I now have the 9th Ed. TEMA in hand an they have indeed removed the Kopp and Sayre analysis and gone to only FEA. Is there anything you can tell us about any plans to incorporate this into COMPRESS?
I haven't got the 9th Ed. TEMA just yet, but it looks like they have replaced RCB-8 Flexible Shell Elements with an FEA approach. TEMA is distributing Paulin's software (news 11/14/07) to do this analysis. The current flanged and flued expansion joint analysis in COMPRESS is based on TEMA 8th...