RSPile Maintenance+ Update History

Version 3.028 - December 10 2024 [Download]

1. NEW Simplified Spring Constants
2. NEW Users may select between "Automatic" and "Evenly" spaced load divisions for pile head stiffness matrix analysis
3. CHANGED Improvements to the Pile Head Stiffness Matrix Analysis Calculator methodology
4. CHANGED Removed load factors from pile head stiffness matrix dialog
5. FIXED Traction Property showing error message when switching tabs with valid grid entries
6. FIXED Load and Angle divisions appearing after unchecking the Calculate Factored Interaction M-P checkbox in the Project Settings dialog

Version 3.027 - November 7 2024 [Download]

1. FIXED Issue with RSPile crashing when files are saved in OneDrive locations
   

Version 3.026 - October 4 2024 [Download]

1. NEW Helical Pile Capacity Calculations
2. CHANGED Default transparency of 3D Interaction Surfaces set to 80%
3. CHANGED Depths for pile interface curves will no longer need to be re-entered
4. FIXED Units for pile cross section inconsistent with report generator
5. FIXED Loads from load cases containing special characters not applied to piles while importing multiple load cases
6. FIXED Appearance of pile cap in 3D cap designer view
7. FIXED Warning message for missing soil parameters when importing LPILE files
8. FIXED Improving import of duplicated load cases for multiple load case import
9. FIXED Preventing piles of length 0 being added
10. FIXED Program crash when pressing 'Delete' key on certain column headers for grid
11. FIXED Several fixes to v1 file reading
12. FIXED Improvement to display units appearance in Pile Sections dialog

Version 3.025 - June 17 2024 [Download]

1. NEW Eurocode in interaction diagram
2. NEW P-delta effect
3. CHANGED Unit system name modified to SI, USCS for metric and imperial units respectively
4. CHANGED Improved unit system for the cross-section designer
5. CHANGED Improved multiple load case import feature including: fix for flickering after computing, post import checks, and clearing cells in excel.

Version 3.024 - March 21 2024 [Download]

1. NEW Multiple load cases feature

Version 3.023 - March 8 2024 [Download]

1. FIXED issue where pile head stiffness or pushover analysis settings were enabled in capacity calculation mode which caused issues with compute. This fix applies to all files now.
2. FIXED issue with SPT-N issue where soil layers are outside the range of the defined SPT depth.
3. FIXED Load and angle division input box appearing in general tab of project settings outside the interaction diagrams tab.
4. CHANGED Added additional check on SPT-N values and depth from soil properties and soil layers. SPT-N values are referenced with respect to the ground surface.
5. CHANGED Removed ‘Show classic Menus’ from Toolbar.

Version 3.022 - October 3 2023 [Download]

1. NEW Lpile import
2. FIXED ungroup button to appear in drop-down when right-clicking on a pile.
   
3. FIXED state of pushover analysis to default (not selected) when switching between different analysis types.
   
4. FIXED pile cap location issue with load.
   
5. FIXED plot pushover showing for computed rotated piles.
   
6. FIXED use SPT with depth that was not relative to ground surface of soil.
   
7. FIXED allowable FS for zone capacity table in graph
   

Version 3.021 - September 7 2023 [Download]

1. CHANGED Message for Maintenance+ subscription.

Version 3.020 - August 11 2023 [Download]

1. NEW Axial pushover analysis
2. CHANGED 3D interaction surface moved to project settings in interaction diagrams tab
3. CHANGED Removed plot interaction diagram dialogue
4. CHANGED 3D interaction surface visualization
5. CHANGED Added y axis for interaction diagram label
6. CHANGED Defaults button back on all project settings tab
7. FIXED End bearing display issue
8. FIXED Pile length analysis to be disabled with non-uniform piles
9. FIXED Export data to excel for pushover analysis
10. FIXED Units on tz curve
11. Fixed Disabled pushover analysis for rotated piles. Also, pushover analysis is performed with only one direction (either axial or lateral)

