• LEAP Substructure - Full height abutment on piles - footing reinforcement design

    Hi - I'm designing a full height abutment and wingwalls on a shared footing supported on piles. LEAP has calculated an extremely large design moment and I can't quite back into the number. Can you explain how the software determines the maximum design…
  • OpenBridge Concrete Substructure - Pile Reaction Calculation

    Hi, I'm working on an abutment design and am trying to check pile reactions using the bolt/rivet theory as described on the RM Wiki page: Abutment Design -- Pile Reaction calculation I have 2 questions: 1) I just wanted to quickly confirm the formula…
  • RCPier - Spread Footings on Rock vs Soil

    Hi there, I'm checking a design calculation for an abutment on spread footings done in LEAP RCPier. I couldn't find any information in the user manual or input/analysis tabs to determine how bearing pressure is calculated for a wall bearing on soil…