3DEC 5.2 Update

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3DEC 5.20 64-bit: 3dec520_293.msi

3DEC 5.2 Revision History

• Web license activated

• Fixed energy calculation for local damping

• Added warnings for setting analytical thermal properties more than once.
• Added some more information to error messages

• Fixed small bug in crack flow logic
• Added z_discharge FISH function

• Fixed bug in gas flow calculations.

• No code changes. Fixed problem with 287 install.

• Added extra variable access for DFN fracture intersections

• Added cnode_near FISH function.
• Added plotting of node spare variables for liners.

• Now checks for removed blocks in the z_inside function

• Added tolerance to z_inside function
• Fixed bug in cable node placement when node lies outside of block
• Fixed bug in application of normal velocity boundary condition with local damping

• Now using latest security key drivers
• Added FISH function z_inside

• Fixed bug in user defined scalar plot item

• Fixed big in BOUND FREE command hat was slowing down calculations
• Fixed bug in joint plot item that was causing crashes

• Fixed bug in joint energy calculations

• DENSIFY TET now retains joint ID number

• Added cable_strain FISH function

• Fixed web license

• Added fish functions to access aperture joint material properties (see Additions.pdf)
• Fixed bug in NMD when hexahedral zones are present
• Added warning for negative volume blocks

• Added extra error messages for bad orthogonal vectors
• Enable free-fields with fluid planes

• Fixed bug in applying proppant mass concentration boundary condition
• Fixed bug in FISH function that displays thermal time when using analytical solution

• added merge_face command to merge coplanar faces on blocks

• Fixed bug in scale box plot commands
• Proppant mass concentration for plotting and FISH now mass/length^2

• Fixed bug in continuously yielding joint models with config fluid
• Proppant stiffness now has a maximum equal to the joint stiffness
• Fluid flow now permitted through bridged proppant areas

• Added ability to put beams and liners on block surfaces next to excavated blocks
• Increased maximum number of faces per block
• Fixed bug in proppant force calculation when multiple cycle commands are given

• Fixed bugs in HIS NF_SUM and HIS SF_SUM
• Higher order tets now working for zone models.

• Fix problem introduced in update 262 that made zone model dlls incompatible
• Fix problem with face_zone FISH function

• SET MERGE now working for POLY PRISM command
• DENSIFY HEX now working when non-hex blocks are present
• Prevent program crash on restore when bad FISH pointers are present

• Added missing dlls from 265 update
• Fixed bug in thermal logic when block temperatures are initialized to a constant temperature
• Added HEX keyword to densify command. SIGNIFICANT speed up to densifying hexahedral blocks.
• See Additions document

• Added adaptive cell space capability.
• Now possible to suppress contact formation between blocks with the same group.
• Added automatic fluid bulk modulus calculation
• Added ability for user to specify fluid timestep.
• See Additions document for details of all updates.

• Significant speed up of block importing
• Fixed bug in joint colors when plotted with colorby id.

• Fixed bug in densify command with gradlimit keyword
• Fixed bug in plotting applied velocities

• Fixed bug in command plot bcontour bextra
• Fixed bug in mass scaling for beam contact stiffness

• Fixed bug when cycling after SOLVE AGE.

• Mouseover for blocks now displays region and material
• b_findindex FISH function added (returns index for input id)

• Color by joint set added to contact plot item
• Fixed bug in RANGE SURFACE
• Fixed bug in saving and restoring joint colors
• Fixed bug in deterministic contact detection

• Removed print statement added for rigid blocks in version 252
• Added "Elastic (yield in past)" to cable state plot.

• Added contact plot item
• Added ability to specify relationship between hydraulic and mechanical aperture (FLUID aper_f)
• Added gap tolerance used in creation of subcontacts (SET gtol)
• Fixed output of plot item name for cable bar chart plot item.

• History can now be applied to pore pressure boundary condition
• Fixed bug in fluid timestep calculation when matrix flow is off

• Use of IDs for flow knot plot ranges now enabled
• Wireframe checkbox for flowplane contours now working.

