SAP2000 v26.1.

0 Release Notes
© 2024 Computers and Structures, Inc.

Notice Date: 23-October-2024

This document lists changes made to SAP2000 since v26.0.1, released 13-September-2024. Items marked
with an asterisk (*) in the first column are more significant.

Design – Steel Frame

Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
10936 An enhancement has been made to steel frame design codes AISC 360-22, AISC 360-16, AISC
360-10, AISC360-05/IBC2006, and API 4F-2020 in which the program now allows the sway
effective length factors (K2 factors) to be less than 1. Previously, K2 factors were not allowed
to be less than one, as this is the limit for all frame structures. However, for truss chords, the
K2 can be less than 1. This change can affect the axial capacity of the members. K2 affects
axial capacity calculation, and K1 affects the B1 factor calculation. Also, the other affected
codes are AS 4100:2020, AS 4100-1998, and NZS 3404-1997, where the factor is named 'ke
Major/Minor Sway'. The previous implementation was conservative for truss elements.

Installation and Licensing

Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
* 10832 The version number has been changed to
26.1.0 for a new intermediate release.

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Data Files
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10854 An incident was resolved to correct the Chinese steel frame section library which was
missing fillet radius data for some sections. Section property values for some other sections
were modified slightly to provide more accurate values.

Database Tables
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10799 An incident was resolved where in an uncommon situation assigned frame point loads did
not show up in the database tables.
10874 An incident was resolved where the table name displayed in the first row of an Excel
worksheet was incorrect when the Excel worksheet was created from the interactive
database.

Design – Concrete Frame

Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10926 An incident has been resolved for the Eurocode 2-2004 concrete frame design for crack
width. Previously, an error message was incorrectly produced for the situation where axial
tension demand exceeded capacity when the design iteration with a low amount of
reinforcement was performed. Now, it is correctly checked after all the required design
iterations are done.

Design – Steel Frame

Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10788 An incident has been resolved in the Chinese 2018 steel frame design code 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.

External Import and Export

Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10906 An incident affecting the import of solid objects from DXF files containing AutoCAD polyface
mesh objects was resolved. Occasionally, some polyface mesh objects with their points in an
unexpected sequence were not imported. When this occurred the error was visually obvious
and the results agreed with the model. A workaround consisted of importing the polyface
mesh objects as shell objects and subsequently extruding them into solid objects. This
incident affected all versions of SAP2000 capable of importing polyface mesh objects as
solids, i.e. SAP2000 v25.3.0 and later.

Installation and Licensing

Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10965 An incident was resolved where the Norsok steel frame design could not be run when using
an Ultimate level sign-in license.

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Structural Model
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10953 An incident was resolved where the hinge length overwrite advanced parameter in frame
hinge assignments (Assign menu > Frame > Hinges) was not applied to Idealized Flexural
Hinge type auto hinges. This also affected hinge distribution types Nonlinear Beam Column,
Distributed Plasticity, or Equal Spacing where the Idealized Flexural Hinge type auto hinge
would use the hinge length specified in the auto hinge parameters instead of the specified
hinge length or tributary length. The behavior of Idealized Flexural Hinge type auto hinges
has been changed so that the hinge length or tributary length specified in the frame hinge
assignment will overwrite the hinge length.

User Interface
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
* 10856 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)
incorrect total progress on the main form, and (3) sometimes unexpected termination of the
program.
10912 An incident was resolved where in some cases the temperature value on the Assign Frame
Material Temperature form was being unexpectedly converted.

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 SAP2000 v26.0.1 Release Notes
© 2024 Computers and Structures, Inc.

Notice Date: 12-September-2024

This document lists changes made to SAP2000 since v26.0.0, released 05-September-2024. Items marked
with an asterisk (*) in the first column are more significant.

Installation and Licensing

Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
* 10849 The version number has been changed to 26.0.1 for a new minor release.

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Installation and Licensing
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
* 10848 An incident was resolved where the sign-in licensing was not working for trials on some
machines and for checked out licenses. This only affected v26.0.0.

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 SAP2000 v26.0.0 Release Notes
© 2024 Computers and Structures, Inc.

Notice Date: 04-September-2024

This document lists changes made to SAP2000 since v25.3.1, released 11-July-2024. Items marked with
an asterisk (*) in the first column are more significant.

API
Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
* 10555 Following enhancements have been made to the API: SAP2000 (SAP2000v1.dll) and cross-
product API (CSiAPIv1.dll) libraries have been updated to target .NET Standard 2.0,
increasing range of compatibility to API clients targeting .NET Standard 2.0, .NET Framework
4.6.1 to 4.8.1 and .NET (Core) 2 to .NET 8. Increased support for complex plugins where
dependencies of the plugin might conflict with dependencies of SAP2000. Better error
handling for API clients calling API functions that were not implemented by the connected
version of SAP2000. The Remote API feature, used to start and/or connect to a running
instance of SAP2000 on a Remote Computer, has been disabled with the release of SAP2000
v26.0.0. This functionality may be added back to the program in a future release. Please see
API help file for details regarding backward and forward compatibility.
10745 An enhancement has been made to allow an unallocated array argument to be passed into
cPointObject.GetSpring(), cPointObject.GetSpringCoupled(), cPointElm.GetSpring(), and
cPointElm.GetSpringCoupled() API methods to store the returned spring stiffness values.

