GTSTRUDL Version 26 New Features & Expected Future Enhancements

1. GTSTRUDL Version 26New Features&Expected Future Enhancements Drs. Leroy Z. Emkin and Kenneth (Mac) Will Founders and Co-Directors Computer Aided Structural Engineering Center Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0355 U.S.A. Tel: +1-404-8942260 Fax: +1-404-8948014 email: casec@ce.gatech.edu Web Page: www.gtstrudl.gatech.edu

2. Presentation Outline • Status of Version 26 • GTSTRUDL Output Window Enhancements • New pulldowns • Modified pulldowns

3. Presentation Outline (cont) • New Features in Version 26 • GTMenu • Dynamics • Finite Element • General • Reinforced Concrete Design • Steel Design • Steel Tables • Utilities (Scope Editor) • Installation Procedure • Prerelease Features • Future Enhancements • Demonstration of Version 26

4. Version 26 Status • Documentation • Release and Installation Guides, Version 26 • GTSTRUDL User Guide: Getting Started, Revision 6 • GTSTRUDL User Guide: Analysis, Revision 2 • Verification Manual, Version 26, October 2001 • Software • All applicable provisions of the U.S. NRC 10CFR21 and 10CFR50 QA/QC and Verification to be completed • Beta testing and shipping date • Will be sent out for Beta testing in August 2001. • After one month of Beta testing and making changes as a result of Beta testing, software will then undergo QA • Estimated shipping date is October 2001

5. GTSTRUDL Output Window • Import and Export features added under File • You will be able to Import DXF files and data input files from STAAD which can then be converted into GTSTRUDL input. • You will be able to Export a DXF file which contains the model data and a CIS/2 file which contains Geometry/Loading and Results. • The new File pull-down is shown on the next slide.

6. Output Window (cont)Import and Export

7. Output Window (cont) • New Dialog History (“dh”) button to keep track of the dialogs in the current session • Allows you to quickly return to the bottom level of any pull-down menu without going through the entire tree. An example is shown on the next slide. Dialog History button

8. Output Window (cont)Dialog History (dh) Button Example By selecting an entry in the dialog history, you get to the bottom of the tree quickly.

9. Output Window (cont)Graphical Selection of Joints, Members, and Elements • As seen at the bottom of the previous slide, you will be able to graphically select joints, members, and elements in the dialogs in the GTSTRUDL Output Window. An example is shown on the next slide.

10. Output Window (cont)Graphical Selection of Joints, Members, and Elements (cont)

11. Output Window (cont) • New Data Sheet for finite element modeling data as shown below and on the next slide.

12. Output Window (cont)Data Sheet for Finite Element Modeling

13. Output Window (cont)Data Sheet for Finite Element Modeling (cont) • Columns for individual material properties such as E and Poisson may also be displayed. • You can sort by ID, Type (SBHQ6, IPLQ, etc), Thickness, and Active Status. • You can use the Filter option to limit the display to certain types of elements, thickness, or connectivity.

14. Output Window (cont) • New Commit button under: Modeling / Loads / New Loading Combinations which allows you to use the newly created loading combination as an Available without exiting the Load Combination dialog.

15. Output Window (cont)Edit Existing Load Combinations • You may now edit existing loading combinations. This new dialog is available under Modeling and then Loads as shown below:

16. Output Window (cont)Edit Loading Combination Dialog

17. Output Window (cont)New dialog for Create Automatic Load Combinations

18. Output Window (cont) • The Store Time History and Response Spectrum Dialogs now include a plotting function to display the input time history and response spectrum data.

19. Output Window (cont)

20. Output Window (cont) • The Dynamic Load Dialogs also allow for the graphical display of time history and response spectrum data.

21. Output Window (cont) • A new Dialog for the input of nonlinear spring curve data has been implemented. Included is a plotting function for the graphical display of nonlinear spring curve data. This will be shown on the next slide. • A new Dialog for the input of nonlinear spring element data has also been implemented which also contains a plotting function.

22. Output Window (cont)New Nonlinear Spring Curve Dialog Display Curve button See next slide.

23. Output Window (cont)Nonlinear Spring Curve Display

24. Output Window (cont)Text Output of Model Data • A new Dialog for the text output of model data for joints, members, elements, and loads has been developed. Previously, multiple menu picks were needed. A comparison between Version 25 and 26 is shown on the next slide.

