Oasys ADC 8.0 Build 6 - Release Notes

Contents

• Overview
• Status
• New Features
• Bugs Fixed
• Bugs Outstanding

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Overview

ADC 8.0 offers the analysis and design of:

• reinforced concrete columns (AdCol) to the requirements of BS8110, Hong Kong Code of Practice and Eurocode 2; and
• reinforced concrete beams, ribbed slabs and flat, one-way spanning slabs (AdBeam) to the requirements of BS8110 and Hong Kong Code of Practice.

Status

This is a general issue of ADC. It is a validated version.

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New Features

There are no new features. ADC 8.0 Build 6 has the same features as ADC 8.0 Builds 4 and 5, but includes the bug fixes listed below.

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Bugs Fixed

The following bugs in ADC 8.0 Builds 4 and 5 have been fixed in this version.

General

• Selecting the Wizard option via the context menu in some tables fails to open the Wizard.
  [NCR23] (Fixed 19 April 2005; released in Adc.exe 8.0.6.0)
• Output is printed in condensed form only.
  [NCR24] (Fixed 17 May 2005; released in Adc.exe 8.0.6.0)
• ADC may crash upon opening files by double-clicking the filename via 'File | Open' or the 'Recent Files' list if the file has a long filename or is held in a deep folder structure. This bug is avoided if the file is opened instead by selecting it via a single-click, and then clicking the 'Open' button.
  [NCR41] (Fixed 3 November 2005; released in Adc.exe 8.0.6.0)
• ADC's 'About Dialog' fails to list all of the program's components.
  [NCR42] (Fixed 4 November 2005; released in Adc.exe 8.0.6.0)
• Formatting scientific values to n significant figures may produce errors (e.g. 8.99999 to 4 sig figs gives 8.100 rather than 9.000).
  [NCR45] (Fixed 10 November 2005; released in OaUtil.dll 3.0.15.1)

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AdCol

• If the required cover is not a multiple of 5 mm, then AdCol should round it up to the nearest 5 mm. However, in some circumstances AdCol may add 5 mm to the cover unnecessarily if the minimum cover is 40 mm or more.
  [NCR20] (Fixed 17 May 2005; released in AdBeam.dll 8.0.5.1)
• If the user switches from biaxial bending to uniaxial bending in AdCol, then Mzz moments should be disabled and ignored. This adjustment may not always be made, so design moments may show a moment about the z axis, and axial force/moment charts may show a moment angle not equal to 0 degrees.
  [NCR21] (Fixed 17 May 2005; released in Adc.exe 8.0.5.0 and AdcData.dll 8.0.6.0)
• AdCol gives incorrent results when a user defined reinforcement or concrete materials are used.
  [NCR36] (Fixed 7 July 2005; released in Adc.exe 8.0.5.0)
• ADC corrects the sign of column moment results incorrectly when reading and writing via AdExport during automated testing. This affects comparisons of test results only, and not results that are evident to the user via the program's interface.
  [NCR46] (Fixed 10 November 2005; released in AdExport.dll 8.0.5.0)
• AdCol files, containing large numbers of sections, may take a long time to save after performing section validation. This is particularly evident when saving over a network. (Part 1 of 2 - see NCR 48 for Part 2).
  [NCR47] (Fixed 28 November 2005; released in AdFile.dll 8.0.4.1)

