Hi,anybody has experience with steel through girder(bent) design? I have a Direct connetor bridge with 4 curved steel girders. And there is a steel girder go through these 4 girders and worked as an interior bent to provide support.
The load is going to be pretty heavy, we want to used bolted...
We were thinking it is one-piece-U-beam because we thought it is a big U beam with diaphram inside the beam. It does looks like it but we will go with one-piece-box-beam now.
Thanks, guys!
Yes, We got the sub from an architect in Washington and the bridge is going to be constructed in Sadi Arabia.
I maybe missleading you guys. We discussed this issue again yesterday and we found some similar bridge details and calculation example from CALTRAN. It is a whole piece Box...
This is a project in Asia. Yes, it may be segmental post-tensioned beam. Width of roadway is 65' which means 2 lanes on both direction.
We are in the preliminary design stage, so some information are not clear enough or not decided yet. We do have a senior engineer experienced similar bridges...
We recently got a bridge and archtect prefer to design a one-beam-bridge Which means the bridge cross-section is a big U-beam supporting deck. There are also some diaphrams inside of u shape beam.
Anybody get an idea which software could design it? Or where I could find useful information...
