LUSAS e-News 15 June 2009

Assuring Bridge Safety and Serviceability Scanning Tour (UK)

LUSAS was pleased to be asked to organize and host Day 3 of the recent Assuring Bridge Safety and Serviceability (ABSS) International Scanning Tour to the United Kingdom. This was held at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London on 12th June 2009 and featured presentations from LUSAS, the UK’s Highways Agency, from consultant Atkins, and software supplier Bestech Systems.

The purpose of this international scanning tour was to identify best practices and processes for consideration by U.S. engineers to put these approaches into practice in the U.S. The scan focused on the following areas:

  • Safety and Serviceability - Design and Construction
  • Safety and Serviceability - Operations
  • Refined Analysis - Design, Construction, and Operations

The meeting on Day 3 of the UK tour provided the United States ABSS delegation with a good overview of the background to, and developments, benefits, trends and real-life applications of state-of-the-art software for analysing and designing bridges in the UK with particular respect to the forthcoming compulsory use of Eurocodes for bridge design throughout the European region.

Presentations included:


  • Overview of software use for bridges in the UK - developments and trends
Terry Cakebread, 
LUSAS VP North America

  • Overview of HA input to the analysis of bridges through the technical approval process
Colin George,
Senior Structural Engineer, 
Highways Agency

  • The role of design and analysis software in assuring bridge safety and serviceability 
Barry Skinner, 
Managing Director, 
Bestech Systems Ltd 

  • Testing and validation of bridge design and analysis software - one suppliers perspective
Barry Skinner,
Managing Director, 
Bestech Systems Ltd.

  • A Consultants view: Eurocodes and software application 
Rachel Jones, 
Atkins

  • Detailed software analysis using LUSAS Bridge
Julian Moses, LUSAS Support Engineer

LUSAS Bridge

Bridge engineering analysis software with an unrivalled range of analysis facilities for linear static, fundamental frequency, seismic, dynamic, large deflection, staged construction, creep, prestress, post tensioning and fatigue analysis. 

LUSAS Bridge software is used for all types of bridge design, analysis and assessment from simple grillages through to complex cable stayed and suspension structures

LUSAS Bridge is available in 3 product versions:

LUSAS Bridge LT / LUSAS Bridge / LUSAS Bridge plus


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