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ANALYSIS

The following two types of frequency

domain analysis have been added into
ETABS:

• Steady State analysis may be used in

lieu of the more computationally
intensive Time-History, often for cases
where the initial ramp up or cool down
periods are not considered important.
• Power Spectral Density analysis is a
method to perform a probabilistic
evaluation of random vibrations across
a frequency range.

STRUCTURAL MODEL

A new link property was

added to represent the
Sumitomo Viscoelastic
Damper produced by
Sumitomo Rubber
Industries.

The definition of point spring properties has been

enhanced / simplified so that simple, nonlinear
properties can be specified without having to first
define a link.
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codes have been added for
the Indian IS 11384:2022
and the Chinese GB50017
codes.

USER INTERFACE
Rebar detailing information for concrete columns and beams can now be accessed from the object right click form when
detailing results are available.

The rebar detailing editor for strip rebar can now be accessed from the design strip right click form when slab detailing
results are available.

An enhancement was made to display frame local

axes color in the section definition form and local
axes numbers in the model assignment display.
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OUTPUT AND DISPLAY

Frame force/moment diagrams can

now be displayed with colored
contours.

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INTRODUCTION

Learn more about the latest

enhancements in ETABS v22.0.0.

ANALYSIS

Serviceability assessment of
steel-framed floor systems
subjected to walking
vibrations according to AISC
Design Guide 11, Chapter 7
has been added.
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An enhancement was made to add the capability for

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2. Concrete beam, column, shear wall, and coupling beam
hinges using the reference standard ACI 369.1-22 as
specified in ASCE 41-23 Chapter 10.

Conversion of curved concrete beams

to shell slabs is now available.
Previously, only straight beams could
be converted.

LOADING

Response spectrum function for

Kyrgyztan "SNiP KR 20-02:2018" has
been added.

Auto wind load has been added for the

Vietnamese code TCVN 2737:2023.

STEEL DESIGN

The AISC 360-22 design

code has been added for
steel frame design (including
AISC 341-22 Seismic
Provisions), composite
beam design, composite
columns design, and steel
connection design.

Composite column design per CSA

S16-19 design code has been added.
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Steel joist design has been

enhanced with the following
new features:
1. New joist design code SJI
100-2020 has been added.
2. A new type of steel joist
section has been added,
"Custom Joist Section",
whose definition includes
component section data.
3. A detailed calculation
report has been
implemented.

CONCRETE DESIGN

An enhancement was made to add joint-shear design for

ACI 318-19 concrete frame design. Joint shear is now
performed for:
1. Ordinary moment frames (OMF) in Seismic Design
Category (SDC) B, using the nominal flexural strength of the
beams.
2. Intermediate moment frames (IMF), using the nominal
flexural strength of the beams.
3. Special moment frame (SMF), using the probable flexural
strength of the beams.

An enhancement has been added for Special

Structural concrete shear walls per ACI 318-19.
The design is now done using the amplified
factored shear force, Ve = Omega_v * w_v * Vu <
3.0 * Vu) per section 18.10.3.1. This check for
Special Structural Walls was not present in earlier
versions.
Determination of shear demand for walls with hw / ℓw ≥ 2.0
[Taken from ACI 318-19(22), Fig. R18.10.3.1]

An enhancement has been made to the ACI 318-

19 concrete frame design code so that it now
considers the interaction of major- and minor-
direction shear forces in a column per sections
22.5.1.10 and 22.5.1.11.
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Steel joist design per the SJI

2010 code has been
enhanced so that the design
calculations can now be
exported to reports and
tables.

MATERIAL LIBRARIES & DATABASES

A new material library has been added

for United States materials per the
ASTM A1085/1085M specifications.

New frame section libraries

have been added
conforming to AISC Shapes
Database v16.0.

REPORTING

Auto wind-load calculations for

AS/NZS 1170.2:2011 and 2021 loading
codes have been added to the project
report.

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API)

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INTRODUCTION

Learn more about the latest

enhancements in ETABS v21.2.0.

DESIGN

Steel connection design is now

available per the AISC 360-16 and AISC
360-10 codes. This includes Beam-
Beam, Beam-Column, Column-Footing,
welded, and bolted connections.

An enhancement has been made to the Eurocode 3-2005 steel frame design to update the design according to Corrigendum
2 released in 2009.

