PV Elite 2011 Service Pack 1, March 2011 New Features/Enhancements ------------------------- Code Case 2651 for Electric Immersion Heaters has been Implemented ASCE 7-2010 Wind Code added ASCE 7-2010 Seismic Code added NBC-2010 Wind Code added NBC-2010 Seismic Code added An option to use the ASME Metric Database on Startup has been added For ASME VIII-1 jobs, PV Elite should analyze faster in most cases than before For ASME VIII-1, the conical output has been embellished Example problems from ASME PTB-3-2010 ( VIII-2 ) are now included For ASME VIII, when yield stress values are not given at higher temperatures, they may now be derived per UG-28 Some explanatory notes have been added to clarify the results of some of the calculations Maximum Considered Earthquake (MCE) is now available for the Indian Earthquake Code Fixes/changes to this Version ----------------------------- The ASME material database was missing coefficient IDs for Austenitic Group 3 Steels The ASME material database did not have MDMT values for SA-350 LF2 The nozzle dialog might abort when moving to the next nozzle The nozzle dialog might not update the data properly depending on the usage The calc weight button in the nozzle dialog would generate far to heavy values for EN and 5500 nozzles In the 2286 calculation the skirt length 'L' was taken as the overall length of the vessel 'Lu' If there was only an external pressure failure on a nozzle, there was no warning (ASME VIII-1) For ASME, if a nozzle passed External pressure but Failed 1-10, that would not be displayed in the status area For exchangers, the on-screen nozzle design pressure using the MAWP option might not come up correct When the additional static pressure option was used, the value of the pressure would be doubled for the nozzle design or not used at all if there were no nozzles For ASME VIII-1 conical sections, the allowables for the reinforcement are segregated for the appropriate use in 1-5 and 1-8 In the ASME Code table UG-45 there is at least one Metric value that does not seem correct. PV Elite now uses the minimum of the metric/imperial values in the UG-45 calculation. The overall MDMT value in the MDMT summary may not have been computed in all cases and this had been addressed. The on-screen calculation of trext (status bar) for ASME VIII-1 elliptical and torispherical heads did not include the UG-33(a)(1) check In some cases the tangent to tangent length was not reported correctly on the vessel summary The files Matfiled2.bin and En_Group.txt were missing from the 2011 install and have been added The material database editor did not allow retrieval of newly edited EN and 5500 user material databases There was a fix to the printout for thin expansion joints that caused an abort condition Fixes/Changes in CodeCalc ------------------------- *) Issue of crash when abutting nozzles located on cylinders and cone were analyzed per App. 1-10 method. *) 2009 year material database was been opened up in the input instead of Addenda 2010 material database. This could cause 0 yield stress and mismatch of UNS numbers between input and output. *) Added a missing material file *) Some Coefficient of thernal expansion Ids were missing for some materials. *) MAWP for some "smaller" nozzle that were exempt from UG-37 requirement per ASME code was show conservative. *) The cone-cylinder junction reincforcement area check calculation for external pressure case was using the allowable stress at internal design temperature. *) Fixed an issue where the graphics drivers were inadverently set to "msw" from "opengl".