I want to place an eccentric point load on the footing to model a temporary support in RC-Pier. What's the best way to do that? I tried applying a dead load to the footing tab under DC1, however the input is a little confusing and there is no way to…

We are working a substructure design in which, due to the geometry of the roadway, it may be necessary to have the column rotated at an angle from the orientation of the pile footing on which it sits. In the past we've had to handle this via calculation…

I'm trying to apply vertical wind loads on a pier per AASHTO LRFD 3.8.2. The problem I have is with the load combination generation. This load shoud only be applied during Strength III and Service IV limit states. Is there a way to specify this for the…

When performing the footing design with my data file on my C: drive I've noticed lots of disk activity and little cpu usage. With this setup my particular footing takes 1.5 hours to complete the design. If I place the data file on a seperate hard drive…