Rev. 5.03 Bug Fixes

Rev. 5.03 Bug Fixes

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REV NO: REV 503.001

DATE: March 26, 1996 Discovered By: G. Le Marishal

Description Of Problem

The forces produced with V_EXFORCE are not correct.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.002

DATE: April 01, 1996 Discovered By: Carl Webb

Description Of Problem

A -tide option on &env does not work properly for a an exterior compartment made up of a mesh.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.003

DATE: April 08, 1996 Discovered By: G. Maldonado

Description Of Problem

A solution for very taught mooring lines may not be found.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.004

DATE: April 10, 1996 Discovered By: R. Burger

Description Of Problem

User defined loads do not work correctly with lcase -process.

Programs Affected: MOSES

REV NO: REV 503.005

DATE: April 22, 1996 Discovered By: R. Burger

Description Of Problem

Compartments filled with &compartment -slosh -perc xxx 100 will not be filled corectly. However, if the 100 above is replaced with 99.8, then they will be correct.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.006

DATE: April 27, 1996 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

If one changes connector data after he has computed frequency domain response, and then recomputes the frequency response, the new results will use to old connector data.

Programs Affected: OSCAR II, MOSES

REV NO: REV 503.007

DATE: April 27, 1996 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

If a system is completly fixed, then the frequency response takes quite a while to converge.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.008

DATE: April 27, 1996 Discovered By: Carl Webb

Description Of Problem

A body which has been declared "inactive" will still show up in a plot.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.009

DATE: April 27, 1996 Discovered By: Carl Webb

Description Of Problem

A body which has been deactivated will loose its initial location if an &EQUI is performed before it is reactivated.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.010

DATE: April 30, 1996 Discovered By: Carl Webb

Description Of Problem

Tank which have a bottom above the keel may have as error "Tank Has Zero Volume" even if they are properly modeled.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.011

DATE: May 14, 1996 Discovered By: R. Naclhinger

Description Of Problem

Tiedowns with offsets are not plotted correctly when &pltmod struct is used.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.012

DATE: May 16, 1996 Discovered By: Bill Smith

Description Of Problem

The direction of the current reported with &status env is wrong by 180 degrees.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.013

DATE: May 16, 1996 Discovered By: Tim Nolte

Description Of Problem

The output for a flooding report can overflow if one has a large "valve".

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.014

DATE: May 24, 1996 Discovered By: Tim Nolte

Description Of Problem

After a tank which is dynamically flooded gets full, the flow rate will oscillate wildly.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.015

DATE: May 28, 1996 Discovered By: Tim Nolte

Description Of Problem

After REV 5.03.014, the head was fixed, but the maximum percent full could exceed 100\%.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.016

DATE: May 31, 1996 Discovered By: Tim Nolte

Description Of Problem

If one is doing a time domain with compartments flooding dynamically with internal pressure, then the pressure forces will be applied in the wrong system for a stress analysis. Also, the time step necessary to get good results is smaller than one would think.

Programs Affected: MOSES, OSCAR II

REV NO: REV 503.017

DATE: June 28, 1996 Discovered By: James Hudgins

Description Of Problem

Using Efthimou SCFs on a PC may give a floating point error for some strange joints.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.018

DATE: July 01, 1996 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

The -minimum option on &describe compartment is not honored properly. Tanks can be ballasted below the defined value.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.019

DATE: July 02, 1996 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

If the first column of a stiffness block determines the coupling of the block to previous blocks, then the coupling of the block will be incorrect. Normally this leads to an incorrect "singular stiffness matrix" message.

Programs Affected: MOSES

REV NO: REV 503.020

DATE: July 09, 1996 Discovered By: James Hudgens

Description Of Problem

Sometimes on a PC, a structural solution will abort with a co-processor fault.

Programs Affected: MOSES

REV NO: REV 503.021

DATE: July 10, 1996 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

The use of contents in a tank which is "sloshed" does not work except when the contents has a specific gravity of 1.025

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.022

DATE: July 15, 1996 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

If the first element of a string is reversed, then some others may have a sign problem when using BMOM_SH.

