Implementation of straight and curved steel girder erection design tools construction : summary.
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2010-11-05
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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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