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CANDE Reference Availability?

CANDE Reference Availability?

CANDE Reference Availability?

(OP)
I am attempting to model corrugated steel pipe-arches with the CANDE soil-structure interaction program.  It appears straightforward to use the program (except for actual data determination of non-linear soil element properties), but the CANDE-89 users manual that I have refers to FHWA reports from 1976/1977 that I have been unable to locate.  NTIS originally had the reports published by FHWA, but there is no longer a reference to the documents on their web site.  It appears that they may only go back to 1990.  I live in a small town in Montana, so the public library is of little use.  Does anyone have any ideas on where I might locate these reports?  Has anyone used CANDE to model closed pipe-arches?  Thanks for any help!

RE: CANDE Reference Availability?

dear bsantana,
I am interested in using cande-89 and similar soil-structure interaction programs, but I live in italy and I have problem like yours in obtaining the code and the documentation. Could you please contact me?
Vittorio Lucarelli P.E., Ph.D.
md1704@mclink.it

RE: CANDE Reference Availability?

(OP)
Dr. Lucarelli,

The CANDE-89 executable and source code can be readily obtained from McTrans for $5 each.  The user's manual is hard copy and costs $20, postpaid in the US.  The code would be a challenge without the user's manual.  The program worked well for me once I learned the data preparation tricks and understood the limitations and assumptions used in the program.  The DOS executable worked off-the-shelf under command prompt on mt Windows 2000 machine.

Barry Santana

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