge Checks according to EN 1992-2

• The British Standard BS EN 1992-2 and the Swedish Standard SS EN 1992-2 (EKS 9 / EKS 11) have been added to the bridge construction checks. The following verifications have been implemented:
  • Design for bending and longitudinal force
  • Design for shear force and torsion
  • Checks of the robustness reinforcement
  • Checks of the shear joint
  • Checks against fatigue for concrete under longitudinal force, shear force and torsion
  • Checks against fatigue for reinforcing steel and prestressing steel
  • Checks of decompression
  • Checks of crack reinforcement, calculation of crack width
  • Checks of concrete stresses
  • Checks of reinforcing and prestressing steel stresses

Single Crack Width Check

• The check for reinforcing steel with freely definable yield strength has been supplemented.

BIM / ICX

• The ICX interface has been extensively expanded. For example, it is now possible to exchange load case combinations, reinforcement layers, etc.. The complete EXPRESS scheme is listed in the file Icx-03.html.

BIM / IFC

• Data exchange in IFC 4.3 format in accordance with ISO 16739-1:2024 was implemented.

InfoCopy Utility

• Files that are in use are excluded from the copying process and reported.

License Manager for Network Licenses

• The license manager can now optionally update the license data automatically at regular intervals.