Programs Affected: MOSES

REV NO: REV 503.024

DATE: July 31, 1996 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

The weight reported when v_matrices is issued is incorrect unless the big force unit is kips.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.025

DATE: August 12, 1996 Discovered By: Curtis Owens

Description Of Problem

The selection of "moment and shear" for selection criteria in beam post-processing is reversed. In other words, if one selects beams with maximum moment, he gets beams bases on maximum shear.

Programs Affected: MOSES

REV NO: REV 503.026

DATE: August 26, 1996 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

In some cases one can get a NaN with a LLEG section in the structural post-processor.

Programs Affected: MOSES

REV NO: REV 503.027

DATE: August 29, 1996 Discovered By: James Hudgens

Description Of Problem

A PC may give an incorrect message "Ran Out Of Room While Resizing"

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.028

DATE: September 04, 1996 Discovered By: Curtis Owens

Description Of Problem

The weight and total force reported with ldgforce, and elmforce are not correct for a body which changes orientation.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.029

DATE: September 10, 1996 Discovered By: Peter Lai

Description Of Problem

If one does an INMODEL with an existing database, then some elements which are not supposed to have loads may wind up with them.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.030

DATE: September 10, 1996 Discovered By: Peter Lai

Description Of Problem

In the HSTATIC menu, use of the -WAVE option yields incorrect results.

Programs Affected: All

REV NO: REV 503.031

DATE: September 18, 1996

Discovered By: Chris Dunlop

Description Of Problem

The GM one gets when he uses a &COMPART -SLOSH is too small.

Programs Affected: All Code Changes REV NO: REV 503.032 DATE: September 18, 1996 Discovered By: Steve Rowden Description Of Problem The reports one gets with SP_XXX are do not include all degrees of freedom. Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 503.033 DATE: September 23, 1996 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold Description Of Problem The are still problems with -slosh. This time it is for tanks which are 100 percent full - the resulting GM is too high. Also, the cg for tanks flooded without -slosh is not correct if the density of their contents is not sea water. Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 503.034 DATE: September 24, 1996 Discovered By: Peter Lai Description Of Problem If one uses &describe body xxxx -sect in the data file, then longitudinal strength will only be computed at the locations specified. Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 503.035 DATE: September 24, 1996 Discovered By: Peter Lai Description Of Problem For presentation purposes, the free surface correction reported with &status is changed from being a correction of the cg of the tank to being a correction of the cg of the body. Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 503.036 DATE: October 02, 1996 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold Description Of Problem A pipe with an articulated stinger gives bad pipe stresses in the frequency domain due to and inadequate handling of the stiffness of the pipe. Programs Affected: MOSES, OSCAR II REV NO: REV 503.037 DATE: October 03, 1996 Discovered By: Peter Lai Description Of Problem This is simply a continuataion of a previous fix having to do with the manner in which ballast is treated. Here, a small problem with the corrected cg of tubtanks is fixied. Also, the reporting of radii of gyration (in both &status and at the top of the motions reports) has been changed from "dry" to "wet". Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 503.038 DATE: October 03, 1996 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger Description Of Problem Some upending problems do not find equilibrium when they really should. Programs Affected: MOSES, OSCAR II REV NO: REV 503.039 DATE: October 12, 1996 Discovered By: Roger Burger Description Of Problem Then one issues GOTO 0 in the static process menu, the program goes to the event before the first event. Programs Affected: MOSES, OSCAR II REV NO: REV 503.040 DATE: October 16, 1996 Discovered By: Tim Nolte Description Of Problem In some cases, the report produced by fat_cfor will be written to the log file instead of the output file. Programs Affected: MOSES, OSCAR II REV NO: REV 503.041 DATE: November 13, 1996 Discovered By: Magne Bjoerke Description Of Problem The results of TZ and TC (the zero up crossing period and the crest period) are interchanged when one does statistics of fourier coefficients in the Disposition Menu. Programs Affected: All Ultramarine, Inc. | Suite 325 | 3100 S. Gessner | Houston, Texas 77063 | (713)975-8146 Site Map Copyright(C) 1996-2008 Ultramarine,Inc.