GeoStudio 2012, July 2012 Release
version 8.0.5.6073
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the latest releaseBelow are the changes made to GeoStudio since the previous release.
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- Feature: GeoStudio 2012 is now available in Simplified Chinese (PRC). By default, GeoStudio will automatically use the Chinese language when run on a computer whose language is set to Simplified Chinese (PRC), and will run in English in all other cases. To change the language, choose Edit - Options from the GeoStudio menu, then pick the desired language from the list. Our thanks to CnTech Co., Ltd. for their invaluable help with the translation.
- Feature: An improved installer and new tools are available for setting up a network license server. Further instructions are available online in a PDF file titled "Setting Up an Lmadmin License Server" at http://www.geo-slope.com/downloads/utilities.aspx.
- Feature: Speed improvements have been made while saving changes to disk, resulting in improved solve times and file save times, especially for larger projects.
- Feature: Wherever lists are displayed (such as the Slip Surface window), columns can be rearranged by dragging them, sorted by clicking on a column header, or hidden by right-clicking on a column header.
- Change: A number of changes were made to better support localization when displaying or entering values, such as using the correct decimal character, thousands separator, and list separator.
- Bug fix: Under certain conditions, GeoStudio was unable to solve some analyses, displaying an error about failing to open the file.
- Bug fix: Inserting a picture with Sketch Pictures caused GeoStudio to lose its geometry if there was a missing picture already in the list.
- Bug fix: GeoStudio now allows viewing results for an analysis whose parent analysis is not solved, as long as it does not depend on results from the parent.
- Bug fix: When starting GeoStudio, GeoLicense would sometimes crash while checking for updated licenses.
- Bug fix: The finite element solvers would crash if an analysis used more than 255 materials.
- Bug fix: Files with Chinese names could not be opened from the Start Page. This issue likely affected other languages as well.
- Bug fix: DXF files generated while in Results View could be corrupted and impossible to open in AutoCAD.
- Bug fix: Boundary conditions could not be changed after cloning an analysis.
- Bug fix: When installed for the first time on a computer, GeoStudio would not display the File toolbar.
- Bug fix: When a file's time units are set to "Unspecified" (in Set Units and Scale), Draw Graph would not show any graphs that included a time dimension.
- Bug fix: Opening a GeoStudio 2007 file in GeoStudio 2012 would sometimes display upgrade warning messages that did not apply.
- Bug fix: Removing the grid values in the Set Grid Spacing command could cause GeoStudio to crash.
- Bug fix: GeoStudio could crash when navigating the menu using the keyboard.
- Bug fix: In Draw Isolines, a selection of "All" or "Last" time steps would not be remembered when switching between analyses.
- Bug fix: In Draw Graph, select "All" time steps, change analyses, and the "All" would change to "Custom" and the graph would not display until time steps were re-selected.
- Bug fix: In Draw Graph, if "Custom Locations" were chosen while solving, they would not be saved.
- Bug fix: When restoring the GeoStudio window on a monitor to the left of the primary monitor, the leftmost column in lists would be too narrow.
- Bug fix: In certain graphs (including Slip Surface graphs), and when the axis range was negative, GeoStudio could crash when setting the option to view the graph in log format.
SLOPE/W
- Feature: SLOPE/W can now handle any arbitrary shape of the Shear-Normal strength function. The restriction of a function with positive slope is no longer required. Equivalent C and Phi values are computed to represent the specific strength at any effective normal stress at the base of a slice.
- Change: Slices with positive pore water pressure will be reported as having a pore air pressure of zero, because in such cases the pore air pressure is not used.
- Bug fix: When using an external file for PWP or Stress conditions in a SLOPE/W analysis, we may get incorrect values or crash during Solve or when switching into Results view and viewing a different slip surface.
- Bug fix: The solver would crash when encountering a slip surface with invalid material properties such as a negative unit weight, negative cohesion, or negative frictional angle. This may happen in probabilistic analyses when the distribution of the material parameters are not restricted (or capped) to be in the positive range. Now the slip surface will be given a 988 error code instead.
- Bug fix: SLOPE/W now better supports special cases in reinforcement, such as when the reinforcement starting point is defined inside the sliding mass, or when a reinforcement intersects the slip surface in multiple locations.
- Bug fix: When computing the geosynthetic bond strength at the base of a slice, the overburden stress was not being included in the surcharge load.
- Bug fix: The solver would crash when encountering an air gap with a zero volume. This condition can be caused by regions that are drawn next to each other but without sharing a line or point. Now such a condition will generate an error instead of crashing.
- Bug fix: Occasionally, the Draw Safety Map button in the toolbar would be unresponsive.
- Bug fix: The solver reports a 998 error under certain conditions, such as slip surfaces that intersect the bottom of the section because the ground surface line is not long enough.
- Bug fix: The solver could crash when a circular floating region shared a point with a background region.
- Bug fix: The solver was unable to find the intersecting point of a reinforcement load under certain conditions.
- Bug fix: When working in Results View with an analysis solved by an older version (e.g., GeoStudio 2007) using Grid and Radius, factor of safety contours may not be displayed, and it may not be possible to select slip surfaces graphically.
- Bug fix: After saving a GeoStudio 2012 file in GeoStudio 2007 format, if the file contained contours in a SLOPE/W analysis, GeoStudio 2007 would crash when trying to open the file.
- Bug fix: GeoStudio would crash when working with a file created in GeoStudio 2007 containing a GLE analysis with an optimized slip surface.
- Bug fix: The factor of safety displayed in the toolbar may not update when changing analyses.
- Bug fix: It was not possible to abort solving a probabilistic analysis, nor during the slip surface optimization sequence.
- Bug fix: For staged rapid drawdown analyses, a Total Phi of zero is now allowed.
- Bug fix: It was not possible to use arrow keys to navigate through the list of slip surfaces in the Slip Surfaces docking window when the Slice Information dialog was also displayed, because focus would go to the Slice Information window every time a new slip surface was selected.
SIGMA/W
- Change: Interface elements may now be given secondary nodes on any element edge. Previously the short edges were not allowed to have secondary nodes.
- Bug fix: Stress boundary conditions applied to the short edge of an interface element were not being distributed to the nodes.
- Bug fix: KeyIn Materials would not allow entering a unit weight of zero.
QUAKE/W
- Bug fix: KeyIn Materials would not allow entering a unit weight of zero.
- Bug fix: GeoStudio would occasionally crash under Windows XP when viewing a QUAKE/W analysis and switching into Results View
TEMP/W
- Bug fix: The adaptive time stepping algorithm could use the wrong climate data sets when calculating the time of salient events (e.g., sunrise, sunset, and rainfall onset and end).
VADOSE/W
- Bug fix: The adaptive time stepping algorithm could use the wrong climate data sets when calculating the time of salient events (e.g., sunrise, sunset, and rainfall onset and end).
