Bridge Pier Design Programs
Bridge Pier Design Programs
(OP)
I was curious what programs people use to design bridge piers/bents? My company has historically used RC Pier / LEAP but we've had issues with Bentley and this product. With this we're looking around. Thanks in advance.






RE: Bridge Pier Design Programs
Seth Guthrie
RE: Bridge Pier Design Programs
We've sinced moved to Bridgelink / PGSuper for our prestressed concrete superstructures. We're now looking for a pier program to compliment.
RE: Bridge Pier Design Programs
RE: Bridge Pier Design Programs
RE: Bridge Pier Design Programs
I've found a few with online searches like VBent and FB-MultiPier but I don't know anyone that uses them.
RE: Bridge Pier Design Programs
I did a search and could not find any record of an issue similar to what you described. If you logged an issue with Bentley support please provide the SR number so that I may track it down and contact you.
Regards,
Ignacio
RE: Bridge Pier Design Programs
Since then, we've been using older versions of Conspan and RC Pier that we trust, supplementing with spreadsheets to keep currenty with AASHTO. My company has been testing out PGSuper recently. I haven't personally tried it yet but it sounds like its been impressive and moving forward it will be our concrete superstructure program (It being a free program doesn't hurt either - thanks WSDOT). But for pier designs, we're still using RC Pier with the workarounds I described. This isn't really that bad, especially when the pier is short and the wind loading is simple (Kz = 1.0). But if there is another program that can do piers, it'd be nice to fully move on.