• Flow zone permeability calculation now consistent when proppant is on or off
• Email FISH functions now working

• Added zdel command

• Added ability to specify and plot proppant mass concentration

• Fixed bug in plot of bgroup with cutplanes
• Fixed bugs in exporting of plot commands for groups with slots

• Fixed bug in using the BOUND command with rigid blocks and group ranges.
• Fixed bug in assigning jcons 7 to part of a contact.

• added error message if set energy is used without config energy.
• fixed an error in the timestep calculation when damp contact is being used.
• significant speedup of 'delete' command
• significant speedup of 'excavate' command
• bug fix in 'gen fix' command

• Fixed bug in plotting of fluid viscosity
• Added 'fluid bulk auto' command for fast flow (experimental)
• Fixed bug in beam axial strain calculation (only affects plotting and ultimate rupture strain)

• Changed angle tolerance for flow plane creation to be the same as cutting
• fpx_aperture fish function now limited by maximum aperture
• Fluid velocity calculation (for plotting) now limited by maximum aperture
• Aperture plot item now limited by maximum aperture
• Mechanical aperture plot item added
• Fixed bug in zone group plotting
• Fixed bug in beam strain rupture criterion

• Fixed bug in flow planes introduced in update 245
• Fixed but in viewing of group names with mouse over.
• Fixed bug in histories ar_sum, sf_num, sf_sum

• Fixed bug in flow plane generation.
• Fixed bug in thermal apply logic with histories when mechanical is off.
• Added SET CREEP command.

• Fixed bug in CABLE APPLY command with INDEX keyword

• Added sreg checkbox for block plots
• Removed join_contact off command
• Added ids to liner node queries

• Fixed console executable

• Updated constitutive models
• Fixed bug in free field plotting

• Added the apex correction for tensile failure to the Modified Hoek Brown model
• Fixed bug in GEN FIX command
• Added warning for import of non-planar faces
• Added face_isplanar FISH function

• New splash screen
• Fixed bug in vertex group ranges

• RELEASE

• Fixed bug in plotting of applied force vector
• All 5.2 manuals now included

• Fixed bug in SOLVE FORCE
• Updated help and 520 manuals
• Fix bug in orthotropic constitutive model

• Added group output for mouse-over of blocks
• Fixed bug in apply temperature history table
• Updated tutorials for 5.2
• Updated 5.2 manuals

• Fixed bug in zone plotting
• Fixed bug introduced in 232 related to creep timestepping
• Fixed 'bug' in apply command that fixed non-specified dofs

• Fixed bug in creep timestepping
• Temporarily turned off multi-threading for matrix flow
• Modified LINER.FIN fish file

• Correction to fracture id assignment
• Correction to assigning of joint material properties with DFNs

• Fixed bug in fluid flow related to flow in uncracked zones
• Fixed bug in solve command when there is excavated material
• Fixed bug in fill command when jmat or jcons is specified

• Security fix

• PRE-RELEASE
• Added most manuals for 5.2
• Fixed problem with security
• Add jmohr joint constitutive model as standard
• Added faceplate plot item for cables

• updated icons
• fixed bug in histories with fluid-mechanical coupling
• fixed problem with fast flow and proppant

• BETA RELEASE
• added fish and command reference

• fixed bug in calculation of timestep with proppant
• fixed bug in 'solve fos cycle' command

• dowel plot item now a plug-in
• fixed bugs in cable query and cable property printing

• more fixes to security
• improvements to cable bar chart plot item
• added flowvol_unbav and flowvol_unbmax FISH functions (for fast flow)
• fixes to creep and addition of asymmetric latency

• correction to flow plane generation
• update security logic.
• creep and mechanical timesteps now in sync by default
• fixed bug in cable bar chart plot

• changed 'list zone poly' command to dump to file
• modified fragment command to consider unbonded contacts
• further development of cable bar chart plot item

• correction to logic to delete negative volume zones
• added checks to erflag
• further development of cable bar chart plot item
• added dip and dip direction to contact query

• correction to contact forces for large normal rotations

• correction to logic to delete negative volume zones
• correction to contact logic for case of EE contacts
• correct contact normal; improve EE sub-contact detection