Design – Concrete Frame

Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
7938 An enhancement has been made to ACI concrete codes "ACI 318-14" and "ACI 318-19" for
torsion design if redistribution of torsion and forces are identified. The members for which
redistribution is identified are designed for a torsion maximum of Tu and phi * Tcr per
section ACI 318-14 22.7.3 and ACI 318-19 22.7.3. The members for which redistribution is
not identified are designed for a torsion Tu obtained from analysis. If a member is
overwritten with a reduction factor for torsional stiffness or if the member is assigned a
section for which a reduction factor for torsional stiffness is applied, it is considered to
redistribute torsion.

Design – Concrete Shell

Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
* 1521 An enhancement has been made to add concrete shell design in accordance with the ACI
350-20.

Design – Steel Frame

Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
* 1648 An enhancement has been made to include concrete frame design in accordance with ACI
350-20, Code Requirements for Environmental Engineering Structures. Two new load
pattern types, Hydrostatic and Horizontal Earth Pressure, have been added to represent
fluid and soil pressure, respectively, in the load combinations generated for ACI-350 design.

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Documentation
Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
8421 An enhancement has been made to the steel frame design code AISC 360-22 in which the
expression for the Cb factor for singly symmetric I-shapes has been modified to include the
effect of singly symmetric I-shape parameter, Rm, per AISC commentary equation C-F1-3.
The manual has been updated accordingly. In addition, the manual has been updated to
include the effect of axial tension on Cb per AISC section H1.2, where Cb is amplified by a
factor sqrt(1+alpha*Pr/Pey). The program was correct regarding the latter effect.

Installation and Licensing

Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
* 10627 The version number has been changed to
v26.0.0 for a new major release.

Loading
Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
10765 A minor enhancement was made to the iterative scheme used to calculate the wave length
using Stokes 5th Order Wave Theory. This allows iteration convergence for a much larger set
of wave parameters. Results should not change where the old iterative scheme converged
and no iteration failure message was given.

Results Display and Output

Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
* 5171 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.

Structural Model
Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
* 10741 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.

User Interface
Enhancements Implemented
* Ticket Description
8466 A change has been made to keep user defined stress-strain curves for materials unchanged
if later revisions are made to the Young's Modulus and/or material strength. This allows
users to experiment with different effective Young's Modulus and material strength for
linear analysis and design without disturbing the user defined stress-strain curves used for
nonlinear analysis. Earlier versions would scale the user stress-strain curves when the
Young's Modulus or material strength were modified. Parametric stress-strain curves are
unaffected by this change.

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 * Ticket Description
* 10543 SAP2000 has been updated to support Microsoft's .NET 8. This does not affect most users
directly, except perhaps by associated changes to the Application Programming Interface
(API), either by explicit use of the API by the user or through the use of third-party
applications or Plug-ins. API programmers should see Ticket 10555 for more information.
Users experiencing problems with third-party applications or Plug-Ins should contact the
supplier for an updated application or Plug-In that will work with SAP2000 v26.0.0.

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API
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
* 10767 An incident was resolved where Python scripts accessing the API via COM (comtypes library)
failed to run due to misnamed eHingeDistributionType enumeration values. Python scripts
accessing the API via .NET (pythonnet library) were not affected.
* 10828 An incident was resolved where the cross-product API (CSiAPIv1.dll) versions 2.0 and 2.1
(released with ETABS/SAFE v22.0.0 and v22.1.0, respectively) caused an exception when
used to interact with any version of SAP2000/CSiBridge (including v26.0.0 and future
versions) by accessing the following properties of the cLoadCases interface from an external
API client/script: cLoadCases.HyperStatic As cCaseHyperStatic cLoadCases.ModalEigen As
cCaseModalEigen cLoadCases.ModalRitz As cCaseModalRitz cLoadCases.ModHistLinear As
cCaseModalHistoryLinear cLoadCases.ModHistNonlinear As cCaseModalHistoryNonlinear
cLoadCases.ResponseSpectrum As cCaseResponseSpectrum cLoadCases.StaticLinear As
cCaseStaticLinear cLoadCases.StaticNonlinear As cCaseStaticNonlinear
cLoadCases.StaticNonlinearStaged As cCaseStaticNonlinearStaged
cLoadCases.ExternalResults As cCaseExternalResults cLoadCases.Moving As
cCaseMovingLoad cLoadCases.PSD As cCasePowerSpectralDensity
cLoadCases.StaticLinearMultistep As cCaseStaticLinearMultistep
cLoadCases.StaticNonlinearMultistep As cCaseStaticNonlinearMultistep
cLoadCases.SteadyState As cCaseSteadyState The API version 2.2 (released with
SAP2000/CSiBridge v26.0.0) is fully backwards compatible with previous versions of
SAP2000/CSiBridge, but the cross-product API (CSiAPIv1.dll) should not be used to interact
with ETABS/SAFE v22.0.0 and v22.1.0 by accessing the aforementioned properties of the
cLoadCases interface from an external API client/script to prevent run time errors.

