Rev. 5.02 Bug Fixes

REV NO: REV 502.001

DATE: August 26, 1995 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

If one has a syntax error in either an RAO or SRESPONSE command, the program will abort with "FREQ_MARK Already Allocated".

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.002

DATE: August 26, 1995 Discovered By: Georgina Maldonado

Description Of Problem

If one has more than one body, then the added mass and damping matrices in the FREQ_RESPONSE Menu will not be correct.

Programs Affected: MOSES, OSCAR II


REV NO: REV 502.003

DATE: September 01, 1995 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

One cannot use PI -PLANE until after some PI has been issues.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.004

DATE: September 06, 1995 Discovered By: Carl Webb

Description Of Problem

The -SLOSH option disappears when an &CMP_BAL command is used. Also, the resulting ballast condition may not be in equilibrium when -SLOSH is re-established.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.005

DATE: September 13, 1995 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

If one selects -CG on a TRAJ command, then the title will say "location of the origin" instead of "location of the cg".

Programs Affected: all


REV NO: REV 502.006

DATE: September 13, 1995 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

The flow rate is incorrect when there is an internal pressure.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.007

DATE: September 14, 1995 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

If one floods a tube tank (&compartment -flood), the buoyancy force will not be correct.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.008

DATE: September 20, 1995 Discovered By: Carl Webb

Description Of Problem

In very rare circumstances, one can get a bad plot of a mooring line. This occurs primarily when one has a lot of segments and verify low pretensions.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.009

DATE: September 22, 1995 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

For some problems when a body is far away from the global origin, &weight -compute may not yield a good answer.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.010

DATE: September 26, 1995 Discovered By: Bill Greiner

Description Of Problem

The Fourier Coefficients reported with EXFORCE for

following a SRESPONSE are incorrect by a factor of 12.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.011

DATE: September 27, 1995 Discovered By: C. Owens

Description Of Problem

Offsets on plates do not work correctly.

Programs Affected: MOSES


REV NO: REV 502.012

DATE: October 10, 1995 Discovered By:

Description Of Problem

The string function &BODY was not returning the proper value for the body center of gravity.

Programs Affected:


REV NO: REV 502.013

DATE: October 23, 1995 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

The results of &body( weight ) are incorrect if one has defined a load group margin.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.014

DATE: October 23, 1995 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

The command v_tanaka does not produce results which can be plotted. The report, however, is correct.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.015

DATE: October 23, 1995 Discovered By: Guillume Le Marechal

Description Of Problem

If one has a compartment with the same name as a part, but not the current part, then the load mapping will not be correct.

Programs Affected: OSCAR II, MOSES


REV NO: REV 502.016

DATE: October 24, 1995 Discovered By: Peter Lai

Description Of Problem

If one has a body z axis which is radically different from vertical, then Morrison's' equation in the frequency domain will not be correct.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.017

DATE: October 24, 1995 Discovered By: Curtis Owens

Description Of Problem

If plates elements are quite small, then their bending stiffness is too large.

Programs Affected: MOSES


REV NO: REV 502.018

DATE: October 25, 1995 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

If one resizes, and no mating shapes are found in the table, then some machines may abort with a Fortran write error.

Programs Affected: MOSES


REV NO: REV 502.019

DATE: October 28, 1995 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

If one has over 200 input tokens, problems will result, even though there is no error message.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.020

DATE: October 30, 1995 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

If one imports a hydrodynamic database during an inmodel, and then attempts to read hydrostatic data, an error will result.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.021

DATE: November 01, 1995 Discovered By: R.Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

The velocity and acceleration statistics computed in the FREQ_RESP menu are incorrect when derived from a SRESPONSE.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.022

DATE: November 03, 1995 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

The spectral linearization for viscous damping of Morrison's equation elements is not quite correct.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.023

DATE: November 07, 1995 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

If one adds data to #tanker for TBEAM or AEY, they will be incorrectly scaled and give bad wind forces.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.024

DATE: December 06, 1995 Discovered By: Tim Nolte

Description Of Problem

The tolerance for a vertical tube is too coarse. This causes a tube at small roll angles to have an incorrect cb.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.025

DATE: December 13, 1995 Discovered By: Curtis Owens

Description Of Problem

When "cans" are used to support a jacket during transportation using the install macros, it is likely that the can will be chosen as the chord. This messes up the offsets, and the joint classification.

Programs Affected: MOSES


REV NO: REV 502.026

DATE: December 22, 1995 Discovered By: Georgina Maldonado

Description Of Problem

In &instate command issued within the Hydrostatics Menu has no effect.

Programs Affected: all


REV NO: REV 502.027

DATE: December 29, 1995 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

Sometimes a transportation does not find equilibrium.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.028

DATE: February 05, 1996 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

One cannot use a rod element to model a buoy connected to a production riser.

Programs Affected: MOSES, OSCAR II


REV NO: REV 502.029

DATE: February 07, 1996 Discovered By: Sturle Hegreness

Description Of Problem

Plots and tensioning of lines with attachments below the anchors does not work properly.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.030

DATE: February 21, 1996 Discovered By: V. Bouyssy

Description Of Problem

The command &describe nod_nas will give an incorrect error message. Everything still works as documented.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.031

DATE: February 24, 1996 Discovered By: Anders Nedreberg

Description Of Problem

There are difficulties with ALINEs with bottom slope and small pretension.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.032

DATE: March 05, 1996 Discovered By: J. Jorgensen

Description Of Problem

A PC will abort with a co-processor fault if one trys to do diffraction on a mesh with a line as a panel.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 502.033

DATE: March 07, 1996 Discovered By: G. Marechal

Description Of Problem

The drift forces are incorrect during a SRESPONSE if the body has greatly changed heading.

Programs Affected: All