Bridge Optimisation

Analysis options

• Influence analysis
• Optimisation of bridge loading
• Bridge alignments
• Vehicle paths
• Standard and user defined vehicles
  • Full carriageway optimization
  • Lane by lane optimization
• Expand bridge loads
• Static analysis
  • Retain results at influence points

Bridge load optimisation for vehicle loads

• Australia: Manually bridge load optimisation for the draft DR 00375 of September 2001
• Eurocode: Manually bridge load optimisation for the draft prEN 1991-2 of August
• Hong Kong: SDM
• UK: BD37, BD21 HB, BD86 SV-TT, BD86 SV-Train, BD86 SV-150, BD86 SV-100, BD86 SV-80
• US: Manually bridge load optimisation for AASHTO (edition 16)