Precast/Prestressed Girder Help

Continuous 2-Span Prestressed Spread Box Beam Design (U.S. Units) (LFD)

This tutorial takes you through a Precast/Prestressed Girder design, step-by-step, demonstrating how to add a beam section to the library, and how to access the prestressing tendon and live load libraries. It also illustrates how to input a pedestrian/sidewalk load and use transformed section properties. Tutorial 3 also introduces the section drawing editor used to compute beam section properties. In this tutorial, you will be designing beam 2 of span 1 for the bridge shown in the following figures.

Figure 1 Elevation View

Figure 2 Span Data

Figure 3 Cross-Section

Figure 4 Topping Data