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• Adobe Acrobat 3D - Software for publishing, visualization and review 2D and 3D designs.
• AnalysisGroup - Tool for solving six common analysis problems: (1) Rectangular mat footings (multiple column or wall loads); (2) Flat rectangular plates in bending (walls, floors, with openings); (3) Shear wall systems (rigid or flexible diaphragms); (4) Beams on elastic foundations (multiple spans & shapes); (5) Circular tank (fluid-filled, above-ground or buried); (6) Continuous beams (multiple spans & shapes, hinges and cantilevers)
• BEToolbox - Collection of legacy bridge engineering tools by Washington Department of transportation. Includes: (1) BOXGIR - section properties of box girders; (2) COMGIR - computes bending stresses in the top and bottom flanges of a curved composite girder; (3) CURVEL - computes elevations for alignments with horizontal and vertical curves; (4) GIRCOMP - section properties of built-up or rolled beam composite steel girders; (5) GPILE -computes individual pile loads in a pile group; (6) PSGDES - precast girder design and analysis, camber and deflection calculations, and handling and hauling analysis for the AASHTO Standard Specification; (7) TORSION - computes torsional moments of inertia for closed cell box girder bridges and WSDOT standard prestressed girders; (8) TRSSMEM - computes geometric properties of built-up truss members; (9) ULT2AX - ultimate moment capacity of reinforced concrete sections subject to biaxial bending and axial load.
• BROKE - Legacy software from 1980 to to perform static or dynamic analysis of an electric transmission line system when one or more wires suddenly break. Source code in FORTRAN and related reports can be downloaded from the earthquake engineering online archive maintained by University of California Berkeley.

  BROKE: Dynamic Analysis of Electric Transmission Line Systems with Broken Wires

  Fleming, John F.; Siddiqui, Faruq M. A.

  Department of Civil Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1980,

  This program may be used to perform static or dynamic analysis of an electric transmission line system when one or more wires suddenly break. In the static analysis the displacements, the wire tensions, and the forces at the wire attachment points and the ground line moments are computed for the broken wire equilibrium position for each support structure. In the dynamic analysis the variation with time of the same quantities are computed and the maximum values and their time of occurrence, along with corresponding impact factors, are given. The analysis is performed for a mathematical model of the line system consisting of the individual structural elements which are: the wires; the suspension insulators; and the support structures, which are usually called towers. The static analysis uses the Stiffness Method of analysis in which the displacements at discrete points in the mathematical model are computed by solving a set of equilibrium equations obtained by summing external applied loads and internal resisting forces at each of the points. For the dynamic analysis a numerical integration approach is used to solve the dynamic equations of motion for a lumped mass mathematical model. The user can choose between two different numerical integration procedures.

  Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SWSC/BROKE.zip (46 KB)
• Barlist - Reinforcing Steel Quantity Estimates. Interactive bend guide for selecting bend diagrams, and support for third party add-in components.
• BridgeLCC - Life-cycle costing software for preliminary bridge design.
• CBS Pro - CBS Pro is program for structural modeling, preliminary design and "load take-down" software object modeling. It enables to model multi-story structures in concrete and other materials. Using the "object oriented" approach, CBS Pro allows the user to quickly build up a structural model using "components" such as beams, columns, walls, floors and openings. In this way, structures of almost any geometry can be defined quickly and easily. Following the preparation of the structural model, CBS Pro will calculate the loads on all structural components quickly and easily, using the "tributary area" approach or by adopting a full finite element analysis made "invisibly" inside CBS Pro. It can be easily integrated with other IFC-enabled software.
• Cadre Geo - Design utility for generating a wide variety of geodesic and spherical 3D models (wire frame or solid) for CAD and finite element analysis applications. Outputs clean DXF files suitable for CAD or structural analysis software.
• Concrete Mix Design Software Suite - FirstMix Lite - low cost concrete mix design software, FirstMix Express - determine optimal concrete mix proportions based on strength durability and workability requirements, FirstBreak - logging concrete test strengths in a database and performing statistical analysis
• DPOLES - Evaluation of damaged signal/light poles and sign structures.
• FREET - Multipurpose probabilistic software for statistical, sensitivity and reliability analysis of engineering problems. Simulate uncertainties of a problem at random variables level - material properties and loading, geometrical imperfections.
• GEOPAK Site - Dynamic, flexible, comprehensive and multidisciplinary site design for all project phases.
• Genetic Algorithm Optimization Spreadsheet - Program that can be applied to any Excel spreadsheet to optimize calculation outcome. Allows to set up to five design parameters and up to five design constraints.
• GrafiCalc 2010 - GrafiCalc 2009 is self-contained software that combines the disciplines of constrained sketching and "smart" calculations within one application that enables users to solve a wide range of design and engineering challenges with unprecedented ease, speed, and accuracy. GrafiCalc 2009 is the tool of choice for solving challenges where geometry and numerical aspects of the problem are inseparable.
• Load Combinations - Spreadsheet to assembles load combinations from individual load cases. The spreadsheet is very flexible to perform load combinations for different design methods, such as allowable stress design (ASD), Load Factor Design (LFD), and Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD). New load components and combinations can be easily added.
• MasterFrame Flat Slab Construction - Analysis, design and detailing of single and multi-story flat slab construction in accordance with BS 8110.
• MasterSeries 3D Model Manager - Modeling environment for structural analysis and design processes. Supports advanced automation, yet enables close "Engineering control".
• MathGV - Mathematical functions graphing software for plotting 2 dimensional, parametric, polar, and 3 dimensional functions.
• RiverCAD - RiverCAD is a sophisticated river modeling software than can be used for evaluation of bridge scour.

