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Within the detailed design part of
Sam there are several components
covering the design of
reinforced concrete sections and the capacity of any section and
the design of various types of bridge beam
(or girder).
The beam design
modules operate best if their
tables of moment, shear and axial force
are derived from the analysis modules,
as this saves much time and labour
compared to entering them by hand or
cutting and pasting from spreadsheets.
For AASHTO LRFD, generating these
spreadsheets is exceptionally
complicated, so Sam has a double
benefit here. The types of bridge
girder handled are:
- Steel concrete composite bridge beams
- Precast pretensioned concrete bridge beams
- Reinforced concrete bridge beams
Within the
analysis part of Sam there is a
wide range of capabilities from line
beams through offset grillages to
finite elements, including stage
construction, bridge dynamics and
bridge traffic load optimisation.
The analysis modules are all optimised
for bridge deck analysis which gives
superb useability for bridge engineers.
They operate best if their input data
is derived from the section and beam
modules, since that way all the section
properties and self weights are already
known and this saves much time and
effort.
Sam modules are available
for AASHTO LRFD, Eurocodes, BS5400 & UK
DMRB, AS5100 and Transit NZ where appropriate.
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