Hello,
I am running a structural design on a box culvert, and I have a question on live load application using the old AASHTO Standard Specifications 17th ed. (Yes, I realize that most places are using the LRFD specs now. But anyway...)
The specs say that truck -or- tandem -or- lane should be...
I am a structural engineer, trying to find some help with CANDE-2007. It is a FEA program designed to study soil-structure interaction with respect to culverts. It is a public-domain finite element program written to satisfy a FHWA grant, so I would expect to see some forums on the web. No...
Hi all,
I am modeling the elastomeric bearing pad of a highway bridge. I am trying to apply a moment at the top-center of a rectangular solid element. The mesh is actually 2x2x9 length by width by depth.
When I apply a moment load at that top center node and run the analysis, I get a...