Beginning Video 1 - Design a TxDOT I-Girder Using PGSuper

By Pickings - Posted on March 03, 2009
Target User Level: 
Beginner
PGsuper Version: 
2.1
Duration: 
Narrated: 38 Min

New Users Start Here!! Learn the steps required to use PGSuper in a production engineering environment. In this narrated tutorial, Richard Pickings provides an introduction to using PGSuper to design a precast I-girder in a real TxDOT bridge.

The TxDOT Bridge Layout plan and Span Details for the example bridge used in this tutorial can be downloaded here: Red Mud Creek Layout.pdf, Red Mud Creek Span.pdf

This session explores:

  • Configuring PGSuper's Program Settings
  • Basic Bridge and Girder Editing
  • Report Generation
  • User-Defined Loads
  • AutoCalc Mode
  • Using Library Entries
  • Viewing Graphical Results

Red Mud Creek

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