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…
LEAP Bridge Concrete DW loads
How does LEAP Bridge Concrete calculate the reactions for DL-Comp. (DW)? I added up all the DW reactions and compared to a hand calc of utlities and overlay loads. The total DW is nearly 4 times greater than my hand calcs. I have 4 beam lines with 0.05…
LEAP Bridge Concrete Reactions
In the Shear/Moment Envelope (&Reactions) Design output what is the difference between live load Max, Truck, and Lane? Is the max HL-93 including truck and lane loading? I have a 6 span continuous concrete superstructure.