SAP2000 – V12– Features & Enhancements List

Computers and Structures, Inc.’s is proud to announce the release of SAP2000 V12. The new and innovative enhancements associated with various aspects of this version are categorized below This fully integrated product for the modeling, analysis, and design of structures continues to be available in three levels: Basic, Plus and Advanced. Please contact souren@caepldhaka.com for more information.

· The Model-Alive feature provides continuous updating of the model during development and   editing, automatically re-running the analysis for every revision so that model changes are
  easily evaluated

Multi-Processor /Multi-Threading Analysis Solvers

· Lightening fast analysis times and solution capacity
  64 bit and multi-processor/multi-threading alogtriths

BrIM (Bridge Information Modeler) Enhancements

· Design for AASHTO LRFD 2007 added for concrete box-girder bridges.
  Checks include, shear, flexure, and principal-stress
· Enhanced BrIM wizard with more detail and guidance
· Span definitions simplified
· Abutments with separate bearings, abutment seat, and soil properties
· Improved bents, allowing single or dual sets of bearings
· Superstructure may be continuous or discontinuous over bents
· More control of location, alignment, and properties of bearings
· More control over restrainers at abutments, bents, and hinges

New Design Codes Related Enhancements

· AISC 360-05/IBC2006 steel-frame design code, with seismic provisions
· Direct Analysis Method of AISC 360-05 code
· Includes small P-delta effect
· Automated inclusion of stiffness modification factors, with user control
· Design-decision guidance on when Direct Analysis Method is needed
· CAN/CSA-S16-01 steel-frame design code, with seismic provisions
· Enhanced design of eccentrically braced frames for AISC 360-05/IBC 2006 and
  CAN/CSA-S16- 01 steel-frame design codes
· Canadian NBCC 2005 wind loads, seismic loads, and response-spectrum functions
· Load combinations can be converted to nonlinear load cases for advanced design
· Improved automated load combinations for design
· Enhanced display of failure modes for steel-frame design
· Hyperstatic analysis for secondary prestress forces

Staged Construction Enhancement

· Staged-construction groups may be defined as part of bridge object
· Construction scheduling using standard Gantt charts to generate
  staged-construction cases
· Control by individual objects as well as by group
· Frame end releases can be changed
· Property modifiers for frames, tendons, and shells can be changed
· Section properties for frames, tendons, and shells can be changed

Section Designer Enhancements

· Overlapping shapes allowed
· Improved Boolean operations
· Frame element fiber hinges for arbitrary sections can be defined using Section designer
· More control over material properties, including Mander model for all sections

Automated and Customized report generation

· Quick and easy generation of final printed reports
· Cover sheet
· Formatted tables of model definition, analysis and design results
· Graphical displays
· Detailed design sheets
· Can use predefined report, or customize with complete control

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

· More responsive graphical user interface
· Enhanced OpenGL graphics
· External tools developed by third parties can be accessed in SAP2000
· OpenAPI functionality is complete and available without additional license
· Users can add their own documents to be accessed through the SAP2000 Help menu
· Export of geometry and element connectivity to CSI Perform-3D
· Enhanced import of legacy program models

Open Application Programming Interface (OAPI) Free With Every SAP2000 Licence.

The OAPI for SAP2000 provides developers of products for CADD and 3D modeling seamless and efficient access to all of the sophisticated analysis and design technology of SAP2000. Third-party developers can now create rich and tight two-way links with SAP2000, allowing for accurate transfer of models into SAP2000, complete control of SAP2000 execution, and extraction of analysis and design information out of SAP2000, all from within their application. This functionality is now completely and freely available with every SAP2000 license.

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