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Released May 23, 2006 with Design Office 2002 Service Release 3b
Important Note – These are descriptions to changes implemented in WoodWorks Connections for version 7.1 and may not reflect current program behaviour.
The following changes apply to Wood-to-Concrete connections only:
The calculation of both parallel and perpendicular to grain bolt design capacity had non-conservative errors of as much as 70% when working in imperial units with concrete-to-wood connections.
The units label displayed for concrete-to-wood ledge connections in the Materials view has been changed to plf when imperial units are selected. Previously, it was showing kN/m for both unit systems.
The force units in the design results output were shown as lbs for imperial and kN for metric. This has been changed to plf, and kN/m respectively.
Force Label
Changed the "Force" label on concrete-to-wood connections to say "Factored Force" to be consistant with all other geometries.
After switching from metric to imperial units, the magnitude of the Force input was being converted from kN/m to pounds per meter. This has been changed to plf.
The design note in the text output has been modified to say "...Connection valid for bolt embedment of 100 mm or more.". Previously it was referring to USA concrete provisions.
The overlap distance reported in the design results output of concrete-to-wood connections has been changed to indicate it is a continuous overlap instead of reporting a meaningless overlap length.
Changed the number of significant digits for the Factored load to two digits for metric and one digit for imperial, where previously both had zero-digit precision. Changed the number of significant digits for the Connection capacity to to have one digit for imperial units, where previously it had zero digits.