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Release Date: 2010-01-06
SAFE Version 12.2.0 is an update to Versions 12.0.0 and later, and is available as a full installation
from DVD or from the ftp.
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When installing the Workstation version on a Vista system with UAC enabled, you should expect
to be prompted three times to allow the installation of the following components: SAFE 12 WS,
SafeTrialLicense, and Caspol.exe. Please allow these to continue so that the installation can
complete.
3. File Compatibility
SAFE v12 can open model files (*.FDB) from older versions of SAFE, as well as import older
SAFE V8 text files (*.F2K) and SAFE V12.0.0 and later database files (*.F2K, *.XLS, and
*.MDB). Note that once you save or run these models in Version 12.2.0, they will not be usable by
older versions of the program, so you may want to save them under a new name after opening or
importing them in Version 12.2.0.
are to mesh using localization and merging. Models from previous versions will be set to
use localization and merging if localization of any kind had previously been chosen.
Incident 19478 (Analysis): The reported transverse (plate) shear stresses (S13, S23) and
shear forces (V13, V23) have been improved. The previous values were computed from
deformations and showed substantial gradients over the element when the twisting moment
was significant. The new implementation computes the values by equilibrium from moment
gradients. The new values are nearly constant over the element and are in better agreement
with thin-plate theory, where it applies, when twisting moments are significant. There is no
substantial change in the results where the twisting moment is small. This change only
affects the reported transverse shear values. There is no change to the stiffness of the
element, to the computed deformations, nor to the reported membrane forces, plate
moments, and in-plane stresses (S11, S22, S12).
Incidents 17865 et al. (Design): Several improvements to the punching-shear design have
been made, including:
o Automatic detection of interior, edge, and corner locations of the support or load.
The user can over-write the location as desired.
o Removal of rounded corners from non-circular perimeters except for Eurocode
design.
o The effect of moments on the shear stress are now computed as specified for each
different code.
o The effect of slab openings is accounted for automatically.
o Punching shear is no longer calculated where beams and walls intersect the
punching shear perimeter.
o The user can overwrite the effective depth of slab, as well as the size and orientation
of the load or support.
See the Release Notes for more information.
Incidents 19440, 19469 (Design): The effect of post-tensioning is now considered for the
shear design of beams, leading to a more efficient design. Numerous other detailed, codebased improvements have been made to the shear design of beams, with or without posttensioning effects. See the Release Notes for more information.
Incidents 19470, 19471 (Design): The effect of post-tensioning is now considered for the
torsion design of beams, leading to a more efficient design. Numerous other detailed, codebased improvements have been made to the torsion design of beams, with or without posttensioning effects. See the Release Notes for more information.
Incidents 19441, 19472 (Design): The effect of post-tensioning is now considered for
torsion punching-shear design, leading to a more efficient design. Numerous other detailed,
code-based improvements have been made to punching-shear design, with or without posttensioning effects. See the Release Notes for more information.
Incident 20639 (Design): The Singapore National Annex to Eurocode 2 (NA to SS EN
1992-1-1 : 2008) has been implemented for concrete and post-tensioned design using
Eurocode 2-2004.
Incident 20697 (Design): The shear design for Eurocode 2 2004 has been enhanced to
optimized for angle theta in Section 6.2.3 of the code. An optimal value is now used for
any load combination that does not require which torsion design and in which seismic loads
are not present. Theta is conservatively assumed to be 45 degrees for any load combination
that does requires torsion design or that does contain seismic loads. Previously the theta
angle was conservatively assumed to be 45 degrees for all cases.
Incidents 17385, 18119 (Import/Export): Multiple enhancements have been made to the
DXF/DWG import and export:
o Strips and tendons are now imported and exported.
o Grids are now exported to DWG.
o Curved and multilinear lines are now exported as a single poly-line rather than a
series of lines.
o Curved walls are now exported.
o Plan and developed elevation are now exported; previously only 3-D views were
exported.
o Dimension lines are now imported.
See the Release Notes for more information.
