ETABS v22.2.

0 Release Notes
© 2024 Computers and Structures, Inc.

Notice Date: 30-September-2024

This document lists changes made to ETABS since v22.1.0, released 13-July-2024. Items marked with an
asterisk (*) in the first column are more significant.

Analysis
Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
10194 The Diaphragm Forces (Display menu>Force/Stress Diagrams>Diaphragm Forces) option
“Show Applied Loads” now shows applied joint forces for nonlinear load cases also.
* 10264 An enhancement has been implemented that allows users to perform frequency-domain
analysis based upon the dynamical response of the structure to harmonically varying load.
Two type of frequency-domain load cases can be defined under Define > Load Cases menu:
deterministic Steady-State analysis and probabilistic Power-Spectral-Density analyses. The
output for these analyses is currently only available in database table format. The display of
deformed shape and force/stress diagrams in the GUI is not available and will be
implemented in a future update to the program.

Design – Composite Beam

Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
* 10676 An enhancement to composite beam design was made with design per the Chinese GB50017
code added.
10759 An enhancement to the Interactive Composite Beam Design form was implemented. When
the user interactively designs a beam which has an auto select section with the form Show
All Alternates option selected and chooses a failing design as the final selection, ETABS
displays a form asking for confirmation.
* 10776 An enhancement to composite beam design was made with design per the Indian IS
11384:2022 code added.
10778 Two related incidents affecting composite beam design were resolved. 1) The composite
properties of beams with a user-defined section and a non-zero fillet radius were computed
on the basis of a zero fillet radius. When this occurred, the error was minimal and erred on
the conservative side. 2) The shear capacities of built-up I sections or user-defined sections
with a zero fillet radius were computed on the basis of a fillet radius equal to 10% of the
thickness of the thickest flange, which led to an underestimation of the web slenderness.
When this occurred, the error was minimal and seldom affected designs as shear capacity
seldom controls the design of composite beams. Both incidents affected all versions of
ETABS capable of designing composite beams.

Design – Steel Frame

Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
10790 An incident has been resolved in steel frame design code “Chinese 2018” in which the
allowable fy values for grade Q460 have been modified as follows: (a) thickness <= 16 mm,
fy = 460 MPa (no change), (b) 16 mm < thickness <= 40 mm, fy = 450 MPa (previously 440
MPa, (c) 40 mm < thickness <= 63 mm, fy = 430 MPa (previously 420 MPa), and (d) 63 mm <
thickness <= 100 mm, fy = 410 MPa (previously 400 MPa). All other allowable values for fy
remain unchanged.

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 * Ticket Description
10796 An incident has been resolved in the steel frame design code “Chinese 2018” regarding the
Beta_tx parameter. Previously, this parameter was not correctly set to 0.85 for beams
subjected to lateral loads along the span, which also experienced end moments and
underwent double curvature bending, where end moments had the same sign but had
opposing signs in the middle of the span. Instead of the value of 0.85, it was set as 1.0. All
other cases remain the same as before.

Graphics
Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
10674 An enhancement was made for setting edge color for extruded frames view. The option to
select edge color for shell edges and positive and negative faces was also added.

Installation and Licensing

Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
* 10729 The version number has been changed to
22.2.0 for a new intermediate release.

Results Display and Output

Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
* 10594 An enhancement was made to display frame force/moment diagrams with colored contours.
Mouse hover works to trace the moment value at a specific frame location.

Section Designer
Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
10649 An enhancement has been made to add circular reinforcement for rectangular concrete
shapes and rectangular reinforcement for circular concrete shapes in section designer.
Previously, only rectangular reinforcement could be defined for rectangular concrete shapes
and only circular reinforcement could be defined for circular concrete shapes.

