Automated Design of Continuous Bridges with Precast Prestressed Concrete Beams

Automated Design of Continuous Bridges with Precast Prestressed Concrete Beams
Author: Harry L. Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 175
Release: 1974
Genre: Continuous bridges
ISBN:

A Computer program has been developed in this study to perform the calculations for the design of continuous prestressed concrete bridge girders. The continuous girder is constructed from simple span precast concrete I-shaped beams made continuous by supplementary reinforcing in the deck and the ends of the precast beams. Specifications for the designs produced are those currently accepted by the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation. This volume of the report contains a description of the computer program, instructions for its use and information on its structure and operation.

Automated Design of Continuous Bridges with Precast Prestressed Concrete Beams

Automated Design of Continuous Bridges with Precast Prestressed Concrete Beams
Author: Harry L. Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 51
Release: 1974
Genre: Continuous bridges
ISBN:

A computer program to compute shear and moment envelopes for continuous beams has been written. The program, which was originally written as a subroutine for a continuous beam design program, handles a number of different live and dead loads. Included among these is an axle train (vehicle with up to 15 arbitrarily spaced wheels) which can be used to study the effects of overloaded or unusual vehicle configurations. A standard input form is used and the degree of detail of the output is user specified.

Verifying Automated Prestressed Concrete Design Software for MDOT Bridge Design Standards

Verifying Automated Prestressed Concrete Design Software for MDOT Bridge Design Standards
Author: Hussein Kadhim Abood Khalaf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016
Genre: Prestressed concrete beams
ISBN:

The design and analysis of bridges is a very critical and time consuming process. The automation of bridges design can save us time and effort, but the designer must have enough background with structural design of bridges in order to be able to analyze and understand the output of the automated design. This research shows the design and analysis of the superstructure of the US-27 Interchange Bridge at M-57 in Gratiot County of Washington Township, Michigan. The main purpose of this research is to establish a comprehensive design example following AAHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications and Michigan Bridge Design Manual. There was another goal for this research which is verification of the hand calculated design with the automated design through PGSuper Bridge design software. It was determined that both designs were generally correct. However, it appears that there were some differences in the calculated final values of girder prestress and final girder service stresses between the hand calculated design and the automated one. Slight differences were also noticed in some of the live load distribution factors and moment and shear envelopes for the prestressed girders when the PGSuper design was compared to the hand calculated one.