BRIGADE/Standard

Product Description

BRIGADE/Standard offers an intuitive and highly productive user-interface for fast and accessible modelling of the most common bridge structures.

This includes a wide variety of bridge types such as:

• Slab decks
• Slab/Beam decks
• Box girder bridges
• Integral bridges

All of which easily can be modeled in complex geometrical variations, for example skewed and curved bridge superstructures.

The modeling concept is based on parametric definitions of stake-out lines, support lines and cross-sectional dimensions of the superstructure and the substructure.

The various loads that affect the bridge – dead load, earth pressure, support yielding, prestress, traffic loads, temperature, wind loads and so on – can be easily generated and combined. An integrated library provides predefined loads and load combination rules in accordance with a wide range of design codes.

One of BRIGADE/Standards major advantageous compared to similar products on the market is the accurate representation of live loads acting on the bridge structure where the system response is calculated into proper influence surfaces.

BRIGADE/Standard includes state-of-the-art integrated ABAQUS solver technology guaranteeing high performance and the most accurate results available on the market.