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Vehicles
- Auto transfer of vehicle loads to bridge structure
- Extensive vehicle library including AASHTO and other codes
- Fully customizable vehicles
Vehicle Classes
- Vehicle classes are sets of one or more vehicles that can be assigned to act on lanes in a moving-load case.
- Only one vehicle in a class acts on the lane at a time. Results are reported for the vehicle causing the most severe response.
Load Patterns
- Unlimited number of load cases and combinations
- Automated design combinations based on selected design code
- Strength and service combinations
- User-defined load combinations
- Linear add, envelope, absolute add, SRSS, and range combinations
Load Combinations
- Automatic permutation of Wind directions and eccentricities
- CSiBridge will automatically generate wind loads based on various domestic and international codes including but not limited to:
- UBC 94; 97
- BOCA 96
- ASCE 7-95; -02; -05
- NBCC 2005
- Mexican
- Chinese 2002
- IS875 1987
- User defined
- Open Structure Wind Loading
Parametric Loading
- Superstructure loads may be defined and assigned to a bridge object model parametrically.
- Bridge Object loads may be assigned for any defined load pattern type and may include loads due to wearing surfaces, parapets, forms, diaphragms, girders, decks and more.
- Once the parametric bridge object loads have been defined they may be easily displayed and modified.
- Parametrically defined load assignments are preserved even when changes are made to the bridge object discretizations, deck types or alignments.
