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ASDIP Retain Changelog

What's new in ASDIP Retain 4.3.5

Mar 4, 2019
  • Modifies the Reinforcement > Footing tab to show toe bars at bottom and heel bars at top. The previous version showed the option of T&B. This was confusing since the bars can actually be extended producing exactly the same effect as T&B.
  • The heel rebars can now be hooked into the stem, or be extended straight on the toe. For a single layer of rebars, hook both toe and heel.
  • The Graph > Construction tab now reflects the changes described above

New in ASDIP Retain 4.3.3 (Jan 15, 2019)

  • Fixes a problem with the automatic web updater.

New in ASDIP Retain 4.3.2 (Jan 4, 2019)

  • Fixes the presentation of the sliding calculations in the Detailed tab. The results were correct, but the formulas were wrong.
  • The top block size always changed to 16″ after returning from the Project Manager. This was fixed.
  • Additional links added to the Resources area in the General tab.
  • The content of the Help file was updated, as well as the User’s Manual pdf in the website.

New in ASDIP Retain 4.3.1 (Dec 23, 2018)

  • Improves the calculation of bending moments in pile cap. Now the program considers the top and bottom rebars, and it reports both bending ratios.
  • Fixes some text overlapping in the detailed report of restrained walls.

New in ASDIP Retain 4.3.0 (Dec 12, 2018)

  • Now you can specify either one or two curtains of reinforcement in the stem of cantilever walls. This is important for the calculation of the minimum shrinkage ares of steel. For thin stems usually only one curtain is specified.

New in ASDIP Retain 4.2.7 (Dec 8, 2018)

  • The software was showing development length problems for L-shape walls, such as when toe length = 0 or heel length = 0. In those cases now the development ratio is zero.

New in ASDIP Retain 4.2.6 (Nov 7, 2018)

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New in ASDIP Retain 4.2.5 (Sep 25, 2018)

  • Fixes the location of rebars in the Graph tab for walls with batter at toe side in metric units.

New in ASDIP Retain 4.2.4 (Sep 17, 2018)

  • Improvement of the title block when the company name shows. The program reduces the font size if required to fit.

New in ASDIP Retain 4.2.3 (Sep 14, 2018)

  • Corrects some units labels not changing to the right system.

New in ASDIP Retain 4.1.5 (Jul 5, 2018)

  • Now the software identifies the load combination that controls the pile axial load.

New in ASDIP Retain 4.1.4 (May 23, 2018)

  • The batter check box didn’t preserve the settings after leaving the program.
  • The value of concrete density couldn’t be changed.

New in ASDIP Retain 4.1.3 (May 16, 2018)

  • The stem vertical bar size was not being preserved after leaving the program.

New in ASDIP Retain 4.1.2 (Apr 28, 2018)

  • A message pops up when the trial limitation has been exceeded.

New in ASDIP Retain 4.1.1 (Apr 3, 2018)

  • The counterfort bending capacity in At-a-Glance was not being recalculated correctly.

New in ASDIP Retain 4.0.4 (Mar 29, 2018)

  • The stem rebar spacing in the Restrained module was not being recognized unless you pressed Enter. The issue has been fixed.
  • Added heel rebars to the Construction tab of the Counterfort module.

New in ASDIP Retain 4.0.3 (Mar 18, 2018)

  • Fixes a display problem with the rebars spacing in the Restrained module.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.7.5 (Mar 11, 2018)

  • For masonry stems, the program was showing the rebar spacing in inches, even when the selected units were metric.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.7.4 (Feb 18, 2018)

  • Fixes the calculation of stem wedge when the stem is tapered to the toe side. The program considered the backfill height, instead of the soil cover at toe. The error was not significant. When the stem is tapered at the heel side the calculation was correct.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.7.3 (Feb 9, 2018)

  • The program now intuitively prevents the backfill slope > friction angle. It also considers the seismic effect to prevent shear fluidization.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.7.2 (Feb 5, 2018)

  • Calculation name is now visible if you click the Rename button. This is useful for slight variations of the name since you don’t need to type all again.
  • When the toe length is zero (L-shaped walls) the programs doesn’t show the toe results. Instead it shows “N.A”. This was confusing.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.7.1 (Nov 13, 2017)

  • Corrects a bug introduced in the release 3.7.0 for the metric units.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.7.0 (Sep 18, 2017)

  • New feature: Now the masonry wall can be 6″ thick.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.6.0 (Aug 3, 2017)

  • New feature: Now the concrete density can be specified separately for stem and for footing. This is useful to model different stem materials.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.5.7 (Aug 3, 2017)

  • Corrects the water table location shown at the Graph tab.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.5.6 (Aug 3, 2017)

  • Corrects the max bearing label at the At-a-Glance page in the Restrained Wall module.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.5.5 (Aug 3, 2017)

  • Corrects the backfill pressure value at the Stem tab of the Restrained Wall module.
  • The units of the top reaction showed as k-ft/ft instead of k/ft in the Detailed tab.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.5.4 (Nov 9, 2016)

  • Improves the calculation of stem moments due to the concentrated load applied at the top with an eccentricity..