  The software was developed in cooperation with several major engineering companies involved in FHWA and DOT bridge replacement contracts to completely automate the FHWA HEC 18 bridge scour calculations and analysis, design, and reporting necessary for bridge replacement and armoring projects. RiverCAD will analyze a bridge for scour and create a "ready-to-submit" FHWA-accepted bridge scour engineering report in just minutes. The scour report includes all input data, equations, variables, intermediate results, final analysis results, and analysis narrative - along with placing the computed scour results directly on the bridge within the AutoCAD drawing.

  RiverCAD's bridge scour calculations and analysis can account for:

  • Contraction scour
  • Pier scour
  • Bridge abutment scour
  • Bridge skew
  • Pier skew
  • Pier shape
  • Sloping and skewed abutments
  • Soil bed material
  • Armoring of bridge abutments
  • Armoring of bridge piers
  • US, metric, or mixed unit-based input data
   
• Roark Formulas for Excel - Design and analysis of structural elements.
• Rockgrout - Suite of programs about cement grouting in rock foundations for dams and other heavy engineering structures.
• SABRE - Sign bridge analysis and evaluation system.
• SARA - Probabilistic-based assessment of engineering structures.
• SEL - Structural Engineering Library - Set of most common structural engineering calculations integrated into a single program with detailed online manual. Includes the following modules: (1) analysis - single span beam, beam on elastic foundation, torsional analysis of rigid diaphragms, section properties, pole footing, pile group load, multi-story seismic, multi-story wind, multi-story column; (2) timber beam & joist, multi-span timber beam, heavy timber beam, cantilevered beam systems timber column, wood ledger, shear wall & footing, plywood diaphragm, high-load diaphragm, bolt groups in timber; (3) steel - multi span beam, steel beam design, steel beam with torsion, steel column, composite beam, base plate, bolt group; (4) concrete - multi span beam, rectangular column, shear wall, square footing, combined footing, rectangular beam, circular column, tilt-up wall panel, general footing, rebar embedments; (5) masonry - masonry wall, column, shear piers, slender wall, pilaster, masonry lintel; (6) retaining wall - cantilevered, restrained basement.
• SHLAG - Legacy software from 1990 to analyze shear lag in simple and continuous T, I, and Box Beams. Source code in FORTRAN and related reports can be downloaded from the earthquake engineering online archive maintained by University of California Berkeley.

  SHLAG: Shear Lag Analysis of Simple and Continuous T, I, and Box Beams

  Song, Qi-Gen

  Department of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 1990,

  Stress distribution in wide beam flanges and the related problems of effective width or stress ratio have been studied experimentally and theoretically by harmonic analysis and by finite element analysis. Based upon some rational assumptions for the behavior of the web of the beam, a simplified shear lag analysis for the stresses in the flanges, which is convenient for a wide range of problems is implemented in SHLAG. The report discusses the convergence of the solution for peak stresses, and an improved technique is developed. Theoretically, due to the shear lag effect, the longitudinal distribution of the bending moment in a continuous beam with wide flanges is differenct from that for a prismatic beam analysed by elementary beam theory. A general procedure for determining the stress resultants in a continuous beam considering the shear lag effect is also presented. The program requires only a minimum amount of input data for the calculation of the stress distribution and the stress ratios in the flanges of these beams for a variety of loading cases.
• Scia Steel - Scia Steel is modular software for the control of the manufacturing and execution process of steel construction. The core of the system is made of the parts list (abbreviation B.O.M. for "Bill of Materials") and of the geometrical data on this parts list. The parameter setting of Scia Steel guarantees that this data-processing solution is appropriate for each organisation. Moreover, the modular approach allows an optimal adaptation to any modification with regard to the structure of the company. Many steel constructors already changed to CAD and the use of CNC machines. Scia Steel is the logical link between CAD and CNC for all work preparation with respect to treatment and transfer of seized data to related systems.
• SolidWorks - 3D mechanical design software.
• TEDDS - Electronic "calculation pad" for repetitive structural engineering calculations. Available as TEDDS Engineering Library (standalone program) or as TEDDS for Word for integration into MS Word documents.