Version 8.2 support

Version Information

Find out about new and enhanced features in this release.

Find out about new and enhanced features in this release.

The full Installation And Execution Manual for 8.2-1 and 8.2-2.

More Information for Version 8.2 Releases

Version 8.2-2 was finalised on 11 December 2017.

The following bugs are fixed in this release:

ZENCR510	Possible incorrect handling of material type tabular on the material screen (GUI).
ZENCR509	Possible incorrect deltaK and Kmax values in some rows of the .bk files.
ZENCR508	The output from a crack growth analysis may contain zeros or NaN values for some items when multiple materials and subroutine user_material_id are used.

Version 8.2-1 was finalised on 21 August 2017.

The following bugs are fixed in this release:

ZENCR507	Possible incorrect default value for mapping parameter MIDSIDE.
ZENCR506	Possible 'Error 4089 - Unable to find node' when processing a split set.
ZENCR505	Possible incorrect calculation of failure condition if Kc is entered but Kic is not.
ZENCR504	Possible incorrect calculation of threshold condition if data is temperature dependent and entered in other than order of ascending temperature.
ZENCR503	Possible incorrect calculation of threshold condition if temperature is below the lowest temperature for which threshold data is defined.
ZENCR502	Possible Fortran error in routine plane.
ZENCR501	Incorrect warnings when processing the relaxation region.
ZENCR500	Integration will terminate with a misleading message if the cycle count for a step exceeds 2147483647. Also some format issues for very high cycle counts.
ZENCR499	Utility function utility_coords causes the analysis to stop if called for a node that does not exist.
ZENCR498	Possible incorrect extraction of results data (Process utility)

Zencrack 8.2-x is available for x86-64 machines running 64bit Windows e.g. Windows 64bit 7 / 8 / 10.

This release requires Intel Fortran Version 11.1 or later to use Zencrack user subroutines. (Version 11.1 is recommended).

Note:

For Windows 8, the program and documentation installers will create entries in the "All Apps" page that would normally appear in the Start Menu on Windows 7. The "Zencrack command prompt" and "Zencrack GUI" can be pinned to the Taskbar. All items can be pinned to the "Start" page. If you choose the option during installation, shortcuts for the command prompt and GUI are placed on the desktop in the normal way.
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Zencrack 8.2-x is available for x86-64 machines running 64bit Linux.

This release requires Intel Fortran Version 11.1 or later to use Zencrack user subroutines. (Version 11.1 is recommended).

Extensive testing has taken place using SuSe Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.

The Zencrack GUI is not supported on Linux platforms.

The license server installation is available for 32bit and 64bit Windows or 64bit Linux machines.

For license server installations the client machines do not have to match the license server machine type.