Ashes 3.15

• Shear center and center of mass offset added for rectangular elements
 
• Timoshenko beam elements added
 
• Total pitch sensor added
 
• Python scripts UX improved
 
• Python loads can be applied to different support sections
 
• Python scripts can be used in batch
 
• Database for RNAs added
 
• Relative velocity output added to blade station sensor
 
• Mach number output added to blade sensor
 
• Added off-diagonal terms for springs
 
• Yaw PID controller added
  

2 Known issues and workarounds

• Visualising the wind field for a multi-rotor model crashes the program
  

3 Bugs fixed

• Rayleigh damping now working for nonlinear simulations
 
• Hub visualisation was dependent on the chord of the first blade station
 
• Crash when closing model with Python script after waiting dialog was shown
 
• Pitch angle was not reinitialised when using a Python script
 
• Damping loads were not applied correctly
 
• Interpolation error when evaluating turbulent wind at hub height
 
• Blade mass was 0 when copying a blade from the database