16. Friction Pendulum System - Seismic Isolation - High Load Multi-Rotational Bearings
For RM Bridge inside OpenBridge Designer , as shown in the pictures below, the Friction Pendulum System - FPS - is a support device that provides the structure with some level of Seismic Isolation , it is also known as High Load Multi-Rotational - HLMR…
Partial Twin Leaf Pier Connections
The Partial Twin Leaf Pier Bottom Connections could be modeled by attaching the Previous full Cross-section to the new Double Leaf CS thru its nodes.
As shown in the picture below, the best practice is to use different node numbers and use rigid links…
9. Flexibility & Stiffness Matrix
The Demo Example number 9. Flexibility & Stiffness Matrix has an example of how to group elements to represent their structural behavior.
In general, it is very useful for large projects to reduce the size of the model and therefore the computational…
Modeler: Substructure wizard
In RM Bridge CONNECT Edition at Modeler inside the Piers definition there is a new option for inserting all substructure with meso-structure and infrastructure at once: the Substructure wizard .
Right click on the Piers to have access to Substructure…