Database Tables
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
8342 An incident was resolved where the Plot Function Trace table may not have been available if
only steady state and/or power spectral density plot functions existed. Additionally, an issue
was also fixed where the database table did not have the StepType and StepNum fields
populated if the named set plot function trace was for a steady state or power spectral
density load case.
10672 An incident was resolved in the Auto Seismic - NBCC 2015 database table, where the
StructType value was always populated with Steel MF even when the value selected in the
load pattern definition was something else. This was an issue in filling the database table
and did not affect the calculated loads applied to the structure.

Design – Steel Frame

Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10665 An incident has been resolved in Canadian steel frame design codes “CSA S16-09”, “CSA S16-
14”, and “CSA S16-19” in which the program made an error in calculating the effective area,
Aeff, when the section is a Class 4 section in the axial compression mode for the web being
slender (h/tw > 670/sqrt(Fy)). The reduction in area for the web is b_reduction * t, where t
should be taken as tw, while SAP2000 used t=tf. Since tf is typically greater than or equal to
tw, this correction will increase the value of Aeff slightly, and the program was conservative.
This change affects the axial force capacity of slender I-shapes when the web is slender. All
other sections remain unaffected.

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* 10670 An incident has been resolved in steel frame design code AISC 360-22 in which the D/C ratios
displayed in the main window did not match with the D/C ratios in the Steel Stress Check
Information (AISC 360-22) and the Steel Stress Check Data AISC 360-22 windows. This
problem only occurred when the design was performed with parallel processing (multi-
threaded) and when the model units (database units) differed from the design code units.
The D/C ratios in the Steel Stress Check Information (AISC 360-22) and the Steel Stress Check
Data AISC 360-22 windows were correct.
10690 An incident has been resolved in steel frame design code “AISC 360-22” in which the
program shows error messages while displaying the design details in the “Steel Stress Check
Data” form after clicking the Details button in the “Steel Stress Check Information (…)” form.
10787 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.

Drafting and Editing

Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10581 An incident was resolved to fix the correct location while drafting when inputs for length and
angle were specified.

Graphics
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10453 An incident was resolved to correct the location of point labels in 2D views when the
selected coordinate system was not Global.

Results Display and Output

Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
9542 An incident was resolved where the color of arrows in results displays were not correct
when a user defined min/max contour range was applied. This was a display issue only.
10625 An incident was resolved where the fiber status results reported for individual fibers in a
Fiber P-M2-M3 hinge in the Fiber Results form (Display menu>Hinge Results>"Show
Individual Fiber Data" button) and the "Frame Fiber Hinge States 02 - Individual Fibers"
database tables were incorrect. This issue only affected SAP2000/CSiBridge v25.1.0-25.3.0.
This issue is a reporting issue for individual fibers and did not affect the overall results of the
Fiber Hinge or other analysis results.
10717 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 subsequent load case/stage which
continued from it. This is a reporting issue.

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Section Designer
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10697 An incident has been resolved for displaying idealized Caltrans moment-curvature curves
where the program could display an error message and not be able to plot the curve when
the units Tonf-m were selected such that the magnitude of the moment value was too big to
be handled. This error was a display issue due to unit conversion and did not affect the
results.

Structural Model
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10355 An incident has been resolved for the super-T frame section property calculations in which
the section properties would be calculated incorrectly when the super-T frame section was
defined with a closed flange. In this case, the section properties were larger than expected
and the analysis results were calculated based on the section properties calculated and
displayed within the program

User Interface
Incidents Resolved
* Ticket Description
10647 An incident was resolved in the NBCC 2020 auto seismic load pattern definition form where
some of the parameters were not correctly recovered when opening the form for an existing
definition. This was a user interface issue only and the loading and analysis results were
consistent with the last values on the form when the OK button was pressed. The values
displayed in the database tables were correct and consistent with the loading and analysis
results.
10696 An incident was resolved in the Section Cut Data form, where the advanced axes option
would be selected upon clicking OK on the form when the selected coordinate system was
Global. This issue was introduced in v25.2.0. Results would correspond with the defined
section cut definition shown in the database tables.

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