Version 3.019 - July 04 2023 [Download]

1. NEW Tutorial 15 - capacity ratio of reinforced concrete pile.
2. FIXED RSPile - Slide2 integration when reinforced concrete pile is used
3. FIXED Interaction Diagram Points missing some points in the graph for edge cases

Version 3.018 - May 26 2023 [Download]

1. NEW 3D Interaction Diagram surface
2. CHANGED Default values for interaction diagram number of steps (12 for angle, 32 for load)
3. CHANGED Capacity ratio calculation / option only shown in reinforced concrete section
4. CHANGED Rotational stiffness removed from stiffness calculator
5. FIXED Pile head deflection Z' have units and consistent value output
   
6. FIXED Skin friction not accounting for user-defined adhesion
7. FIXED Axial resistance shows the label shear resistance
8. FIXED Skin friction yielding wrong results
9. FIXED Sections Combobox Dropdown Empty After Going to 2D View From Another Chart View
10. FIXED Stiffness matrix for axial stiffness revisited
11. FIXED Stiffness between layers are summed now, not averaged
12. FIXED Results at the end of the row shows correct behaviour of half element length of pile
    
    

Version 3.017 - March 30 2023 [Download]

1. FIXED User-defined adhesion in skin friction results
2. FIXED Chart label for axial resistance graph

Version 3.016 - March 15 2023 [Download]

1. NEW Capacity ratio of reinforced concrete sections
2. NEW Interaction Diagram Extension including factors from ACI
3. NEW Improvement to accuracy of interaction diagrams
4. FIXED Crash when the user hits ‘delete’ after clicking on name in borehole editor
5. FIXED Groundwater unit weight incorrectly defaulted to 9.81 when in imperial units
6. FIXED Issues with Bell in Pile Types Dialog
7. FIXED Issue where piles were disappearing when switching the pile analysis type

Version 3.015 - October 26 2022 [Download]

1. NEW End-bearing and Skin-friction results added to Individual Pile Analysis
   
2. NEW User Interface updated with new Ribbon Menu & Toolbars
   
3. NEW Axial Pile Head Stiffness added to Stiffness Matrix Calculator
   
4. NEW Traction Loads information added to Report Generator
   
5. NEW Ratio of steel reinforcement outputted in Reinforced Concrete Section
   
6. FIXED Graphs of Interface Curves made available for axial mode
   
7. FIXED Contour results for Soil Reaction Force Z' and Soil Stiffness Z included in Individual Pile Analysis
   
8. FIXED Dimensioning Tools in the 3D view fixed such that cursor snaps to edges/vertices properly
9. FIXED Display Results in the Same Direction as In Older Versions
   
10. FIXED Erroneous detailed results for Pushover analysis which showed no difference between displacement steps
    
11. FIXED Erroneous Unit Skin Friction for Piles with a Bell
    
12. FIXED Wrong tooltip image when hovering over piles which are battered

Version 3.014 - September 15 2022 [Download]

1. NEW Addition of interaction diagrams for reinforced piles
   
2. NEW Added results of individual displacement step for pushover analysis
   
3. FIXED Improved Section Analysis of Composite Sections
   
4. FIXED Fixed "Edit Pile Types" in context menu of group
   
5. FIXED Editing Name of Custom Contour Option Adds a New Option Instead of Updating Existing One
   
6. FIXED Report generator does not show correct reinforcement in Pile Section Properties
   
7. FIXED Disabled Graph Pile Interface Curve in Graphs menu
   
8. FIXED Enabled traction along Z axis for Axial analysis
   
9. FIXED Bug in capacity analysis (Bored and Driven) of underground piles
   
10. FIXED Adding textbox tool to the model could crash the program
    
11. FIXED Issues with calculation of skin-resistance of open-ended pipes in driven analysis
    

Version 3.013 - July 26 2022 [Download]