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AdBeam

• AdBeam crashes when a user load factor is deleted from the input data.
  [NCR17] (Fixed 4 April 2005; released in AdcData.dll 8.0.5)
• AdBeam may fail to present the full list of warnings/errors upon attempting a design, though the design results are unavailable - indicating that design has not been performed.
  [NCR19] (Fixed 8 April 2005; released in AdBeam.dll 8.0.5.0)
• The setting to include beam self weight is saved when set in the General Specification dialog, but not when set in the Load Details page of the New Model Wizard.
  [NCR25] (Fixed 12 May 2005; released in Adc.exe 8.0.5.0 and AdcData.dll 8.0.6.0)
• When designing a solid slab AdBeam invites the user to enter a side cover unnecessarily.
  [NCR18] (Fixed 17 May 2005; released in Adc.exe 8.0.6.0)
• ADC does not check correctly whether the maximum shear in a beam exceeds the BS8110 limit of 0.8 x √f_cu or 5N/mm². It checks the shear at a distance 'd' from supports rather that at the supports.
  [NCR26] (Fixed 6 May 2005; released in AdBeam.dll 8.0.6.0)
• Designs that contained bunched bars in ADC 7.2 may fail to be achieved in ADC 8.0. The warning 'Error in beam design' may be shown.
  [NCR29] (Fixed 7 June 2005; released in AdBeam.dll 8.0.5.0)
• AdBeam may fail to analyse a model, or may even crash, due to unitialised materials. This problem occurs when the Section Wizard is used in the 'span and support details' page of the New Model Wizard to enter upper or lower column sections. To avoid the problem either (a) enter the section descriptions directly without clicking the 'Section' button (but instead by typing e.g. 'STD R 300 300') or (b) upon completion of the New Model Wizard, initialise the materials by opening the materials dialog from the program's gateway, and clicking 'OK'.
  [NCR31] (Fixed 24 June 2005; released in Adc.exe 8.0.5.0)
• The 'Notional Loads' table view shows a column 'Direction'. This is not necessary, since the sign of the load indicates its direction.
  [NCR34] (Fixed 24 June 2005; released in Adc.exe 8.0.6.0)
• It should be possible to click the 'standard' or 'user-defined' title in the gateway and have the already opened table view change the active tab. This does is not functioning correctly for the 'Load Factors' and 'Load Combinations' tables.
  [NCR35] (Fixed 24 June 2005; released in Adc.exe 8.0.6.0)
• AdBeam may give misleading solutions for a beam that is unreinforceable e.g. it may suggest a solution of T16 bars when the maximum bar size is limited to 50 mm, but appear to fail to find the same solution when the maximum bar size is 80 mm. AdBeam has in fact failed to recognise that the section was unreinforceable in both cases.
  [NCR37] (Fixed 14 July 2005; released in AdBeam.dll 8.0.6.0)
• AdBeam may recommend solutions whose longitudinal reinforcement in tension is spaced at more than the maximum allowed by the design code or the reinforcement detailing manual.
  [NCR38] (Fixed 8 August 2005; released in AdBeam.dll 8.0.6.0)
• The Loads table in the Output View shows the values of the loads but not their positions. The values are mis-aligned with their column headers.
  [NCR40] (Fixed 13 September 2005; released in Adc.exe 8.0.6.0)
• AdBeam may crash when designing a flat slab or ribbed slab after installing the patch version 8.0.6.0 of AdBeam.dll.
  [NCR44] (Fixed 10 November 2005; released in AdRib.dll 8.0.5.0 and AdSlab.dll 8.0.5.0)

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Bugs Outstanding

The following bugs were known to exist at the time of release.

General

• DXF exports from ADC may produce errors when read into AutoCAD.
  [NCR 4]
• ADC 8.0 offers the design code option of "Hong Kong Code of Practice 2004". In fact what is selected by this option is what was previously labelled "BS8110 (Hong Kong)" and is "Hong Code Code of Practice 1987".
  [NCR39]

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AdCol

• AdCol files may take a long time to save. This is particularly evident when saving over a network. (Part 2 of 2 - see NCR 47 for Part 1).
  [NCR48]

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AdBeam

• The design stage may design links such that the distance from longitudinal bars is greater than the BS8110 limit of 150 mm.
  [NCR 3]
• Output of effective depth and its value used in calculations is misleading when the bar size of the solution is not the size of the largest bar allowed by the user.
  [NCR 7]
• ADC may propose a design that has a spacing between longitudinal bars that is less than the user-specified minimum.
  [NCR 16]
• The online help incorrectly suggests that the user has control over whether 'd' should be used when determining the position of the shear check.
  [NCR27]
• The graphic view may fail to show all the longitudinal bars that are recommended by the design. The textual output view details the correct number of bars. [NCR28]
• The Wizard button should be disabled for the Redistribution table if redistribution results are available, and for the Covers table if design results are available.
  [NCR43]
• The use of links for slab design is misleading as these are not offered in the final solution.
  [NCR 49]
• AdBeam's Redistribution table should be clearer that % values must be entered as e.g. "15%" rather than "15". If the latter is entered then AdBeam assumes that this is e.g. 15kNm.
  [NCR 50]
• ADC may crash when opening a file saved from AdSec.
  [NCR 51]
• The reported values of permissble moment redistribution may be incorrect.
  [NCR 52]
• Check for cover may mislead when the bar limits specified by the user exceed the maximum available bar size.
  [NCR 53]
• The default list of available bar sizes should not list non-standard bars.
  [NCR 54]

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Last modified: 31 March 2006
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