Ashes 3.20

1 Features/improvements

Ashes can now be run from the Command Line Interface, enabling easier scripting and integration into other processes
RNAs can be set as downwind, the tower shadow is then computed with the Powles model
A fatigue report is now produced for a batch, giving a fatigue life that combines all load cases according to their probability of occurrence
FFT graphs can now directly be plotted from Ashes
Improvements in the display of the information window
New S-N curves have been added
Automatic calculation of Stress Concentration Factors for joints in truss towers improved
Relative damage and Relative damage per cycle added to fatigue sensor output
Load cases in a batch can be automatically generated by importing a wind rose file
Wave conditions can be automatically generated from wind conditions in batch
PID blade pitch controller can now be used for controllers that do not have a rated RPM (ex: Live)
Links from error messages to UM have been added

there can be issues when importing a support section with a custom name. Keeping the default support section solves it
when scaling a bade up or down, the offsets of the structural sections are set to 0. They can be manually adjusted from the Blade structure text file
Mann turbulent wind file cannot be read if there are spaces after the last semi-column. Generating such files from Ashes and copying the format solves the issue.

The inertia of stiff blades was incorrectly applied when yawing the RNA
Small stress ranges were incorrectly accounted for when estiating the fatigue life from histogram
Output files in the Statistics folder had the suffix .txt written twice
When a model was shared on the cloud, nonlinear springs would become linear
The visualisation of the wind field had inverted low and high speeds