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Enhancement: Streamlined the program to model and analyze a single span pole-wire-signal system.
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Enhancement: Wind is applied perpendicular to the span length.
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Enhancement: The program can now be used to design the signal system as ASD or LRFD.
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Enhancement: The system is applied with two load combinations, namely, dead load only and a combination of dead and wind loads with user-specified load factors.
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Enhancement: The concrete strain pole dimensions and capacities are updated as per the FDOT Index 17725.
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Enhancement: The wind pressure equation is updated to include the user-specified directionality factor.
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Enhancement: The user-specified or variable signal drag coefficient option is implemented.
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Enhancement: The uplift coefficient is no longer used in the program. To simplify design, the drag coefficients required by the FDOT have been adjusted to account for uplift.
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Enhancement: The user-specified material resistance factor for wires on the "Design Parameters" dialog is used to calculate maximum cable forces.
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Enhancement: Updated signal/sign area and centroid distance calculations.
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Enhancement: Input file saving algorithm is streamlined.
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Enhancement: Signal/Sign add and modify dialog improvements.
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Enhancement: Check done for the presence of at least one signal per cable.
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Enhancement: 6" backplate and 3" hanger option included.
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Enhancement: Kz Factor has a default value of 1.0.
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Enhancement: Streamlined the reading and updating of custom poles.
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Enhancement: Bug fixes and updates to add a new pole type.
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Enhancement: Default signal type updated.
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Enhancement: Updated "Define Winds" dialog to "Loads" dialog
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Enhancement: Printing the load and wind pressure factors and coefficients in the output file.
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Class 2: Fixed bug that erroneously calculated the ultimate pole capacity for only custom poles.
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Class 3: For one-point attachment models, signal load was applied twice at the signal location. This will apply additional demand on the model and the results will be more conservative.
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Class 4: For models which does not use the default signal, UI will display default signal in place of the actual signal type used. This might cause confusion to the user.