ZSoil 2025 Release Notes

Updated 14 September, 2025.

This document provides a general summary of important changes implemented in releases for the ZSoil® v2025 software product.

What’s New in ZSoil® 2025 v25.04

Analysis

  • Resolved issue with stability driver crashing when the solver switches to the next solver
  • Resolved issue with the consolidation driver which freezed during calculation when using initial stiffness (accelerated) nonlinear solver

Preprocessing

  • Implemented move, rotate, copy by translation, copy by rotation and copy by symmetry operations for loads and masses on elements
  • Resolved issue with applying loads “to selected elements”
  • Resolved issue with applying surface load “automatically to any structural element”
  • Resolved issue with selection and redrawing of Heat exchanger elements
  • Resolved issue with nonlocal constraints for explicit Heat exchanger elements
  • Resolved issue with reading corrupted INP files
  • Resolved issue with undo operation for splines
  • Resolved issue with visibility of mesh tying elements
  • Resolved issue with updating boundary conditions parameters from file

Postprocessing

  • Resolved issue with visualization of surface loads on elements
  • Resolved issue with changing time steps for nodal and element time history results
  • Resolved issue with drawing labels for Mxx for Axisymetric beams/shells results
  • Resolved issue with results when more than one eigensolver is run in one analysis

Menu

  • Resolved issue with bulk edit for geometry of beam materials
  • Resolved issue with load time function origin shift

Probabilistic module

  • Added LOO error diagram
  • Corrected user interface for uniform distribution definition
  • Resolved issue with crash during time steps definition for the Quantity of Interest
  • Added table with sensitivity analysis results for all methods
  • Now Bayesian analysis and Quantities of interest windows are resizable

Virtual Lab

  • Fixed the issue with parameter identification using triaxial test data when an unloading/reloading cycle was not included
  • Fixed issue with stiffness migration during parameter identification which occurred when the identified value of Rf was greater than 1
  • Fixed the issue with stiffness migration for more than 3 triaxial tests

What’s New in ZSoil® 2025 v25.02

Analysis

  • Resolved issue for interfaces with inherited properties when simulating 2-phase problem types
  • Resolved issue with applying TOL_RHS amplification factor during analysis

Preprocessing

  • Resolved issue with importing arcs from DXF file
  • Improved definition of load functions for initial stresses on elements
  • Resolved issue with mesh adjustment for subdomains when moving geometrical points
  • Improved parameter updating for nodal heat flux
  • Resolved issue when selecting interfaces defined on structural elements
  • Nodal objects and interface elements are now handled in Selected elements window

Postprocessing

  • Resolved issue with computing principal strains for small strain values
  • Resolved issue with element time history diagram for time steps when element does not exist
  • Resolved issue with displaying plastic zones for nonlinear beams

Menu

  • Resolved issue with floating license activation due to lack of WMIC in the latest Windows 11 releases
  • Resolved issue with bulk edit of Hoek-Brown model
  • Resolved issue with saving DAT file with direct tangential stiffness for interface material
  • Resolved issue with saving DAT file for local stability definition

Probabilistic module

  • Added Kucherenko-based sensitivity analysis
  • Resolved issue with running Bayesian analysis for more than 8 observations
  • Improved visibility of long labels in combo boxes of the Random variable dialog box