In LEAP Bridge Steel, the Live Load Report for Moments and Deflections gives displacements for Y and Z (no X). What are these directions? Do the match the global coordinate system, which seems to be Y = vertical and Z = transverse? I'm doing a finite…

I have a cross frame with a WT shape for the top strut. Based on the screenshot below, the program seems to be orienting the shape with the flange along the bottom instead of the top. Is this something that can be changed? Thanks

I am pretty new to using Leap Bridge Steel, and have a question regarding a project I am working on. I have attached a general framing plan, and was wondering if Leap Bridge Steel was capable of modeling it, mainly due to the partial length girders. The…

The bridge I am working on has 4 splice locations at each member. For some reason, after running an analysis, the first and last field splice do not appear to be updated and the program is still prompting me to run an analysis at those locations before…

In Leap Bridge Steel, I have a curved bridge, so the girder lengths are not integer values. Under the Member Definition tab I'm unable to manually input flange plate lengths to a sufficient decimal in order to be able to run analysis (see below for the…

Hi, In the article below it mentions that the issue where "Distance from top of concrete deck to the neutral axis of the composite section at the plastic moment was incorrectly calculated." is fixed. However, I'm still running into this problem when…

Open Bridge Designer Version: 10.08.01.30 Open Bridge Modeler Version: 10.08.01.87 Leap Bridge Steel Version: 20.00.00.24 I am having difficulties with using leap bridge steel within the open bridge designer application. I am finding that each…

I came across these issues while trying to export models from OBM to LBC and LBS. 1- When I send a skewed prestressed concrete bridge with the back of abutment as reference line to LBC, the transferred model will end up having flared beams and wrong…