Structural Model
Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
* 10538 A new link property "Sumitomo Viscoelastic Damper" has been implemented to represent
the behavior of high-damping rubber vibration control damper devices produced by
Sumitomo Rubber Industries. The nonlinear damper behavior is a combination of elastic,
plastic, and viscous damping behavior and can be enabled for any of the translational
degrees of freedom independently. Information about the damper and its parameters is
available in the "Sumitomo Viscoelastic Damper Link Property" technical note provided with
the program.
10862 Definition of point spring property has been enhanced in the program. Previously, the
nonlinear behavior of the point spring could only be defined through link properties. The
enhancement now allows users to specify the nonlinearity in two ways - Quick Specifications
or From Link Properties. Under Quick Specifications, user can choose nonlinear options as
None, Tension Only, Compression Only, or Elasto-plastic. This option only applies to
translation Z direction. The second option (i.e. From Link Properties) works as before. If the
source of nonlinearity is from Link Properties then for a given direction, link effective
stiffness and simple spring stiffness specified for the point spring are additive.

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User Interface
Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
10635 An enhancement was made to display the design overwrites for steel and concrete frames
using the right click information form.
10713 Enhancement added to display frame local axes color in section definition form and local
axes numbers in model assignment display.
10734 An enhancement was made to select/unselect link objects for similar and all stories.
10857 An enhancement was added to display rebar detailing information for concrete columns and
beams in object right click form when detailing results are available.
10858 An enhancement was made to display rebar detailing editor for strip rebar at the right click
on the design strip > Detailing tab when slab detailing results are available.

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Analysis
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10811 An incident was resolved where nonlinear static load cases that have mode(s) applied as
load(s) and were run quasi-statically (as time-history) didn’t automatically schedule and run
the prerequisite modal load case and failed to start when running load cases in parallel.
10853 An incident was resolved where a Parametric P-M2-M3 hinge may produce invalid results
(NaN) when the hinge transitioned through the yield and ultimate points on the backbone
curve with an extremely small step size. The analysis would not be able to continue after the
issue occurred, and further results were unavailable. All results prior to the issue occurring
are valid and unaffected.

Database Tables
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10722 An incident has been resolved where the selection of objects via the database table was not
working for the load assignment tables for frame objects and the assignment tables for link
objects. For frame load assignment tables, joint object would get selected instead of frame
objects when any of the selection options was used. For link assignment tables, no link
objects were selected when any of the available selection options was used.
10735 An incident was resolved where the program would terminate abnormally when an attempt
was made to interactively edit the table for frame section concrete column reinforcing when
program was being run in Chinese language. This issue was not there when the program was
run in English language.
10738 An incident has been resolved where the button on the database tables form to set output
selections was always disabled. This prevented the user from selecting the output selections
by clicking on the button. As a workaround, the user had the option to set the output
selections via Edit command that was working without any issues.
10780 An incident was resolved where the "Diaphragm Forces" database table did not show joints
at the edge of floor elements where shell edge releases were applied. This was a reporting
issue with the database table and did not affect the diaphragm forces shown on the display.
10878 An incident was resolved where, when a Tendon Object is added using Interactive Database
editing (Edit menu>Interactive Database) through the "Tendon Object Connectivity"
database table, an error would occur when trying to apply the changes. This issue affected
Interactive Database Editing in the graphical user interface as well as through
cDatabaseTables in the API and the import of ETABS text files (File menu>Import).

Design – Concrete Frame

Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10824 An incident has been resolved for the Eurocode 2-2004 concrete frame design for
serviceability in which some of design parameters are not available for beam sections. These
includes Serviceability: Conc. Comp. Stress Limit k1, Serviceability: Steel Tensile Stress Limit
k3, Serviceability: Exposure Class, Serviceability: Crack Width Limit, and Serviceability:
Concrete Age at Cracking.

Design – Shear Wall

Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10736 An incident was resolved for ACI 318-19 shear wall design where capacity design based on
SD section was unable to compute section capacity of the wall at critical section. This issue
only affected v22.0.0 and v22.1.0.

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Design – Steel Frame
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10800 An incident was resolved for AISC 360-22, AISC 360-16 and AISC 360-10 where capacity
design of Reduce Beam Section (RBS) was not performed. This only affected v22.0.0 and
v22.1.0.

Drafting and Editing

Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10692 An incident was resolved where the undo/redo commands were not available after a column
rotation command was given.

External Import and Export

Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10847 An incident was resolved to fix the import of Perform3D models into ETABS if an older
version of Perform3D (v5 or v7) was not installed on the machine.