1. FIXED Deleting Pile Segments Does Not Re-Number the Segments and Changes the Grid Layout
2. FIXED Restrained connectivity in Group not working
3. FIXED If results files exceeds 4GB it cannot not be read properly
4. FIXED Potential infinite loop in borehole/pile interpolation

Version 3.012 - June 10, 2022 [Download]

1. NEW Pile Capacity Table Generator.
2. NEW Unit Weight of Water Input for Groundwater in Project Settings Tab.
3. CHANGED Updated Project Settings dialog to include Program Mode Selection (i.e., Capacity Calculations or Pile Analysis) and separate tabs for each.
4. CHANGED Project Settings dialog default Units are automatically saved based on current selection. Save Advanced tab settings as current defaults or restore to program defaults.
5. FIXED Sidebar View Control window not sized correctly (vertically).
6. FIXED Sidebar scrollbars were not showing correctly after resizing application window.
7. FIXED Exporting Blank Image for Resistance Graphs
8. FIXED Order of views in report generator does not match order in Report views dialog
9. FIXED Drawing issues with Legend and Soil Image when 'Copying to Clipboard'

Version 3.011 - May 11 2022 [Download]

1. FIXED Remove displacement profile from group analysis
2. FIXED Wrong unit skin friction outputted for driven analysis (Data is truncated)
3. FIXED Program crashes due to uninitialized units

Version 3.010 - April 5 2022 [Download]

1. NEW Added Raymond and Monotube piles in back in driven using pile types.
   
2. NEW New accessible contour colour options are available.
   
3. CHANGED Multi-section pile type will now be allowed in Driven Pile Analysis Type.
   
4. CHANGED Tapered piles are no longer be limited to single section. In case of multiple sections, the last section can be tapered.
   
5. CHANGED More pile types can now be tapered (e.g., pile pipes and concrete piles).
   
6. FIXED Added missing Advanced Analysis Stiffness Matrix Calculator information in Pile Settings section of Report Generator.
   
7. FIXED Some files contained erroneous nodes.
   
8. FIXED RSPile cannot compute driven model extending above ground surface.
   
9. FIXED Improved consistency of unit weight display on Soil Properties.
   
10. FIXED Improved consistency of naming on menus and tooltips.
11. FIXED Added Help link to Contour Options.
    
12. FIXED Improved default values on Concrete Designer.
    
13. FIXED Wrong depth to elevation flipping in Advanced analysis graphs.
    
14. FIXED Program Crash When Hovering Over Soil Box in 3D View For Model With Single Soil Property.
    
15. FIXED Fixed UI inconsistencies in Pile Head Stiffness Matrix Analysis dialog.
    
16. FIXED Incorrect area of rebars when analysis is in SI unit.
    

Version 3.009 - February 4 2022 [Download]

1. NEW Displacement (and other) results can be shown in their true directions on 3D view
2. CHANGED Improved layout of the Pile Section and Concrete Designer dialog windows
3. FIXED Rendering issue in 3D View of Cap Designer
4. FIXED Toolbars issue with extra padding showing up
5. FIXED Report Generator Producing Error "Encountered improper argument"
6. FIXED Crash when opening a file where soil properties were copied from one to another
7. FIXED Driven capacity computation error for H Pile section type when using Imperial units
8. FIXED 3D rendering of the soil would not update after changing pile orientation angles

Version 3.008 - December 8 2021 [Download]

