There is a bug in the code at the point where the material properties are
imported from the thermal.csv. Only the first eight characters of the !!Short
Name are read into the code to find the relevant material properties.
Fortunately this was flagged up by Sam B some time ago so people in Atkins have
been aware of it. Unfortunately, other companies haven’t been so lucky with
one project in Frazer Nash (see attached email) naming all their different
concrete wall thicknesses CONCRETE1000, CONCRETE200 etc. which means CFAST only
reads in CONCRETE and thus not differentiating between any of the thicknesses
that they specified. Furthermore, the GUI reads in the correct name but the
code does not so it isn’t even flagged up in the GUI when this problem
occurs. Again, this doesn’t necessarily need changing but guidance in the
user manual should definitely be stated.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by cfastdev@gmail.com on 26 Feb 2015 at 8:57
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
cfastdev@gmail.comon 26 Feb 2015 at 8:57