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Anyone know of a Reliable Program to Rate Bridges (In particular Timber Trusses)

Anyone know of a Reliable Program to Rate Bridges (In particular Timber Trusses)

Anyone know of a Reliable Program to Rate Bridges (In particular Timber Trusses)

(OP)
Would anyone happen to know of a reliable software program in which is easy to use to load rate a timber truss bridge?

RE: Anyone know of a Reliable Program to Rate Bridges (In particular Timber Trusses)

(OP)
I forgot to mention that we have looked into the Bentley Lars Bridge Rating Software but based on its capabilities the software is only capable of rating steel trusses and not timber.

RE: Anyone know of a Reliable Program to Rate Bridges (In particular Timber Trusses)



There's a program called BRASS-TRUSS, developed by Wyoming DOT & NY State DOT. It's been around for years; never had a copy though so I can't say if it's any good.

http://www.dot.state.wy.us/wydot/engineering_techn...

RE: Anyone know of a Reliable Program to Rate Bridges (In particular Timber Trusses)

Army Corps of Engineers, for combat and construction MOS's, has a field manual (FM) that covers this very well. I forget the number, but I used it forty years ago in the service to rate timber trestle bridges.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
http://mmcengineering.tripod.com

RE: Anyone know of a Reliable Program to Rate Bridges (In particular Timber Trusses)


The Army Bridge Manual is FM 3-34.343

RE: Anyone know of a Reliable Program to Rate Bridges (In particular Timber Trusses)

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Thanks for the recommendations bridgebuster and msquared48. I am going to look into these and see what fits our applications best.

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