1. NEW User control of project settings defaults
2. NEW Unit end bearing and unit skin friction results for driven
3. CHANGED Soil properties dialog layout
4. CHANGED Units and groundwater settings now controlled through project settings dialog
5. CHANGED Consistent user control of property lists
6. CHANGED Driven files are now computed using the external engine
7. CHANGED Grouped file computing is now significantly faster
8. CHANGED Ground slope is now defined using a slope angle, and slope direction
9. CHANGED Modeler now correctly only allows tapering of timber piles
10. FIXED Missing units in resistance graphs
11. FIXED Clicking on piles in the plan view would sometimes not select the pile properly, or show a context menu
12. FIXED Missing units in the borehole dialog
13. FIXED Missing units in the pile types dialog
14. FIXED Case where negative stiffness could be calculated when liquefied sand was used
15. FIXED Rare bug where results could vary slightly on subsequent runs of the engine
16. FIXED Bug where Method of Georgiadis layer effects were not being applied properly
17. FIXED Bug where plug condition was not being set properly for open-ended pipe piles in driven analysis
18. FIXED Bug when calculating the overburden stress for skin friction for timber piles in driven analysis
19. FIXED Bug where the soil displaced per unit length could change for subsequent runs of the engine for timber piles in driven analysis
20. FIXED Bug with the end bearing results of timber piles in driven analysis
21. FIXED Bug with the results when using tapered timber piles
22. FIXED Inconsistent labelling of pile type edit option in some context menus
23. FIXED Bug where grouped pile "Edit Pile Types..." context menu option would not work
24. FIXED Incorrect label for plastic moment capacity
25. FIXED Incorrect tool tips for pile type rotations
26. DISCONTINUED Offline help

Version 3.007 - August 13 2021 [Download]

1. CHANGED Removed 'Query' data tips option from view menu because it does nothing in RSPile
2. CHANGED Renamed 'None' data tips to 'Off' in the view menu to be consistent with the status bar
3. FIXED Bug with the results of grouped pile analysis when the cap is not centered at (0, 0)
4. FIXED Crash when trying to add a new pile in an old file that contained no piles
5. FIXED Bug where custom rebar size would not be saved after defining it
6. FIXED Bug where pile type image was appearing in min data tip mode
7. FIXED Bug where changing data tip type from the view menu wouldn't update the status bar
8. FIXED Bug where changing data tip type from the view menu wouldn't save selection to the registry

Version 3.006 - June 30 2021 [Download]

1. NEW Option to toggle whether Method of Georgiadis is applied
2. NEW Skin Friction Unit Resistance and End Bearing Unit Resistance graphs for Bored analysis
3. NEW Display option to view reinforced and pre-stressed concrete cross sections in the plan view
4. NEW Local axis labels in the concrete designer preview
5. NEW Unit labels to pile traction column headers
6. NEW Pile Type workflow for defining piles
7. NEW Belled piles in Bored and Axial/Lateral analysis
8. NEW RSPile will now launch the What's New page for the program whenever a new version is installed
9. CHANGED Moved vertical axis controls from the menu and display options to the graph view sidebar
10. CHANGED Local axes to be aligned correctly with the global axes by default
11. CHANGED Many Driven pile section fields to be input in meters instead of millimeters
12. CHANGED Many program default values to be more reasonable
13. FIXED Bug in the output moment curvature curve with asymmetric sections
14. FIXED Bug in stiffness calculation with Lateral Soft Clay Soil
15. FIXED Bug where an error code would not be shown when the engine reached max iterations
16. FIXED Bug with Top Deflection X/Y results in pushover analysis in some cases
17. FIXED Bug which could cause Z stiffness to be negative for Weak Rock
18. FIXED Bug where Y and Z stiffness values would be incorrect for low displacement values for Submerged Stiff Clay
19. FIXED Bug which was causing an incorrect P-Y curve for Sand model by Reese
20. FIXED Bug that could cause the program to hang with some reinforced concrete models
21. FIXED Bug allowing multipliers less than 1 which would cause the engine to hang or fail to converge
22. FIXED Bug where graph view chart columns would sometimes shrink
23. FIXED Bug causing saturated unit weight check to be reset whenever a user would change soil types
24. FIXED Bug allowing users to enter ground slope angle in Driven/Bored analysis even though it wouldn't be used
25. FIXED Bug allowing users to perform pile length analysis on non-uniform piles
26. FIXED Bug causing incorrect memory values to appear in the tech support information
27. FIXED Crash when trying to add pile interface curve graph view to a report
28. FIXED Bug causing negative depth values to appear in the soil layer section of the report
29. FIXED Bug causing the cross section combo to become hidden in some cases
30. FIXED Bug preventing users from using their own custom reinforcement databases
31. FIXED Bug causing incorrect discretization and compute failure in some rare cases
32. FIXED Bug which would sometimes cause the wrong coordinates to be used when setting a pile or borehole as soil legend
33. FIXED Bug where Q-Z curve was incorrectly labelled as Q-W curve
34. FIXED Bug causing some icons to display incorrectly
35. FIXED Bug causing incorrect values to be imported when importing loads for pile caps
36. FIXED Bug where the incorrect tooltip was being shown for Mosher Sand User Defined Es field
37. FIXED Bug which could cause data tips to flicker rapidly in some cases
38. FIXED Bug which would cause names to display incorrectly if they contained the '&' character in many dialogs
39. FIXED Bug where moment capacity values were not properly denoted as being in local coordinates
40. FIXED Bug where viewing the graph of a pile with no loading would cause the program to freeze and eventually crash
41. FIXED Bug where invalid symbols would be imported from certain file types when trying to import a pile pattern
42. FIXED Bug allowing invalid pile number values when importing a pile pattern
43. FIXED Some dialogs had invalid context help links
44. DISCONTINUED Raymond Uniform Taper driven piles
45. DISCONTINUED Monotube driven piles