New in ASDIP Retain 3.5.3 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • Further improvement of the calculation of As minimum for the stem.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.5.2 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • Corrects a problem introduced in the release 3.5.0 in the calculation of As minimum.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.5.0 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • New feature: the minimum steel requirements can now be ignored for the toe and heel. If ignored, then the minimum steel is controlled by the shrinkage temperature requirements.
  • Fixes a problem with the “Save as Default” check box in Design Criteria.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.4.7 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • Improves the calculation of development length for toe and heel.
  • Corrects a problem trying to print out the Detailed report to pdf for restrained walls.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.4.6 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • Adds the seismic coefficients kh and kv to the Detailed tab and report.
  • Corrects two typos in the Heel and Toe design sections. The development length calculations showed “/12” instead of “*12”. The math was correct.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.4.5 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • Fixes the graph of the stem strength. In some cases the text was falling outside the viewport limits.
  • The bearing pressures in the Stability graph showed overlapped with other text in some cases.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.4.4 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • The Condensed report was showing a different seismic earth force then the Condensed tab in restrained walls.
  • The rebar cover was not being remembered after closing the calculation in restrained walls.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.4.3 (Apr 13, 2016)

  • Corrects a problem with the calculation of the water table for restrained walls. The program crashed when the water table was zero.
  • Corrects the location of the water table in the graphs.
  • Corrects the location of the passive force in the graphs.
  • Added new icons to the tool strip bar

New in ASDIP Retain 3.4.2 (Apr 13, 2016)

  • Corrects a bug introduced in release 3.4.1. The program showed an error message when opening an existing project.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.4.1 (Apr 13, 2016)

  • In some cases the message boxes could not close with a click of the mouse. In those cases the user had to press Enter, which was annoying.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.4.0 (Apr 13, 2016)

  • Improves the accuracy of the calculation of the shears and moments for restrained walls.
  • Corrects the calculation of the water density in SI units.
  • The calculation forms are now wider to fill typical screens.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.3.9 (Jan 7, 2016)

  • The “Check for Updates” menu selection was giving an error message.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.3.8 (Nov 5, 2015)

  • The company name was not being read correctly for network licenses.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.3.7 (Oct 20, 2015)

  • The icons of the program were regenerated to avoid incompatibilities with Windows XP.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.3.6 (Aug 18, 2015)

  • Fixes the Stem graph to correctly show the water table load in restrained walls.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.3.5 (Aug 15, 2015)

  • Corrects a problem with the calculation of the heel development length in MKS units.
  • Modifies the factor Mu/phi Mn

New in ASDIP Retain 3.3.4 (Jun 25, 2015)

  • Fixes a problem with the calculation of the water table load in restrained walls.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.3.3 (Jun 24, 2015)

  • The maximum water table height is the backfill height plus the footing thickness. The point of reference is the bottom of footing.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.3.2 (Jun 23, 2015)

  • Corrects a discrepancy in the Detailed report about the calculation of the water table. The calculation itself was correct, but the exposed formula was not.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.3.1 (Jun 4, 2015)

  • Modifies the title block in reports to accept either square or non-square logos. This improves the quality of the reports.
  • Adds a check box in the Settings | Preferences to specify either to include or exclude the company name in the reports. This is useful when the logo already has a text with the company name.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.3.0 (May 30, 2015)

  • Fixes some problems with the installation of floating network licenses.
  • Improves the general format of the graphics.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.2.9 (May 25, 2015)

  • Corrects some problems with global units MKS.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.2.8 (May 8, 2015)

  • Under some conditions the bearing eccentricity under factored loads may become equal to footing length /2, and therefore there’s no possible mathematical solution for the toe design. In those cases “N.S.” has been added, which means “No Solution” for the restrained wall module.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.2.7 (May 7, 2015)

  • Fixes a problem introduced in the release 3.2.6 for the top restrained module.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.2.6 (May 6, 2015)

  • Fixes a bug in the calculation of the horizontal force due to a strip surcharge in the top restrained wall module.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.2.5 (Apr 25, 2015)

  • Internal modifications to accept floating network licenses.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.2.4 (Feb 19, 2015)

  • Under some conditions the bearing eccentricity under factored loads may become equal to footing length /2, and therefore there’s no possible mathematical solution for the toe design. In those cases “N.S.” has been added, which means “No Solution”.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.2.3 (Jan 10, 2015)

  • Corrects the format of the formulas for As min in the Detailed tab. The result of the formulas was OK.
  • The formula of wall taper calculation for overturning was corrected. The result of the formula was correct.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.2.2 (Jan 9, 2015)

  • Corrects the formulas for the soil bearing calculation to reflect the controlling load combination. The Graph tab has also been revised to show this graphically.
  • A new field for the Concrete Density has been added, so that the actual density can now be specified, rather than the assumed value of 150 pcf.
  • The detailed tab was revised to correct the wall seismic effect calculation. The wall selfweight appeared as zero. The end result was OK.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.2.1 (Jan 7, 2015)

