Engineering Calculators
🚀 New Features
- Cantilever Retaining Wall 🇺🇸: Released IBC 2024 version with ASCE 7-22 and TMS 402-22 updates; fixed At-Rest pressure calculations and zero-length heel handling.
- Restrained Retaining Wall 🇺🇸: Released IBC 2024 and ASCE 7-22 version with improved shear key widget visibility.
- Wind Load Templates 🇺🇸: Added parapet calculations for ASCE 7-16, fixed MWFRS Exposure B minimum for low roofs, and implemented BFS 2024 wind maps.
🛠️ Improvements & Fixes
- Snow Load ASCE 7-22 🇺🇸: Updated drift height formulas, replacing with respective roof lengths for leeward and windward calculations.
- Timber Connectors ASD 🇺🇸: Updated Simpson Strong-Tie connection database based on the 2026-2027 catalogue.
- Concrete Column 🇺🇸: Added X/Y axis compass annotations to section view diagrams for improved orientation clarity.
- Composite Beam LRFD 🇺🇸: Fixed stud spacing calculations to properly constrain layout and added utilization reporting for shear strength.
- Masonry Wall ASD 🇺🇸: Fixed self-weight calculations for fully grouted walls by correcting section properties.
- Steel Beam 🇨🇦: Added minimum width and depth filters to the member selector.
- Wood Beam Templates 🇨🇦: Optimized the one-page summary for letter size by hiding non-essential widgets.
- Timber ITI Database 🇨🇦: Fixed and reorganized the internal database structure.
- CFS Steel Member 🇦🇺: Corrected references for unequal end moment coefficient calculations per AS4600.
Atlas Tube Connection Hub
🚀 New Features
- WF-to-HSS Shear Connection 🇺🇸: Added missing limit states including block shear, strength at bolt holes, and plate buckling for Single and Through Plate connections when axial loads are present.
- HSS-to-HSS Round X Connection 🇺🇸: Implemented complete limit states for TKYX shear calculator with summary diagrams and valid cases for both gapped and overlapped configurations.
- WF-to-HSS Moment Connection 🇺🇸: Added OMF seismic limit state checks per AISC 341, including joint capacity evaluation for wrap-around/diaphragm cases with beams on both sides.
- Column Bracing 🇺🇸: Added forked end plate calculations including cap plate capacity, HSS face local yielding/crippling, splice-to-cap plate weld checks, and introduced initial support for the “Bolted Knife Plate” brace connection option.
- HSS-to-HSS Shear Connection 🇺🇸: Implemented comprehensive axial load limit states for Exterior Plates, Coped Beam, Thru-Bolt, Single Plate, and Field-Welded connections.
- HSS-to-WF Shear Connection 🇺🇸: Expanded the End Plate/Face Plate calculator with tension and compression limit states across beam, end plate, bolts, face plate, and WF column components.
- Truss Type Connection 🇺🇸: Added 19 new validation presets for combined connections (K&Y, K&X, X&Y, X&T, Y&Y, Y&T variants) and refined load distribution logic for K-type connections.
- HSS-to-HSS Shear Connection 🇨🇦: Added axial load limit states for Single Plate, Coped Beam, External Plates, and Through Bolt Coped Beam connections.
🛠️ Improvements & Fixes
- Dynamic Diagrams 🇺🇸🇨🇦: Updated Column Bracing and Chevron Bracing calculators to support HSS sections with generalized geometry equations.
- HSS-to-HSS Shear Connection 🇺🇸: Enhanced dynamic diagrams with weld symbols, extended side view configurations, and top view for through-bolt and coped beam connections.
- WF-to-HSS Moment WT Connection 🇨🇦: Added top view visualization and fixed weld symbol display for Short Tee configurations.
Platform Improvements
🛠️ Improvements & Fixes
- Organization Settings: Restricted admin-only tabs from non-admin users with proper role gating.
- Project Defaults 🇺🇸: Updated references to include IBC 2024 and ASCE 7-22 citations alongside existing standards.