• Sudden drop in Vc when providing flared sections in Conbox

    The bridge I'm analyzing has a flared girder and superstructure at the expansion piers. This is the cross section I have defined for this bridge: In order to directly obtain the area of steel required to resist direct shear; I removed the stirrups…
  • Self Weight Reaction

    In Conbox, when we select the Self weight reaction in the analysis model, does it include the self weight of the piers defined as well?
  • LEAP Conbox/Bridge Connect Concrete : Shear Calculation

    LEAP Conbox/Bridge Connect Concrete : How is the area of steel (Av/S reqd)required to resist vertical shear (Vs) calculated in the Detailed Shear Report when no stirrups are provided in a PT Box Girder design?
  • Girder cross section in Leap Bridge

    Dear friend, The library of girder section on Leap Bridge or Leap ConSpan is so limited (Super T girder for example). Are there any solution to expand this one; it is a so wonderful if we can down load the extended library file for these program. If…
  • New Release: LEAP Bridge V8i(SELECTseries 1) v9.0.0

    Release 9.0.0 of the LEAP Bridge Suite is scheduled to be released June 25, 2009. Several outstanding features are included in this release. Here is a brief list of some of the new features for this version : LEAP Bridge v 9.0.0 incorporates the…
  • LEAP Bridge V8i Release Enhancements

    LEAP Bridge v8.1.0 incorporates the following enhancements: • The ABC Wizard can now directly read in alignment, cross-section and profile information from LandXML files. The bridge model can now be generated very accurately directly utilizing…