LOADING

The TSC-2018 response-spectrum

function has been enhanced to allow
specification of the R, D and I
parameters.

The auto-seismic load pattern and

response-spectrum function were
added for the Malaysian National
Annex of Eurocode 8-2004.

STRUCTURAL MODEL
 The frame hinge assignment feature
has been enhanced with four new
preset hinge assignment distribution
types:
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the frame object.
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2. Distributed Plasticity, which adds

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hinges along the length of the frame
object based on a specified integration
rule.
3. Equal Spacing, which adds hinges at
a fixed spacing along the length of the
frame object.
4. Continuous Support, which adds one
hinge at the center of every frame
element associated with the selected
frame object.

ANALYSIS

An enhancement has been made to allow the

“Number of (Internal) Threads for Analysis"
setting to also control number of threads that can
be used by the Multi-threaded Solver. This creates
less competition for resources and can speed up
analysis.

An enhancement has been made to speed up direct-integration time-history load cases with additional modal damping
specified for a large number of modes. For building structures, the higher-frequency modes typically respond statically to
seismic and wind loading, and stiffness proportional damping is more efficient for the damping at high frequencies.

OUTPUT AND DISPLAY

The option to disable saving of individual fiber results for Fiber P-M2-M3 frame hinges is now available. This can
significantly reduce disk storage when individual fiber stress-strain results are not needed. Detailed hinge results will still be
available, including the state and status of the hinge obtained from the fiber results.

DATABASE TABLES
The following "Analysis Results" database tables have been parallelized for increased speed during display or export: "Joint
Displacements, "Joint Displacements - Absolute", “Joint Drifts", "Pier Forces", "Pier Force Status", "Spandrel Forces, and
"Spandrel Force Status". In addition, individual table progress will now be displayed in the status bar while filling any of the
“Analysis Results” tables for display/export. The progress bar is effective for tables that take significant time to
display/export.

IMPORT AND EXPORT

Enhancement added for exporting

Non-Linear links from ETABS to
Perform3D. Following links types are
handled:

1. ETABS Damper - Exponential >

Perform3D Fluid Damper
2. ETABS Gap > Perform3D Nonlinear
Elastic Gap-Hook Bar
3. ETABS Hook > Perform3D
Nonlinear Elastic Gap-Hook Bar
4. ETABS Rubber Isolator >
Perform3D Seismic Isolator, Rubber
Type
5. ETABS Friction Isolator >
Perform3D Seismic Isolator, Friction
Pendulum

ETABS models exported to Perform3D now include shell For ETABS models exported to Perform3D, frame objects
uniform loads in the global coordinate system. These loads that are assigned a Pier or Spandrel label will be exported to
will be exported to Perform3D as lumped nodal loads on the Perform3D in separate element groups based on their Pier
nodes which form the shell elements. or Spandrel label names.
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will be exported as Perform3D Axial Strain Gage (2-node) components. Rotational type line gauges in ETABS will be
exported as Perform3D Rotational Gage, Beam Type (2-node) components. Shear type quad gauges in ETABS will be
exported as Perform3D Shear Strain Gage (4-node) components. Rotation type quad gauges in ETABS will be exported as
Perform3D Rotation Gage, Wall Type (4-node) components.
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LOADING

Several enhancements have been made to the handling of

time-history and response-spectrum functions:
∙ The processing of large function files, such as wind
records, has been made more efficient for speed and
storage.
∙ Functions can be added or modified after the analysis is
run and the model is locked.
∙ More control has been given to locating function files on
the local computer or network.

ANALYSIS

Parallelized design and

response-recovery have
been made more efficient for
speed, memory usage, and
disk IO for large analysis
models and/or models with
many long time-history
functions, such as wind
records. Parallelized
response recovery affects
certain larger output tables
and time-consuming
graphical displays.

DESIGN

Crack-width (serviceability)
design of concrete members
has been added according
to Eurocode 2-2004 and
Italian NTC 2008 codes. This
feature is available for beam
(M3) design and for the
design or check of column
reinforcement. Crack width,
concrete stress, and steel
stresses are calculated and
compared against the limits
imposed by the Eurocode 2-
2004.
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An enhancement was made to show

PT tendon vertical profiles in slabs and
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beams in Detailing drawings.

