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Design code facilities

Two software options allow for design checking of members in steel and reinforced concrete frames.

Steel Frame Design

The Steel Frame Design software option provides full details of all calculations made, referencing all relevant clauses and equations from a design code - giving a step-by-step calculation transparency normally only found in simple frame analysis software. 

Design codes supported include:

  • AASHTO LRFD 7th Edition (2014)
  • AASHTO LRFD 8th Edition (2017)
  • ANSI / AISC-360 (2016)
  • AS 4100-1998 Steel Structures (Australia)
  • BS5400-3 2000
  • CSA S6-14 Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code
  • EN1993-1-1: 2005+A1:2014
  • EN1993-2: 2006
  • GB50017-2017

with more being added with each release.

  • Produce a tabular summary of design check results for selected members and loadcases. Save results for use with Microsoft Excel or save to a text format.
  • Add results to a model report, and each time the report is generated design summary data will be updated to match the current state of the model.

  • Generate formatted member reports to investigate the design calculations carried out for particular members. These show all calculations made and reference clauses and equations from the code.
  • Create individual steel member design reports and optionally append to a main model report.
  • Define model report templates to speed reproduction of similar content.


RC Frame Design

Use the RC Frame Design software option to carry out checking of reinforced concrete members subject to bending and axial force at Ultimate Limit State (ULS) and Serviceability limit states (SLS). Regular, arbitrary shaped, tapering and voided members are supported. Layers of reinforcement are defined for each cross-section along with how individual reinforcement arrangements apply over the lengths of lines representing concrete members.

  • View results as utilisation ratios on the model, or as a tabular summary that allows drilling-down into detailed results and creation of interaction diagrams for selected members and locations. Results can be added to a report.

Design codes supported:

  • AASHTO LRFD 8th LRFD Edition.
  • AS5100.5:2017
  • CSA S6-14
  • EN1992-1:2004 - EN 1992-1-1:2004 +A1 Eurocode 2
  • EN1992-2:2005 - EN1992-2: 2005 Eurocode 2
  • IRC:112-2011

with more being added with each release.


Composite Deck Design

The Composite Deck Design software option enables design checking of members / sections along composite bridge decks to AASHTO LRFD 8th Edition, or EN1994. For both, colour coded values easily indicate results that pass or fail.

  • For AASHTO LRFD 8th Ed., design check results are displayed in a summary format that allows drilling-down to view full details of the calculations made, referencing all relevant clauses and equations from the design code. Full details of the design checks can also be written to a model report, which updates automatially when it is requested.
  • For EN 1994, design calculations cover ULS bending, stress, shear and interaction; SLS stress, web breathing and cracking, and fatigue checks for main members and connectors. Multiple sections with different properties and bolted connections can be considered. Detailed graphs and reports can be also be output, referencing appropriate clauses from the code.

See Composite Deck Design for more information.


Vehicle Load Optimisation

The LUSAS Vehicle Load Optimisation (VLO) software option extends the static and moving vehicle loading capabilities of LUSAS Bridge. It identifies critical highway vehicle and train (rail) design-code based loading patterns on bridges and applies these loading patterns to LUSAS models.


Pedestrian dynamics

Use the Pedestrian Moving Load Analysis facility to model dynamic effects associated with pedestrians moving across a structure to be modelled in accordance with a chosen design code, creating all the associated loadcases for further evaluation. 

It requires a pedestrian load definition (incorporating vertical pulsating and optional lateral and longitudinal effects) that may be moved at a constant speed, along a reference path, in a forward or reverse direction. Its use:

  • Simplifies and automates pedestrian load generation

  • Generates all loadcases to model the passage of pedestrian groups

  • Provides results that can be printed, exported to spreadsheets, or graphed 

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Pedestrian Load Wizard


RC slab / wall design

Use the LUSAS RC slab / wall design facility to analyse reinforced concrete slabs and walls, without prestressing, modelled using plate or shell elements. Obtain contour plots and values that indicate flexural reinforcement requirements at Ultimate Limit State (ULS), and calculate design crack widths at Serviceability Limit State (SLS) for those design codes that support this. Codes currently supported include:

  • AASHTO LRFD 7th, 6th, 5th Editions
  • AS5100-5-2004, AS3600-2009
  • BS5400-4, BS8007:1987, BS8110-1:1997 & BS8110-2:1985, BS EN1992-2:2005/NA:2007, BS EN 1992-1-1:2004/NA:2005
  • CAN/CSA S6-06, S6.1-06
  • Eurocode EN1992-1-1 and EN1992-2
  • GB 50010-2010
  • IRC: 112-2011, IRS: CBC-1997
  • SS CP65: Part 1 and 2: 1999, SS EN1992-1-1/NA 2008 Amd 1.


Prestress and post tensioning

Tendon forces are calculated in accordance with:

  • AASHTO LRFD 2nd Edition
  • AASHTO LRFD 5th to 7th Edition
  • BS5400-4:1990
  • CEB-FIP Model Code 1990
  • DD EN1992-1-1:1992 Eurocode 2
  • EN 1992-1-1:2004 Eurocode 2
  • fib Model Code 2010
  • JTG D62-2004
  • JTG 3362-2018

See Load types and combinations for more information.


Concrete creep and shrinkage

Concrete creep and shrinkage is calculated in accordance with:

  • AASHTO LRFD 7th Edition 
  • CEB-FIP Model Code 1990 
  • EN1992-1-1:2004 Eurocode 2
  • fib Model Code 2010
  • IRC:112-2011
  • JTG 3362-2018
  • User - allows user-defined parameters to be specified

Tendon properties

Tendon properties for which prestress calculations will include time dependent effects for any stage of construction include:

  • AASHTO LRFD 5th to 7th Edition
  • CEB-FIP Model Code 1990
  • EN 1992-1-1:2004 Eurocode
  • fib Model Code 2010
  • IRC:112-2011
  • JTG 3362-2018

Other codes are supported which exclude time dependent effects and only produce results for short term and long term losses.


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