Rev. 5.05 Bug Fixes

Rev. 5.05 Bug Fixes

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REV NO: REV 505.001

DATE: February 16, 1997

Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

On some machines, a structural analysis using a pulley will fail with an access violation.

Programs Affected: MOSES REV NO: REV 505.002 DATE: February 16, 1997 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger Description Of Problem

Statistics of sea pressures sometimes do not work on a PC.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.003 DATE: February 19, 1997 Discovered By: Roger Burger Description Of Problem

The the string function &part(radii) may return incorrect results if the body has been moved.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.004 DATE: February 21, 1997 Discovered By: Curtis Owens Description Of Problem

The string function &number will sometimes return garbage on a PC. This due to a compiler bug.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.005 DATE: February 21, 1997 Discovered By: E. Magne Description Of Problem

The rotations reported with a detail rod report at an event are incorrect. This is simply a reporting problem.

Programs Affected: MOSES, OSCAR II REV NO: REV 505.006 DATE: February 26, 1997 Discovered By: C. Owens Description Of Problem

On a PC, the string function &ELEMENT(ENDS ..) will abort with character string too short.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.008 DATE: February 28, 1997 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold Description Of Problem

When one issues &status pipe, the tension reported is always 0 if the pipe is a drill riser.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.009 DATE: February 28, 1997 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold Description Of Problem

It is not possible to use &connector &pipe -top_mom yes to fix the top angle of a pipe assembly.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.010 DATE: March 03, 1997 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger Description Of Problem

This problem was induced by fix 505.008. It gives an error when trying to change the properties of a rod which is not part of a pipe assembly.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.011 DATE: March 03, 1997 Discovered By: Jay Hooper Description Of Problem

Sometimes a PC will abort with a co-processor fault when it is setting up an environment.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.012 DATE: March 04, 1997 Discovered By: Paul Dixon Description Of Problem

When using the WIN32 version of our software on a PC, you can sometimes get an access violation when doing diffraction. When this occurs depends on the number of panels and the setting of -MAXA. The real cause of this is a compiler bug with writing partial direct access io records. Below is a code around for the problem.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.013 DATE: March 11, 1997 Discovered By: Farman Seyed Description Of Problem

If one has more than one body, it is possible to get draft, gm, and radii of gyration for the wrong body in the heading box when doing statistics in the FREQ_RESPONSE Menu. This is purely cosmetic.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.014 DATE: March 12, 1997 Discovered By: Ed Mascoro Description Of Problem

On a PC one gets an access violation when attempting to do frequency domain post-processing. This problem was induced by the previous bug fix.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.015 DATE: March 12, 1997 Discovered By: Georgina Maldonado Description Of Problem

The string function &point(name -g) may return values in the wrong system if one has performed a &describe part -move and not changed parts during an inmodel.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.016 DATE: March 13, 1997 Discovered By: Curtis Owens Description Of Problem

If one issues &describe body ground, and immediately follows &instat -loc *xxxx, then the initial velocity of the body containing the point *xxxx may become corrupted.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.017 DATE: March 17, 1997 Discovered By: Chin Description Of Problem

If one has more than one piece per part, then the tanaka/kato damping will be too large.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.018 DATE: March 20, 1997 Discovered By: Ray Nachlinger Description Of Problem

If one performs several rao or sresponse commands the connector force raos and statistics for lines that are active for one command and then inactive for the other will be incorrectly reported.

Programs Affected: OSCAR II, MOSES REV NO: REV 505.019 DATE: March 25, 1997 Discovered By: Peter Lai Description Of Problem

The weight printed as the weight to normalize the results of the MATRICES command in the FREQ_RESP menu is printed as the weight in kips, regardless of the units being used.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.020 DATE: March 25, 1997 Discovered By: Martin Brown/Laura Jones Description Of Problem

If one issues an internal command (&instate, &compart, etc.) within the HSTATICS menu, then a -wave option will not work correctly.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.021 DATE: March 25, 1997 Discovered By: Eric Magne Description Of Problem

If you have a time domain simulation with rod elements, and you "restart" the program, and try to do process-post- processing on the rod, a PC will give a message zero devide.

Programs Affected: OSCAR II, MOSES REV NO: REV 505.022 DATE: March 26, 1997 Discovered By: Peter Lai Description Of Problem

When one has "a lot of" tanks sloshed, the force due to contents (from &status force) gives a different answer than the sum of the ballast in the tanks from &stat compartment or &stat b_w. This was due to a closure tolerance for iterating the location of the water surface in the tank which was too large.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.023 DATE: March 27, 1997 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger Description Of Problem

Fix 505.022, induce a problem so that if one issues the command &compartment -perc a 100 xx, the density of the contents will not be correct.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.024 DATE: March 30, 1997 Discovered By: Alexander Beldi Description Of Problem

The user accounting does not work properly.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.025 DATE: March 31, 1997 Discovered By: Curtis Owens Description Of Problem

The command &connector :s -length xx does not work correctly for pulleys.

Programs Affected: OSCAR II, MOSES REV NO: REV 505.026 DATE: April 01, 1997 Discovered By: Alexandre Beldi Description Of Problem

The report produced with v_tanaka has incorrect units.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.027 DATE: April 07, 1997 Discovered By: Alexandre Beldi Description Of Problem

If one imports a total database from the command chanel, the results may not be correct.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.028 DATE: April 07, 1997 Discovered By: Alexandre Beldi Description Of Problem

The moments in the report "PANEL EXCITING FORCES" from the v_exforce are scaled incorrectly.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.029 DATE: May 03, 1997 Discovered By: Vincent Guerande Description Of Problem

The status motion report does not have enough precision if one is working in SI units.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.030 DATE: May 08, 1997 Discovered By: Curtis Owens Description Of Problem

If one uses a gap with a distance, then a stress analysis may not be correct.

Programs Affected: MOSES REV NO: REV 505.031 DATE: May 12, 1997 Discovered By: Tim Nolte Description Of Problem

-prob duration, does not work for the motions resulting from SRESPONSE.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.032 DATE: May 12, 1997 Discovered By: Tim Nolte Description Of Problem

The -FIX_TENSION option on SRESPONSE was seriously broken with REV 5.05.

Programs Affected: All REV NO: REV 505.033 DATE: May 13, 1997 Discovered By: E. Magne Description Of Problem

The frequency response pressure commands do not give correct results if one has more than 1 heading.