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Previously the PT profiles were shown
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DETAILING
Detailing of concrete and steel structures, as well as the production and management of schematic design drawings, is now
available from a new Detailing menu inside ETABS. It can now handle multiple towers as well.

Detailed reinforcement from beams, slabs, column stacks, and wall stacks can now be exported from ETABS to
Autodesk® Revit® through the CSiXRevitTM 2023 plugin to Revit 2023.

STRUCTURAL MODEL

Tributary PT tendons are now

accounted for in finite element-based
design of slabs and cracked-slab
deflection analysis (short- and long-
term).
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response-spectrum
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NBCC 2020 have been added.

Auto-wind load, auto-seismic

load, and response-
spectrum function based on
ASCE 7-22 have been added.

Loads assigned to null lines and null areas applied in any local or global direction are now transferred to the underlying
structural floors. In earlier versions only loads in the gravity direction were transferred.

DESIGN

AS 4100:2020 steel frame design has

been added.

Eurocode 4-2004 composite

column design has been
added.

OUTPUT AND DISPLAY

Cracked-section modifiers for beam

and floor objects are now included in
the database tables.
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Nonlinear shear-material
state and status output for
general wall hinges is now
available in the database
tables, deformed shape
display, and performance-
check output.

DATABASE TABLES
Performance-check definitions can now be edited when the model is locked and selected for associated tabular output.

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API)

Support for .NET 6 has been added

including a help topic in the "Key
Concepts" folder.

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The "Specified Rebar Layout"

rebar option for wall hinges
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The exponential and bilinear

viscous-damper link
properties have been
enhanced to add a Fixed
Length Damper option for
the axial degree of freedom.
When enabled, this allows a
fixed-length damping device
to be modeled together with
variable-length extenders
that are automatically
determined from the length
of the drawn link objects. For
analysis, the extender is
effectively a linear spring
that is in series with the
damper.
A built-in material library has been
added for Canada with steel materials
per the CSA G40.20-13/G40.21-13
standard, concrete materials per the
CSA A23.3 standard, and rebar
materials per the CSA G30.18:21
standard.

ANALYSIS

An enhancement has been made to

speed up generation of the analysis
model for models with nonlinear
staged-construction load cases and
many area objects using line
constraints.

DESIGN

The concrete code “CSA A23.3-19” has

been added for reinforced-concrete
and post-tensioned slab design.
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Reinforced-concrete and
post-tensioned slab design
have been updated for the
NZS 3101-06 code to
accommodate Amendments
1 to 3.

A new concrete slab design preference

is available for the "ACI 318-19" code to
optionally set the depth-dependent
shear-strength reduction factor,
Lambda_s, to 1.0 for mats and footings
per ACI 318-19 13.2.6.2.

LOADING
An enhancement was made so temperature loads on overlapping area objects
will be applied additively. Previously, temperature loads assigned to the slab
would not affect overlapping drop panel objects.

OUTPUT AND DISPLAY

Integrated wall reactions are now available for

graphical display and in a new database table.
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addition of functions to
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• Parameters for the Italian NTC 2018

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response-spectrum function.
• Design preferences and design
overwrites for steel frame code CSA-
S16-19.
• Parameters for eigen and Ritz load
cases.

The following enhancements have

been made to the Application
Programming Interface (API):

• The client can attach to any running

instance of ETABS given its process ID.
• A new command "Set as active
instance for API" has been added to the
Tools menu.
• A new interface cPluginContract has
been added to simplify plugin
development.
• Speed has been improved for external
.NET clients that call the API by
chaining properties and methods in
deeply nested loops.

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STRUCTURAL MODEL
A new general shear wall hinge has been added, which consists of a pair of orthogonal P-M3 or Fiber P-M3 hinges, plus a
linear or nonlinear shear material. These features allow the hinge to be used for modeling spandrels as well as piers, and to
handle more complex wall geometries, such as near openings or geometry transitions. General shear wall hinges can be
used for nonlinear static, staged-construction, and direct-integration time-history analyses.

The age of concrete at which loading is

applied can now be specified for long-
term cracked-section analysis.
Previously, the age at loading was
assumed to be 7 days.
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DESIGN

The CSA A23.3-19 code has been

added for concrete frame design.

The CSA S16-19 code has been added

for steel frame design.

