Substructure Help

Permit Vehicle Side by Side

Program allows to have permit vehicle placed side by side with other regular trucks. In library user can specify if a live load is a permit vehicle or not. When such a truck is included for load generation along with other trucks which are not permit, program will consider placement of permit truck side by side with regular trucks. For such generation, however, the width of the trucks included should be same. After determining the transverse positions, program will try to first determine the critical loads as explained earlier for all regular trucks. After that, program will try placing one permit truck with all other regular trucks. It will generate additional load cases for such permit + regular trucks loaded. Live load details provide specific information as what truck positions are controlling for generated loads.