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Add the ability to see Weight Combination Summation in precede.

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4 months ago in  0 Needs review

SACS Collapse Advanced Log file to have time stamps.

This way you can see how long each iteration takes.
4 months ago in  0 Needs review

Collapse programs termination criteria - load factor continues to reduce (maximum capacity reached)

None of the below criteria reflects the main purpose of a collapse analysis - to get maximum capacity before or at collapse. 1. The load sequence has been completed. 2. The maximum deflection has been reached. 3. The maximum number of iterations ...
6 months ago in  0 Needs review

Wind Coherence Function and Decay Factors

Refer to Section 3.4.3 of Dynamic Response Manual, only Davenport Coherence Function is available. Moreover, the decay factors are fixed at 12 and 8 for Cy and Cz. The suggestion is Allow user to change the Decay factors for Davenport Coherence Fu...
7 months ago in  0 Needs review

Changing contact email to log-in to the Bentley system

It is suggest that Bentley allows to change the email which is used for log-in to bentley systems and also can provide second email or backup email in case of the 1st email is not available anymore.
7 months ago in  0 Needs review

Include footprint Group

Actually, in SACS we have the option to exclude group elements when we use the weight option "footprint weight" by the card EXCGRP (Footprint group exclusion), but sometimes the group list to include is shorter than the exclude list, it will be gr...
7 months ago in  1 Needs review

Add option to include warping for torsional resistance, similar to STAAD.Pro

Currently SACS does not have an option to consider warping for torsional resistance. This yields very high torsional rotation/deflection values . See post below for more detail. https://communities.bentley.com/products/offshore/f/maxsurf-moses-sac...
8 months ago in  0 Needs review

Temperature Variation Simulation option

My current Project requirement is to check member stresses due to temperature variation between winter season (-25 Deg C) to summer season (+40 Deg C). However, we cannot simulate this load in SACS. However, STAAD Pro can simulate the Stresses due...
8 months ago in  0 Needs review

Library sections - tidy up section names & single library

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10 months ago in  1 Needs review

Non-Linear Dynamic Analysis

SACS offers linear elastic dynamic analyses, non-linear static analyses, and non-linear analyses of equivalent static loads from linear elastic dynamic analyses, but there is no true non-linear dynamic analysis capability. This analysis type is us...
over 1 year ago in  0 Needs review