Incident 18192 (Import/Export): SAFE can now import a model exported from SAP2000
V14.2.0 or later. In SAP2000, a single elevation is chosen, and all frame and area objects
connected to joints in that plane are exported as follows: (1) Horizontal frame and area
objects in the plane comprise the beam and slab system, and are imported with all properties
and loads; (2) Vertical frame and area objects that extend below the plane are treated as
columns and walls, and are imported with all properties but excluding the loads; and (3)
Vertical frame and area objects that extend above the plane are treated as columns and
walls, and are imported as equivalent loads only. Tendon objects, as well as inclined frame
and area objects, that are present in the SAP2000 model are not imported at the present
time. Linear-static, modal, and response-spectrum load cases are imported, along with their
analysis results if available, in order to represent the effect of the complete structure upon
the slab system.
Other Enhancements as detailed in ReleaseNotes.pdf.
Incidents Resolved
Incident 20573 (User Interface): An Incident was resolved in which using the object-shrink
view option could change area objects by merging together points in the object that become
too close together in the shrunken view. This would change the model. Only objects with
finely discretized curved edges were affected.
Incident 17628 (Modeling): An incident was resolved in which a beam torsional stiffness
modifier of 0.01 was being applied instead of the intended value of 0.1. This property
multiplier applies to all beams in the model.
Incident 17867 (Modeling): An Incident was resolved in which changing a material type
from rebar or tendon to concrete or steel did not change the symmetry type for the material
property (e.g., from uniaxial to isotropic) leading to obviously incorrect analysis results.
The symmetry type was correct for the original material before the material type was
changed.
Incidents 17691 et al. (Modeling): Incidents were resolved in which slab or moment
releases assigned to both sides of a line were not being applied. Releases assigned to just
one side, right or left, were being applied correctly. Now all three cases work correctly.
Incident 18731 (Modeling): An incident was resolved in which the property assigned to a
slab that has been converted from a beam using the Convert Beam to Slab edit command
was incorrect. For older models, the property assigned to slabs should be checked when this
type of editing was used to create them.
Incident 18866 (Modeling): An Incident was resolved in which changes to line spring
properties had no effect, and default values were always being used.
Incidents 17476, 18031 (Loading): Incidents were resolved in which weight modifiers
assigned to slabs and beams were not being applied.
Incident 17496 (Loading): An Incident was resolved in which line loads defined in the
global X direction were being applied in the global Z direction.
Incidents 17604, 18550 (Loading): Incidents were resolved in which a trapezoidal load
assigned to slab area was lost when model was saved.
Incident 18895, 20512 (Loading): Incidents were resolved which distributed line loads
defined over a partial length were being applied as uniform over the full length of the line,
increasing the total load applied.
Incident 19360 (Loading): An Incident was resolved in which a non-uniform line load
would be applied as a uniform line load with magnitude equal to one extreme value of the
non-uniform load. This could be conservative or unconservative.
Incidents 17351 et al. (Analysis): Incidents were resolved in which error messages or
exceptions (runtime errors) could be generated during the creation of the analysis model or
while running the analysis due to memory exhaustion for very large meshes. Memory usage
has been made more efficient, and more informative error messages have been
implemented.
Incidents 17555, 18789 (Analysis): Incidents were resolved that was causing negativemoment regions in the slab to be considered as not cracked for deflection calculations.
Cracked deflection results should be re-evaluated.
Incident 19002 (Analysis): An Incident was resolved in which the sum of individual joint
reactions did not always match the value in the Sum of Reactions table for nonlinear load
cases. This sum of the individual joint reactions was correct.
Incident 17689 (Design): An incident was resolved in which the flexural design of T-beams
was slightly unconservative when there was an axial tension acting in the beam and slightly
conservative when there was an axial compression acting in the beam. The T-beam design
was correct in absence of any significant axial force. The affected design codes were BS
8110-1997, Hong Kong CP-2004, SG CP65-1999, IS 456-2000, and Eurocode 22004. The design of rectangular beams was unaffected by this issue.
Incident 17976 (Design): The program has been modified so that the maximum strip
design-station distance is controlled by the maximum mesh size at the time of analysis. This
was previously based on the maximum mesh size at the time of drawing the strip. In
addition, design stations are now automatically introduced at all points that are explicitly
declared to be meshing points if they are close to the spine of the strip. These two changes
increase the detailed resolution of the design results. Previous results could be
unconservative if peaks were missed due to large initial mesh size.
