Software Verification

PROGRAM NAME: SAP2000

REVISION NO.: 14

SAP2000 Software Verification Log

Revision
Number Date Description
0 Jan. 8, 2003 Initial release for SAP2000 version 8.1.2
Initial release for SAP2000 version 8.30. Examples 1-016, 1-
1 Jan. 30, 2004
017, 1-019, 6-004, 6-005, and 6-011 were modified.
Intial release for SAP2000 version 9.00. Example 1-009 was
2 Aug. 26, 2004 modified. Examples 1-030, 2-020, 3-001 through 3-005, 4-001
through 4-004 and 5-001 through 5-013 were added.
Intial release for SAP2000 version 9.09. Results for Example
1-009, Example 1-030, Example 2-020, and Example 5-009
3 Feb. 23, 2005
were slightly modified. The process for automating the
verification check was also revised.
Intial release for SAP2000 version 9.11. Results for Example
4 Mar. 30, 2005
2-018 and Example 2-019 were slightly modified.
Initial release for Sap2000 version 10.00. Results for
5 Oct. 7, 2005 Examples 2-019 were slightly modified. The process for
automating the verification check was also revised.
Initial release for Sap2000 version 11.00. Results for Example
1-009, 2-019, 2-020, 5-009, 6-005, and 6-011 were slightly
6 Jan. 19, 2007 modified. Removed reference temperature from Example 1-
002, 2-013 and 5-011. Examples 7-001 through 7-003 were
added to verify cable elements.
Initial release for SAP2000 version 12.00. Results for
Example 1-009, 2-020, 5-009, and 6-011 were slightly
7 June 30, 2008 modified. Model 7-003 and its results were slightly modified.
Typographical error was fixed in Example 6-012. Load
patterns and load case terminology updated.
Initial release for SAP2000 version 14.00. Results for Example
2-005, 2-006, 2-015, 5-009, 6-010, and 6-011 were slightly
modified. Model 6-002 and its results were modified. Added
discussion of sensitivity to Example 6-011.
8 Apr. 24, 2009
Changes in Examples 2-005, 2-006, and 2-015 are due to a
change in the homogeneous shell element formulation
(Incident 17270).

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Changes in Example 5-009 are due to a change in the method
of transferring tendon loads to elements (Incident 17300).

Changes in Example 6-002 are due to a change that allows

negative stiffness in link elements (Incident 17151).

Changes in Example 6-010 are due to a change in the stiffness

proportional damping formulation (Incident 17152).

Changes in Example 6-011 are due to the numerical sensitivity

of the problem. See Example 6-011 Conclusions section for
more information.
Initial release for CSiBridge version 15.00. Important note
indicating that verification also applies to CSiBridge was
added. Results for Example 6-005, 6-010 and 6-011 were
slightly modified.

The results presented in this document are now obtained using

the Advanced equation solver running as a separate 32bit
process on an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU with the Windows 7
Professional 64-bit operating system.

Changes in Example 6-005 are due to the change in an internal

9 Oct. 1 2010
tolerance for nonlinear direct history analyses. (Incident
22645).

Changes in Example 6-002 are due to a change in how

reactions are calculated in nonlinear static and nonlinear direct
history analyses (Incident 10962).

Changes in Example 6-011 are due to the numerical sensitivity

of the problem. See Example 6-011 Conclusions section for
more information.

Initial release for Sap2000 version 15.00 and CSiBridge

10 June 9, 2011 version 15.10.

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A note was added to Example 1-030 indicating that it applies
to CSiBridge only. The example uses features that are not
available in Sap2000V15.

The automation documentation has been updated to reflect

changes in the Excel sheet.
Initial release for CSiBridge 2014 v16.0.0.

The Excel spreadsheet has been updated to run using 64-bit

versions of Microsoft Excel.

The important note has been updated to indicate that the

design examples do not apply to CSiBridge.
11 Aug. 5, 2013
The automation documentation has been updated to describe
how to run design verification examples for SAP2000.

Results for Example 6-011 were slightly modified. Changes in

Example 6-011 are due to the numerical sensitivity of the
problem. See Example 6-011 Conclusions section for more
information.
Initial release for SAP2000 v16.0.0.
12 Sept. 6, 2013
The steel frame and concrete frame design verification suites
are included with the release of SAP2000 v16.0.0.
Initial release for SAP2000 v17.0.0 and CSiBridge 2015
v17.0.0.

Results for Example 2-019 were slightly modified. This is due

to Incident 64466 for CSiBridge and SAP2000 as described in
the Release Notes: The iteration algorithm for nonlinear direct-
13 July 22, 2014
integration time-history analysis has been enhanced to
improve the rate of convergence and to reduce the time of
analysis for certain models. Models run in the new version
should produce the same results as in the previous version,
subject to minor variations approximately within the
convergence tolerance. Larger differences may be observed for

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ill-conditioned or sensitive models, but in such cases the new
results should generally be better.

Results for Example 6-005 were slightly modified. This is due

to Incidents 47495 (CSiBridge) and 47496 (SAP2000), as
described in the Release Notes: The speed of nonlinear direct-
integration time-history analysis has been significantly
increased for models containing nonlinear dampers having
fractional exponents on the velocity term. This is due to
improved rate of convergence for nonlinear iteration. There
has been no change to the actual force-velocity or force-
displacement behavior of the damper link element. The
response for models run in previous versions may differ very
slightly from that of the current version due to the resulting
change in the process of iteration. Such changes can be
expected to be on the order of the convergence tolerance for
the load case.

Published results for Example 6-011 have not been modified

for this release as they have for some previous releases.
However, results for Example 6-011 may differ from the
published values due to the numerical sensitivity of the
problem. See Example 6-011 Conclusions section for more
information.
Initial release for SAP2000 v18.0.0 and CSiBridge 2016
v18.0.0.

Removed design verification examples for older codes which

14 October 16, 2015 have been removed from this version of the software under
Incident 81910.

Added examples for steel and concrete frame design according

to KBC 2009 under Incidents 82660 and 82661, respectively.

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