Good Evening!
I am wondering if anyone familiar with CSI bridge is familiar with 'Per Lane' live load responses from the program, specifically for bearings/links? This is the first time in CSI that I have tried to obtain this kind of response, so I am not sure if there is some way to obtain...
BridgeSmith, we have tried both the methods you mentioned to try and reduce the forces in the members and connection, yet nothing has made a significant enough impact to be beneficial. We also don't really have the option to leave out diaphragms in the middle of the bridge where these very high...
I agree with human909 that designing/checking the end connections for both pinned and fixed end conditions would be conservative and essentially envelope the problem. The problem here is that the magnitude of the fixed end moments we are seeing are relatively high, and will cause a significant...
