The Tutorial section consists of tutorial sessions for Precast/Prestressed Girder. These tutorials are designed to familiarize you with the capabilities of the program through a "hands-on" approach.
Each tutorial takes you through an entire design session, screen-by-screen, for AASHTO Standard and LRFD design codes. To assist you in completing the tutorials, we have included the output generated from each tutorial. Upon completing these tutorials, you should be familiar with most of the features in Precast/Prestressed Girder. This section includes five tutorials, as follows.
An extension of Tutorial 1 has been included in Appendix F, Refined Methods of Analysis for Distribution Factor Computation which illustrates the use of the refined methods of analysis option in Precast/Prestressed Girder.
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| Tutorial 1: Continuous 3-Span 72-inch Bulb Tee Girder Design (LFD) (U.S. Units) |
- How to complete a draped strand pattern design.
- How to display graphs of moments, shears, and stresses.
- How to save a job data.
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| Tutorial 1A: Load Rating of Three Span Bridge (U.S. Units) (LFD) |
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| Tutorial 2: Simple Span Double Tee Design (LFD) (U.S. Units) |
- How to load data from disk.
- How to use debond constraints.
- How to complete straight strand pattern design with debonding/shielding.
- How to switch to metric units. (Note that the output is in metric units.)
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| Tutorial 3: Continuous 2-Span Prestressed Spread Box Beam (LFD) (U.S. Units) |
- How to input a pedestrian/sidewalk load.
- How to modify beam section libraries.
- How to transform section properties.
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| Tutorial 4: Continuous 3-Span Bridge with NU1600 Girders (LRFD) (Metric Units) |
- How to complete a project entry for multi-span bridge design.
- How to input a strand pattern manually.
- How to view design results.
- How to generate display graphs of moments, shears, and stresses.
- How to save project data for further use.
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| Tutorial 5: Simple Span Adjacent Box Beam Design (LRFD) (U.S. Units) |
- How to complete a project entry for a simple-span bridge design.
- How to perform a straight strand pattern auto-design with debonding/shielding.
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| Tutorial 6: Load Rating of Simple Span Bridge (U.S. Units) (LRFD) |
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| Tutorial 7: Continuous 3 - Span flared Bridge (LRFD) (U.S. Units) |
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