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BRIDGE DESIGN & ANALYSIS SOFTWARE

BRIDGE DESIGN & ANALYSIS SOFTWARE

BRIDGE DESIGN & ANALYSIS SOFTWARE

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I am looking for some feedback as to which software is good for bridge analysis and design while working in CANADA

RE: BRIDGE DESIGN & ANALYSIS SOFTWARE

STAAD Pro by Bentley has a pretty comprehensive set of engineering software.

RE: BRIDGE DESIGN & ANALYSIS SOFTWARE

I've used CANBAS (formerly OMBAS) published by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario.  It supports the CHBDC, S6-00.  See http://www.itegroup.ca/OMBAS.htm.  It's expensive and can have a long learning curve if you try to diverge from the standard bridge models supported by the GUI.  It's not very polished though with practice the standard models can be analysed very quickly.

You can also look at Safi (www.safi.com) and VisualDesign (www.civild.com).  I don't have any experience with them but they do support the CHBDC.

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