Results Display and Output

Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10714 An incident was resolved where for high-rise buildings, ETABS was not able to create the
report for wind and seismic calculation tables.
10720 An incident was resolved where, user-defined interacting hinges (P-M2, P-M3, M2-M3, or P-
M2-M3) with a user-specified scale factor for rotation may display an incorrect backbone
curve in the Hinge Response window (Display menu>Hinge Results). This was a display issue
that only affected the backbone curve display. Analysis results were not affected.
10733 An incident was resolved where program was not able to display deformed joint information
in Plan and Elevation views. Right click to show joint displacement information was also
fixed in Plan and Elevation view.
* 10744 An incident was resolved where joint reactions, element joint forces, and spring forces
response could get corrupted and/or lead to errors during response recovery for a modal
time history load case with a large number of applied load patterns (unique) on a medium to
large model.
10786 An incident was resolved where, for nonlinear static, staged construction, and nonlinear
direct-integration time-history load cases, joint loads applied to restrained degrees-of-
freedom applied in previous load cases/stages were not being reported in the base reactions
and joint reactions output. Joint loads applied in a load case/stage would be reported
correctly in that load case/stage but left out in any subsequently load case/stage which
continued from it. This is a reporting issue.
10846 An incident was resolved where in some instances displaying beam design diagrams would
cause an error condition.
10864 An incident was resolved in the floor vibration design (AISC Design Guide 11). The incident
affected the design output of high frequency floors (>9 Hz). Similarly, another incident
affecting the design output of low frequency floors when a damping value of 3% was
specified.

Structural Model
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10721 An incident was resolved for the Indian IS 875-1987 live load reduction factor (LLRF) where
the LLRF for stories over 10 was taken as 0.6 instead of 0.5. The results were conservative.

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10743 An incident was resolved where an "Error in assigning area hinges" message occurred when
assigning Auto Fiber P-M3 Vertical Shear Wall type wall hinges to wall objects, preventing
the wall hinge from being able to be assigned. This issue only affected Vertical Shear Wall
type hinges and only occurred in ETABS v22.0.0 and v22.1.0.
10754 An incident was resolved where assigning a Parametric P-M2-M3 type ASCE41-23 auto-hinge
to a frame object (Assign menu>Frame>Hinges) would result in an incomplete hinge
assignment that would error when the model was run. This issue only occurred in ETABS
v22.0.0 and v22.1.0 and affected ASCE41-23 auto hinges of the Parametric P-M2-M3 type,
which is only available for concrete and steel column hinges.

User Interface
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10727 An incident was resolved where reinforcement assignment for certain wall hinges was
causing an error condition.
10739 An incident was resolved where the selected/unselected items in the tree view in the
replicate options form and the paste assign forms for joints/frames/shells/links were not
getting saved.
10758 An incident was resolved where the frame auto-hinge assignment form "Auto Hinge
Assignment Data" for ASCE 41-23 Concrete Column hinges may have the group box "Shear
Demand at Flexural Yielding/Shear Capacity" disabled if the hinge assignment was previously
an ASCE41-17 Concrete Column hinge with the Concrete Column Behavior set to "Controlled
by Inadequate Development or Spacing". This issue only prevented the group box "Shear
Demand at Flexural Yielding/Shear Capacity" from being edited and would be resolved by
closing and re-opening the form. This issue did not affect analysis results and the model was
consistent with the information displayed on the form.
10789 An incident has been resolved where the program would terminate abnormally when an
attempt was made to view or edit the inelastic data for an imported Core BRB frame section.
The issue was introduced in v22.0.0 of ETABS.
10809 An incident was resolved where Time History Function button was not available when all
time history functions were deleted.
10850 An incident was resolved where changing a member section property from steel to concrete
(or vice versa) using the right click of mouse on any frame was causing an abnormal
termination.
* 10866 An incident was resolved where running many load cases that iterated very quickly in
parallel for a long time caused (1) frequent flickering on the analysis monitor form, (2)
missing messages on individual analysis monitor tabs, (3) incorrect total progress on the
main form, and (4) sometimes unexpected termination of the program.

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