Software Bridge Analysis Design
The Illinois DOT (IDOT) must find a safe route for trucks traveling in the state of Illinois and issue an oversize/overweight (OS/OW) permit for trucks carrying large loads. With slow, manual permitting processes, IDOT sought to update and automate its permitting system. IDOT implemented the...
Compared to other bridges, pedestrian bridges have it easy. After all, people are nowhere near as heavy as motor vehicles, tractor-trailers or trains. Because pedestrian bridges are built to bear smaller, lighter loads, architects and engineers are able to achieve an altogether different vision—...
Forth Bridge Queensferry Crossing under construction.
The Queensferry Crossing near Edinburgh, Scotland, is the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world at more than 8,500 ft. It is one of the largest infrastructure projects in Europe, and it benefited from advanced reinforcement planning in 3D provided by the engineers from Leonhardt, Andrä und...
With Allplan Engineering, 2018 engineers can conveniently generate a 3D model of the reinforcement of double-curved supporting structures with varying cross-sections.
With an arched span of 869 ft, a superstructure length of 1,369 ft and a height of 772 ft above the valley floor, the Tamina Bridge—planned by the engineering office Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner (LAP)—is the largest arched bridge in Switzerland. LAP used Allplan Engineering to create the structural...
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November 13, 2008
Citizens in the Louisville metropolitan area have a virtual bird’s-eye view of road plans for the Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project. The megaproject, currently the third-largest federally funded transportation project in the country, has taken unprecedented steps to communicate...