Version 3.005 - November 25 2020 [Download]

1. CHANGED Updated report generator cover page information (date created = the date the report is created)
2. CHANGED Updated right click menu of Edit Pile and Edit Pile Pattern caption as well as icons
3. CHANGED New analysis mode icons
4. CHANGED New look for most icons
5. FIXED Issue with edit charts which ensure options are enabled for all graph tabs
6. FIXED Issue to ensure correct width and depth is used for typical sections
7. FIXED Issue to correctly consider groundwater effect when saturated unit weight checkbox is turned off
8. FIXED Minor issue with group effects when no shear load is present

Version 3.004 - October 31 2020 [Download]

1. NEW Bored pile capacity analysis mode - new soil/rock and pile types
2. NEW Saturated unit weight checkbox added to allow more control of used unit weight
3. FIXED Issue with user defined pile section to use correct equivalent diameter in calculations
4. FIXED Drawing issue to consider equivalent diameter in user defined pile sections
5. FIXED Issue with stiff cohesive soil calculation in Driven pile capacity mode
6. FIXED Area conversion for user defined sections Cross Section units feature
7. FIXED Overburden pressure calculation for water table elevations below a number of soil/rock layers

Version 3.003 - July 15 2020 [Download]

1. NEW Pile location can now be specified at time of entry rather than graphically only
2. NEW All Piles now have an unique number that can be edited rather than always auto-assigned
3. NEW Rectangular pattern can be converted to custom and edited (e.g. add/delete piles or change locations)
4. NEW Report generator replaces Info Viewer to provide more flexibility
5. CHANGED Updated visuals such as icons to streamline with other Rocscience products
6. FIXED Issue in laterally loaded pile sand and silt models when effective slope angle is close to or greater than friction angle - warnings added.
7. FIXED Issue in axially loaded API clay in max alpha parameter computed.
8. FIXED Issue when using both group effect factors and p-y, t-z or Q-z multipliers.

Version 3.002 - April 3 2020 [Download]

1. FIXED HTML export for multiple piles that would only output data for a random single pile
2. FIXED HTML export where graph images would not always show
3. NEW Added Peripheral Bars feature for rectangular pattern in concrete designer
4. NEW Added Edit Coordinates feature for converting radial or rectangular pattern to custom in concrete designer

Version 3.001 - March 5 2020 [Download]

1. NEW Maintenance+ version released.