I need some advice.
Situation
I have a flared steel bridge. the bridge is continuous. i am using leap steel bridge. there are 6 girders.
basically girder spacing at abutment 1 is 14 ft +/- and pier 2 is 13 ft +/-. (Flare portion).
From Pier 2 to pier 5 the girder spacing remains 13 ft +/-.
I tried making the flare portion a different member group than the straight portion, but that makes it like 2 different spans, but i need it to be a single continuous bridge.
Question
Any help on how to do this?
cant share more than this due to external issues.
thank you
I would suggest you to use the Custom Beam Path option in LBS for modeling the layout of the Beam.
Please check the link for the solution.
For more information related to Leap Bridge steel program please check the wiki articles in the below mentioned Bentley Communities link.
https://communities.bentley.com/products/bridge_design___engineering/w/bridge_design_and_engineering__wiki/56503/lbs-custom-beam-path
Please let me know if the above solution helped you in resolving you issue.
Please let me know if you need any additional information.
Thanks ,
Vinay