GeoStudio 2012, June 2013 Release

version 8.11.1.7283

Below are the changes made to GeoStudio since the previous release.

GeoStudio 2014 Preview

A preview of GeoStudio 2014 is now available! This preview offers significant improvements to TEMP/W, including a new Land-Climate Interaction boundary condition, improved thermosyphon and convective surface boundary conditions, and support for 1D analyses.

The GeoStudio 2014 Preview is included when you install the GeoStudio 2012 June 2013 Release. Read more about the GeoStudio 2014 Preview.

All Products - New Features

The biggest changes introduced in this release that affect all GeoStudio products include faster solve times, a richer experience with .gsz files in the Windows shell, a smoother installation experience, and a Spanish language option. The full list of changes includes:

Feature: Solve times have been improved in all products, especially on computers with multiple cores.
Feature: Solve time has been improved when using the finite element Parallel Direct Equation Solver.
Feature: When opening a file created with an older version of GeoStudio (such as GeoStudio 2007) and then saving it, GeoStudio no longer strips out the old results.
Feature: Solve times have been improved when solving files with many analyses.
Feature: GeoStudio's installer has been improved, giving more help around licensing during upgrades and uninstalls.
Feature: GeoStudio files (.gsz) are now more integrated with Windows Explorer, allowing you to search for words in the file, view thumbnails and previews, and get detailed information about file properties.
Feature: GeoStudio 2012 now supports the Spanish language. Use the Edit Options command to change your language settings.
Feature: The Draw Axes command has been removed, and the Sketch Axes command improved. It now includes support for top and right axis labels, and for text in any script.
Feature: The list of graphs in Draw Graph now shows the x and y parameters.
Feature: GeoStudio licenses can be activated even if no Internet connection is available.

SLOPE/W - New Features

Feature: Reinforcement loads can be modeled with or without reinforcement anchorage.
Feature: An algorithm was developed in the GLE solution scheme to filter out some converged but physically invalid slip surfaces.
Feature: Improved the speed of solving a stability analysis using a piezometric line.
Feature: The Draw Contours command is now available in Results view, allowing you to contour PWP and material properties.
Feature: In Draw Graph, graphs can now be generated over multiple time steps, to see how data changes over time.

All Products - Additional Changes

These additional changes and bug fixes are also included:

Change: GeoStudio no longer allows you to Save As or Close a file while it is being solved.
Bug fix: Finite Element analyses of different types were not being solved in parallel.
Bug fix: In the Solve Manager docking window, checking or unchecking many analyses at once could make GeoStudio slow to respond.
Bug fix: The grid spacing controls in the status bar would not work for locales where the decimal character was anything other than ".".
Bug fix: Results view may not update automatically when new results are available.
Bug fix: In KeyIn Analyses, attempting to delete an analysis from a read-only file would fail but would not display an error message.
Bug fix: GeoStudio could crash after changing an analysis name, switching to a different analysis, then hitting Undo.
Bug fix: GeoStudio may crash when saving a file while in Define if the file contains sketch text that references fields from the Results view.
Bug fix: Several crashes and hangs in various scenarios have been fixed.
Bug fix: In View Result Information, selected nodes were not highlighted in the drawing.
Bug fix: Hitting Ctrl-Z in some dialog boxes would not appear to undo the last change.
Bug fix: Some sketch objects did not undo or redo properly.
Bug fix: In Draw Graph, some parameters could not be graphed if time step 0 was selected.
Bug fix: In Draw Mesh Properties, if invalid data is entered and an error message is displayed, the data now reverts back to the last valid value.
Bug fix: GeoStudio was unable to import DXF files from some sources.
Bug fix: In KeyIn Functions and Draw Graph, the axis labels could in some cases be displayed on the wrong tick marks.
Bug fix: In KeyIn Functions, the Add Points and Move Points buttons may be disabled until you click on View Function and then back to Edit Data Points.
Bug fix: Images (added through Sketch Pictures) would disappear after hitting Undo multiple times.
Bug fix: Opening some version 5 files could cause GeoStudio to crash.
Bug fix: When opening a file with an Add-In function that included parameters with a file path, the path separator "\" was removed.
Bug fix: In KeyIn Analyses, several bugs made it difficult to select a different analysis as source of initial conditions.
Bug fix: Analysis names containing certain % or " characters would cause the solver to fail.
Bug fix: GeoStudio may crash in KeyIn Functions if you create a function with a single point and check the "Cycle" option.
Bug fix: GeoStudio may crash when saving a file after deleting an analysis.
Bug fix: Occasionally GeoLicense.exe may crash or may continue running in the background unnecessarily.
Bug fix: For some types of analysis, results were not saved to the file if the solver was interrupted by pressing the Stop button. The results were available to be examined in Results View, but if GeoStudio was closed and then opened again, the results were no longer available.
Bug fix: The Result Times list would update itself repeatedly while the analysis was being solved, making it difficult or impossible to select a new time step.
Bug fix: GeoStudio could be unresponsive for long periods of time when disconnected from a license server.
Bug fix: In some cases GeoStudio may consume too many licenses.
Bug fix: A more helpful error message is displayed when opening a file without appropriate licenses.
Bug fix: While solving, the progress bar may disappear unexpectedly.
Bug fix: GeoStudio may crash when opening a file created by GeoStudio 2007, if GeoStudio 2007 would have displayed an error while opening it.
Bug fix: When saving a file using the Save As XML option and saving overtop of an existing xml file, all files and subfolders in the same folder may have been deleted.
Bug fix: In some cases GeoStudio was unable to print.
Bug fix: If GeoStudio 2007 was uninstalled after GeoStudio 2012 was installed, and if the GeoStudio 2012 installer was no longer available, shortcuts to GeoStudio 2012 would ask for the location of the .msi file.

