Implementation of straight and curved steel girder erection design tools construction : summary.

Stith, Jason; Petruzzi, Brian; Helwig, Todd; Williamson, Eric; Frank, Karl; Engelhardt, Michael; Kim, Hyeong Jun; University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research

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Implementation of straight and curved steel girder erection design tools construction : summary.

Published Date:

2010-11-05

Language:

English

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Creators:

Stith, Jason ; Petruzzi, Brian ; Helwig, Todd ; Williamson, Eric ; Frank, Karl ; ... More ▼

Corporate Creators:

University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research

Corporate Contributors:

Texas. Dept. of Transportation

Subject/TRT Terms:

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Publication/ Report Number:

FHWA/TX-11/5-5574-01-1

Resource Type:

Tech Report

Geographical Coverage:

Texas

Corporate Publisher:

University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research

NTL Classification:

NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-Bridges and Structures

Abstract:

Project 0-5574 “Curved Plate Girder Design for Safe and Economical Construction,” resulted in the development of two design tools, UT Lift and UT Bridge. UT Lift is a spreadsheet-based program for analyzing steel girders during lifting while UT Bridge is a three-dimensional finite element program for analyzing partially or fully-erected steel girders during construction. The implementation project introduced these software tools to the Austin and Houston districts through hands-on training sessions. Through interviews, emails, and phone correspondence, TxDOT engineers provided the developers with feedback on modifications to the user interface necessary to improve the application of the software to TxDOT bridges. Based upon recommendations from TxDOT engineers, the software was modified. Training modules were also developed as a part of the training sessions. These training modules are distributed with the software so that new users can familiarize themselves with the software capabilities with well defined problems.

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5-5574-01

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US Transportation Collection

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