ZSoil 2025 Release Notes

Updated 09 March, 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 v25.02

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