  • Improves the graphics format for easier reading.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.2.0 (Dec 6, 2014)

  • Adds the check of the minimum steel area As min for the stem, toe and heel. The program did this check internally and now it’s explicitly part of the output and reports.
  • In the Restrained Wall module, the Geometry tab now includes a Stem Fixity group box to select either fixed or pinned base. This was part of the Criteria dialog box, but it was not very noticeable there, so this important feature was not being utilized by most of our customers.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.1.4 (Nov 17, 2014)

  • Adds the Resources section on the General tab.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.1.3 (Oct 30, 2014)

  • Corrects the calculation of the masonry wall selfweight in MKS units.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.1.2 (Oct 20, 2014)

  • Internal modifications to improve the general performance of the software.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.1.1 (Oct 15, 2014)

  • Improves the calculation of the development length of the rebars.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.1.0 (Sep 19, 2014)

  • The licensing system has been enhanced. Now the program accepts either local individual licenses or floating network licenses.
  • A new check box has been added to allow the user information to be saved as default. This will save time entering the engineer, email and phone multiple times.
  • The Save As logic has been modified so that now the program remembers the last folder you chose. In the last version the default folder was the user local folder. It was annoying to browse to the project folder every time.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.0.4 (Sep 5, 2014)

  • Further improves the robustness of the software. The user interface has been thoroughly checked.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.0.3 (Aug 16, 2014)

  • Substantially improves the robustness of the software by preventing crashes in some situations. Sometimes leaving the field blank produced this effect.
  • The license system is also more secure.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.0.2 (Jul 31, 2014)

  • Fixes a bug in the report. The footing thickness appeared in feet, instead of inches.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.0.1 (Jul 7, 2014)

  • Includes the calculation of water buoyancy when there’s a water table above the base of the wall.

New in ASDIP Retain 3.0.0 (Jul 2, 2014)

  • New paid version. To upgrade please place your order.
  • New Detailed tab that shows the formulas and mathematical expressions. Complete transparency in the calculations.
  • Full compliance with the latest IBC-12, ACI 318-11 and MSJC-11.
  • The stem material can be either concrete, masonry, or a combination of both.
  • Multiple new features. Please refer to the Features page in the web site for details.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.4.0 (Jun 23, 2014)

  • The report now includes high quality images.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.3.4 (Mar 26, 2014)

  • The Equivalent Fluid pressure was not being remembered by the program after closing.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.3.3 (Feb 20, 2014)

  • Adds a list of the Design Codes in the report.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.3.2 (Jan 21, 2014)

  • Adds the saturated density variable, which is used to calculate the backfill properties below the water table.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.3.1 (Dec 7, 2013)

  • Fixes a problem with the report for the Restrained Wall module.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.3.0 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • Fixes a bug introduced in version 2.2.5, preventing the program to retrieve calculation files previously saved.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.2.5 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • Some improvements were implemented to the automatic update feature. If there’s a problem installing this update, please close the program and install the update from our web site.
  • Numerous internal modifications to improve the speed and efficiency.
  • The Display dialog box doesn’t show at startup anymore, and the default is widescreen display.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.2.0 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • The program now works fine with either commas or periods as decimal separator.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.1.9 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • Added ”Check for Updates” and “Updates History” to the Help menu bar.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.1.8 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • The reinforcing bars database was further enhanced to accept: Imperial US (ASTM A615), Metric Canada (CSA G30.18), and Metric Europe (EN 10080).

New in ASDIP Retain 2.1.7 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • Updated the licensing parameters.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.1.6 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • Improved the user interface. Now all windows have a non-sizable border and the minimize button has been added.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.1.5 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • Metric rebars have been added.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.1.4 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • Improved the robustness of the program. Some strange results were obtained under extreme cases, such as zero-toe or zero-heel.
  • Minimum thickness was set for footing and stem of 6″ or 15 cm. which is realistic from the practical standpoint. Minimum stem height is 2 ft or 0.60 m. Minimum values for f’c and fy are 1 ksi or 7 MPa or 70 Kg/cm2.
  • Implemented the “Wall Restrained at Base Against Sliding” condition.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.1.3 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • Corrected the stem moment values when the bar cutoff is specified. The graph was correct, and now the tabulated values at the Detailed tab reflect this behavior.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.1.2 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • Modified the behavior of the Stem Thickness controls to simplify the input. Now the program internally adjusts these values so that the thickness at the top is never larger than the bottom. The last version showed a pop-up message.
  • The “Stem Is Tapererd” check box has been deleted.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.1.1 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • The program now authomatically verifies if there is an update available at startup. If so, it downloads and installs the update, otherwise it runs the program normally.

New in ASDIP Retain 2.1.0 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • The program is now DPI aware, which means that it may run in different DPI settings in your computer.