Incident 19079 (Design): An Incident was resolved in which the concrete punching-shear
capacity was incorrect for the Eurocode 2-2004 design code. The k factor was being
calculated using incorrect units, affecting the computed concrete punching-shear capacity.
Incident 17866 (Import/Export):An Incident was resolved in which vertical distortion loads
imported from SAFE V8 were reversed in sign.
Other minor Incidents as detailed in ReleaseNotes.pdf.
specified by the user, depending on settings chosen by the user and interaction with the slab.
These rules are generally obvious. Details are described in ReleaseNotes.pdf.
Incident 16725 (Analysis): Long-term and short-term cracked section deflection analysis
now uses stiffness modifiers calculated from moment-curvature relationships. The momentcurvature relationships account for cracking, creep, shrinkage, and effects of axial loads and
generally follow the procedure given in Concrete Structures Stresses and Deformation,
by A. Ghali, R. Favre, and M. ElBadry. Previously this feature was incomplete.
Incident 16582 (Design): A new feature has been implemented that allows you to draw
user-defined reinforcement layout anywhere in the model, including specification of region,
bar size, length, cover, etc. Design will then provide the additional reinforcement needed
beyond what you have defined. The Detailer will show the total reinforcement.
Incident 16643 (Design): Chinese design has been implemented according to codes GB
50010-2004 for concrete structures, JGJ 92-2004 for prestressed concrete structures with
unbonded tendons, and JG 140-2004 for seismic design of prestress concrete structures.
Incident 16645 (Design): Punching shear design has been enhanced to account for edges
and corners according to the different design codes. Design overwrites for punching-shear
calculation have been implemented for user control. Further details are described in
ReleaseNotes.pdf
Incidents 16815, 16777 (Design): Middle and column design strips have been completely
separated for reinforce concrete design. Previously all design strips were full-width column
strips with portions simply identified as middle and column. Full-width column strips are
still used for P/T design.
Incident 16844 (Design): One-way shear design has been implemented for all codes when
using strip-based design. Previously only slab punching shear was being checked.
Incident 16846 (Design): FEM-based strength design has been enhanced to now consider
the effect of P/T. Previously this effect was not being accounted for. FEM-based design is
an effective alternative to strip-based design where strips cannot be easily or reasonably
defined.
Other minor enhancements as detailed in ReleaseNotes.pdf.
Incidents Resolved
Incident 16750 (Modeling): An Incident was resolved in which the stiffness modifiers
assigned to the slab were not active.
Incident 17147 (Modeling): An Incident was resolved in which distributed loads applied to
slabs were inadvertently also being applied to supporting walls.
Incident 16784 (Analysis): An Incident was resolved in which the rectangular meshing, in
certain complicated geometries, would leave very small triangular mesh gaps.
Incident 16894 (Analysis): An Incident was resolved in which the error message Cannot
unmarshall callback interface was generated when running the analysis out-of-process,
either explicitly or automatically for large models.
Incident 16869, 16887, 17037 (Analysis): Incidents were resolved in which uplift analysis
was unable to run in certain models and instead returned an error message.
Incident 16911 (Analysis): An Incident was resolved in which pattern-live load in a load
combination was producing incorrect values for range maximum and minimum, and hence
the combination results were incorrect.
Incident 17103 (Analysis): An Incident was resolved in which the following assignments
were lost or not handled correctly when meshing slabs and beams. For Slabs: property
modifiers and temperature loads. For Beams: property modifiers, end releases, cardinal
points, point loads, and distributed loads.
Incident 16871 (Design): An Incident was resolved in which the punching shear was not
being checked for loads coming from above, such as in base-mats and footings.
Incident 17220 (): An Incident was resolved in which the rebar produced for P/T design was
incorrect for Eurocode EC2. The results were usually over-conservative.
Incident 16578 (Detailing): An Incident was resolved in which the Bill of Quantities was
not correct and did not change with different models.
Other minor Incidents as detailed in ReleaseNotes.pdf.