The CSA S16-19 code has been added

for composite beam design.

DATA FILES

The handling of time history functions defined in external

data files with many data points has been significantly
enhanced for speed.

New section-property database files have been added for

steel sections produced by Indian manufacturers TATA,
Jindal Steel Ltd. and APL Apollo Ltd.

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Part 1 - Modeling & Loading Part 2 - Design & Performance-Based

Design
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as well as generated automatically along grid
lines.

Slab panels are a new entity that can be automatically generated using grids or support lines, or they can be user-drawn.
They overlay the floor system and can be used to apply live load for load-pattern analysis, and they can also be used to
report mid-panel displacements and soil-pressure summaries.

Moment and shear releases can now be specified

along lines within a slab object. Previously hinges
could only be specified at the boundaries of slab
objects.

Time-dependent behavior of
concrete has been added for
the AS3600-2018 code,
including creep, shrinkage,
and age-dependent
stiffness.

Scale factors can now be applied to time-dependent

material properties - creep, shrinkage, and stiffness -
allowing more control over behavior for special situations.
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LOADING
Pattern Live load is now available as a type of loading, Pattern loading, including Auto-Pattern loading, can now be
allowing manual assignment of live loads to different assigned to slabs. Auto-Pattern loading automatically
regions of the structure that will be automatically varied in creates multiple load patterns from specified live loads on
load combinations to produce the maximum response. slabs, each loading a single slab panel.

Auto wind loading has been added for the

AS/NZS 1170.2:2021 code.

Temperature gradient loads can now be assigned to frames

and shells, representing a change in temperature across the
depth that tends to cause bending.

ANALYSIS

New staged-construction
operations are available to
change stiffness modifiers
applied to frames and shells,
as well as end releases
applied to frames. These
operations reference named
sets of modifiers and
releases and they can be
applied to individual objects
or groups.

The speed of analysis has

been improved for nonlinear
modal time-history (FNA)
load cases that have a large
number of undamped linear
link elements, such as for
 meshed base mats on an
elastic foundation.

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The analysis engine has been optimized for newer AMD CPUs.

DESIGN
The reporting for the PT design of slabs has been enhanced with tabular and graphical displays of the moment capacity at
every station of the design strips, as well as a tabular display of the pre-compression due to PT along the strips.

Several enhancements have been Slab design for IS 456:2000 now Several enhancements have been
made to Eurocode 2-2004 concrete provides an option increase made to steel frame design for the
frame design, including improved longitudinal reinforcement in slabs as Eurocode 3-2005 and NTC 2008/2018
calculation of slenderness effects and needed to avoid shear links in the slab. codes, including improved calculation
new national-annex values of TanTheta of Mcr, and results output referred to y-
for shear design. z axes rather than major-minor axes.

PERFORMANCE-BASED DESIGN

Nonlinear frame hinges can

now be automatically
generated for coupling
beams per ASCE 41, Table
10-19 for flexure-controlled
members and Table 10-20
for shear-controlled
members.

User-specified rebar material is now available for defining

vertical and horizontal wall hinge reinforcement.

The hysteresis type can now

be specified for certain types
of auto-generated frame
hinges.
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Rotation Type", "Shear Hinge,
Displacement Type", and "P-M2-M3
GRAPHICS Hinge, Concrete Rotation Type".
Additionally, the following load types
can now be imported: Self Weight,
Nodal Loads, and Element Loads.

On-screen measuring tools are now

available to measure line lengths, the
angles between two lines, and the
areas and perimeters of closed
polygons.

PT tendon display options

now include Number of
Strands, Tendon System,
Vertical Profile Control
Points, Vertical Profile
Values, Total Length,
Jacking Force, and
Elongation.

DATABASE TABLES

A new table displays the

applied, reactive, and net
diaphragm forces acting at
column and wall locations
for selected floors.

DATA EXCHANGE
EXR files can now be imported and exported directly between ETABS and CSI products SAP2000 and SAFE. Previously this
feature required using CSiXRevit as an intermediary.

Shell uniform load sets can

 now be exported from

ETABS for import into Revit

using CSiXRevit.
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APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API)

API functions have been added or enhanced for accessing SP 63-13330-2021 concrete frame design, Eurocode 3-2005 steel
frame design, and NTC 2008/2018 steel frame design.

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