AASHTOWare Bridge Design and Rating Version 6.8 - New Features
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The following enhancements and additions have been added to AASHTOWare Bridge® Design and Rating in Version 6.8.0:
- LRFD design review and LFR and LRFR analyses of steel diaphragms and lateral bracing
- Distribution Factor-Line Girder analysis of floor system superstructures
- User Group enhancements
- LFR analysis of reinforced concrete multi-cell box beams
- LFR analysis of post-tensioned multi-cell box beams
- Ability to perform Line Girder analysis for dead load and/or live load only
- Ability to perform Line Girder and 3D analyses for specification checking only
- Strain compatibility modification for prestressed concrete beam capacity
- AASHTO LRFD Specification updates (7th Edition with 2016 Interim)
- AASHTO Manual for Bridge Evaluation Specification updates (2nd Edition with 2016 Interim)
- Reinforced concrete box culvert enhancements
- Culvert Wizard for creating culverts, culvert structure alternatives and assign culvert definitions to alternatives
- Ability to specify LRFD 6th Edition 2013 Interim for LRFD design review and LRFR analysis
- Ability to specify limit states for LRFD design review
- Ability to process only applicable limit states based on vehicle categories
- Ability to specify whether to consider haunch stiffness in the culvert FE model
- Ability to specify design vehicles in the Shear Stud Design Tool and Shear Stirrup Design Tool
- Ability to compute live load distribution factors based on the Guide Specifications for Distribution of Loads for Highway Bridges 1994
- Ability to specify whether to consider substructure skew in the section properties of substructure finite elements for integral with substructure concrete multi-cell box and reinforced concrete slab system superstructure definitions
- Ability to enforce unique name for the Bridge Workspace items in a folder
- Remove Uniform Load Contraflexure Points dead load case from the Analysis Results window
- Application Program Interface documentation updates