I am trying to get some information on this curved girder bridge design/analysis program developed by Bridge Sortware Development International, Ltd. Somehow I couldn't find the company's website or any information related to their product. Does anyone have experience using this program before...
I used to use traditional ANSYS GUI to build, solve, and postprocess the results. Now I have Workbench and also DesignModeler installed on my computer. DesignModeler seems to be very fancy but I am not sure if it is easy to learn and whether or not it can replace the traditional GUI...
I used to use traditional ANSYS GUI to build, solve, and postprocess the results. Now I have Workbench and also DesignModeler installed on my computer. DesignModeler seems to be very fancy but I am not sure if it is easy to learn and whether or not it can replace the traditional GUI...
I am working on the design of a concrete integral pier cap for a two-span curved girder unit. The column is about 48' high and the overall roadway is 50' wide. My question is how to perform the column analysis? Some technical papers I read required full longitudinal frame analysis with girders...
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I once used the traditional GUI of ANSYS. How hard does it take to get familiar to the Workbench? I sat in a presentation about Workbench recently and it really looks like a very good product. But where do you start? The help menu does not seem to provide good tutorials as for the...
We are trying to import the geometry of a steel bridge from MicroStation file into ANSYS. MicroStation is a CAD program like AutoCAD. It can export files in formats such as IGES, SAT, CGM ... The file format we selected is SAT. When imported into ANSYS, we got lines curved and areas not shown up...
I am about to use DESCUS I to design a curved girder bridge with 2005 LRFD spec. Is the program able to handle the new code? Thanks ahead for any input!
I am working on the load rating of a historic truss bridge. All the diagonals are steel rods which can't take any compression. I tried to use RISA but the program can't handle Tension Only (even you turn on the Euler Buckling option) and keep the truss stable at the same time. Even worse, the...
I wonder how AREMA specifies the rocking effect exactly. Chapter 15-1.3.5 says all the impact effects should be applied on top of each rail. But the rocking effect is actually calculated for individual girders. For example, if I have four girders spaced at 2.5ft, the gage is 5ft, then RE is 24%...