25. Output Window (cont)Text Output of Model Data (cont) Version 26 Version 25

26. Output Window (cont)New Dialog for Text Output of Model Data (cont)

27. Output Window (cont) • New Data Sheet for joint displacements

28. Output Window (cont)Joint Displacement Data Sheet (cont) Data sheet sorted by translation X displacement

29. Output Window (cont) • A new Dialog for the graphical display of time history and steady state dynamic analysis results has been implemented. Displacements, velocities, accelerations, reactions, loads, and member forces can be displayed. • The next slide shows the graphical display of time history displacements.

30. Output Window (cont)Graphical display of the global-X displacementvs time at Joint 16 for Dynamic Load 1

31. Output Window (cont) • Steel Design Wizard has a new option which will perform a code check and then perform a design of any members that failed as shown on the next slide.

32. Output Window (cont)Steel Design Wizard New option to perform a code check and then an automatic redesign of members that failed.

33. Output Window (cont) • Copying and pasting in Data Sheets has been improved • You will now receive a warning in the Startup Wizard if you requested a “Read Only” user dataset that doesn’t exist. • The Activate/Inactivate Dialog under Modeling / Data Management now uses the standard list dialog.

34. GTMenu Improvements • The Menu Bar and the Button Bars have been changed. Results have been shifted from Display to a new selection on the Menu Bar. The ID button has been removed from the Button Bar and added under the Options pull-down on the Menu Bar. The Inquire button has been added to the button bar. These are shown on the next slide.

35. GTMenu (cont) Revised Menu and Button Bars New Results pull-down on Menu Bar New Inquire button

36. GTMenu (cont)Modified Create Dialog The Support and Release dialog and the Groups dialog are now available under the Create Pull-down.

37. GTMenu (cont) • Create Member Properties for table profiles has been changed: • Tables are now organized by the code, country, or type of table. • This has been done to make it easier to find the appropriate table. Now, you must select the table category first and then the available tables will be displayed. • You may still have all tables displayed. • The revised Table Sections for Member Property Groups is shown on the next slide.

38. GTMenu (cont)Categories for Table Member Properties

39. GTMenu (cont) • Automatic splitting (Split at Intersections) of newly created members upon user request • Create Members Only has been replaced by a Place Member dialog • Members may now be placed using three methods: • Connect End to End by stringing together existing joints • Connect Start and End by selecting both start and end joints • Specifying the start, length, and angle. You may specify the length of the member, the member’s orientation, and then the start (either an existing joint or coordinates). The member may be placed using an offset from an existing joint. • The next slide will shown the new Place Member dialog and the Start, length, and angle dialog

40. GTMenu (cont)Place Member Dialog New definition method – start, length & angle Option to automatically split at intersections

41. GTMenu (cont)Member length, & angle dialog for Place Members

42. GTMenu (cont) • The Display Model dialog has been revised: • The Mark Properties feature will now display all Section and Material Properties by default. • The Mark Joint option now indicates that only supported dof’s will be labeled. • The Orientation option has been removed under Draw Member. • The Planar Axes for two-dimensional finite elements may now be displayed under Draw Element. • The revised Draw Member dialog is shown on the next slide and the Planar Axes display is also shown.

43. GTMenu (cont)Display Model All Section or Material Groups will now be displayed by default Orientation has been removed to avoid confusion and other wording changed Planar Axes for two-dimensional finite elements has been added

44. GTMenu (cont)Finite element planar axes Planar x and y axes. The x-axis has arrow head

45. GTMenu (cont) • Loads, and the corresponding deformed shape of the structure, generated by the Moving Load command may now be animated as the load moves across the structure. The new dialog is shown on the next slide.

46. GTMenu (cont)Display Model – Moving Loads

47. GTMenu (cont)New Results pull-down

48. GTMenu (cont)Display Reactions A new pop-up dialog has been implemented for the Display of Reaction components. Selected reaction components may be displayed as vectors with or without values. Values may also be labeled just for particular joints. The next slide illustrates this new feature.

49. GTMenu (cont) - Display Reactions

50. GTMenu (cont) • A new Inquire button has been added. The user can select a joint, member, or element and have all the model data displayed in the List Output box. • Information displayed by the Inquire button in the List Output box can be selected and an edit dialog will then appear allowing you to edit the information.