SLOPE/W

Change: GeoStudio now allows a material's Total Phi to be set to zero in a staged rapid drawdown analysis.
Bug fix: The solver may crash while solving a SLOPE/W Finite Element analysis with "Optimize critical slip surface location" enabled.
Bug fix: The solver may crash when dealing with many slip slices.
Bug fix: In a staged rapid drawdown analysis where materials above the water table had different unit weights, slice weights could be computed incorrectly (using the wrong water table).
Bug fix: For the S=f(Overburden) soil strength model, a negative pore water pressure is now ignored in the computation of the effective overburden stress.
Bug fix: The option to include Ru and BBar values with a piezometric line was not enabled.
Bug fix: The min and max values were not updating when the standard deviation of a probability distribution function was changed.
Bug fix: When opening a file created by GeoStudio 2007, probabilistic columns may be displayed in the Slip Surfaces docking window even if it was not a probabilistic analysis.
Bug fix: When opening a GeoStudio 2007 file with an optimized slip surface, the optimized slip surface would not be displayed in GeoStudio 2012.
Bug fix: Saving a file in the GeoStudio 2007 format would lose the Unit Weight, Cohesion Prime, and Phi Prime material properties.
Bug fix: If a SIGMA/W and a SLOPE/W analysis shared a common material, and if in SLOPE/W the material's weight, cohesion, or sigma were changed to a linear function, the edit box for that particular property would no longer be visible under KeyIn Materials in the SIGMA/W analysis.
Bug fix: Stopping a solve would display an error unnecessarily.
Bug fix: Reinforcement loads could be computed incorrectly if the load only intersects the passive side of the slip surface.
Bug fix: In View Slice Information, the Base Shear Mobilized Force and Base Shear Mobilized Stress were not displayed correctly.
Bug fix: In some cases, viewing slide mass information would produce unnecessary data.
Bug fix: GeoStudio may crash when defining a Staged Rapid Drawdown analysis, contouring PWP, then changing the PWP option.
Bug fix: In KeyIn Radius, Grid, or Block, points would be displayed at the wrong coordinates if values were typed into the edit boxes.
Bug fix: In View Slice Information, when printing, no result data is printed.
Bug fix: After changing the number of critical slip surfaces to save, you would have to exit GeoStudio, then re-open the file for Results view to display the new number of slip surfaces.
Bug fix: Pasting data into the KeyIn Point Loads list could cause GeoStudio to crash.
Bug fix: In some rare cases, ponded water would not be displayed in its entirety.

SEEP/W

Bug fix: GeoStudio could crash after entering invalid values when estimating volumetric water content and K functions.
Bug fix: In KeyIn Analyses, adding a Convective Heat Transfer analysis or a Density-Dependent analysis could end up creating four new analyses rather than two.

SIGMA/W

Bug fix: GeoStudio could crash after entering invalid values when estimating volumetric water content and K functions.
Bug fix: If a SIGMA/W and a SLOPE/W analysis shared a common material, and if in SLOPE/W the material's weight, cohesion, or sigma were changed to a linear function, the edit box for that particular property would no longer be visible under KeyIn Materials in the SIGMA/W analysis.

QUAKE/W

Bug fix: No results were available in View Result Information when selecting a beam.
Bug fix: The solver may crash when solving an Insitu analysis that uses a Spatial PWP function.

TEMP/W

Bug fix: In KeyIn Analyses, adding a Convective Heat Transfer analysis could end up creating four new analyses rather than two.

CTRAN/W

Bug fix: In KeyIn Analyses, adding a Density-Dependent analysis could end up creating four new analyses rather than two.

VADOSE/W

Bug fix: GeoStudio could crash after entering invalid values when estimating volumetric water content and K functions.
Change: When importing climate data, GeoStudio now ensures the data set has a unique name.

GeoStudio 2012, June 2013 Release