Design engineers may struggle to start the design of bridges, especially when they are at the start of their professional career. On the other hand, experienced engineers may require to have an insight on their project before starting or they may want to perform quick checks for design verification and control processes. These require either using rule-of-thumb type very coarse estimations or generation of complex computer models that take a lot of time and effort.
Bridge Designer for I Beams software is developed for filling these needs: performing preliminary design and cost estimation with minimum amount of data. It can perform basic pretension I-Beam design (with several assumptions) according to different design specifications (AASHTO, Eurocode, Turkish Bridge Design Guidelines for highway bridges; AREMA and Eurocode for railway bridge) and serve users a report that will help with their work.
Bridge Designer for I Beams software is developed for filling these needs: performing preliminary design and cost estimation with minimum amount of data.
With the following input parameters:
Bridge type
Specification
Span length
Deck width
Material properties
Pier height and locations (for cost estimation)
The software can calculate and report:
Minimum number of girders required
Maximum number of girders possible
Number of strands and debonding
Interim design step results
Estimated cost of the bridge
Comparison of the above parameters calculated for all the applicable design specifications