Links
The following links are provided to a few web sites that have been found particularly useful or interesting
Associations
AASHTO American
Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
AISC
American Institute of Steel Construction
ASCE American
Society of Civil Engineers
ICE
Institution of Civil Engineers (UK)
IStructE Institution of Structural Engineers (UK)
NAFEMS
International Association for Finite Element Methods and Standards
UIC
International Union of Railways
Bridges
Bridges to Prosperity
Charity building suspension footbridges in remote regions of third world
countries. Fascinating reports of 65m span bridges being built in Ethiopia for
under $25k each
BridgeSite Bridge
related links
Bridgeweb.com
Online bridge magazine (UK based)
SC
Solutions Bridge Engineering Home Page Comprehensive site
provided for the Worldwide Bridge Engineering Community. This company also uses
ADINA FE software and has carried out analysis on many of the
major bridges
and structures in North America
Finite Element Analysis
Dermot Monaghan
Rated "No 1 FEA Site on the Internet" by
TenLinks.com
Dr Heck Consulting and Engineering
Interesting German site showing examples of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD),
Fluid Strucure Interaction (FSI), and heat transfer analyses
Eng-Tips FE Forum
Finite Element Analysis Engineering Forum
SC Solutions
Structural Engineering Project Gallery Examples of FE
analysis on major US bridges and structures using ADINA software
Official Documents
Design Manual for Roads and
Bridges Online access to UK Roads and Bridges Standards
Railway Group Standards
Online access to UK Railway Group Standards
Network Rail Standards Listing of UK Network Rail Standards
Software
ADINA We use
ADINA software for FE analysis.
Some interesting models are shown in their
Gallery and
Newsgroup.
The company was founded by Dr K J Bathe who is a Professor at MIT, he is one of
the leading world authorities in FE theory, and wrote "Finite
Element Procedures" widely considered to be amongst the top 3 or 4 books
available worldwide on FE theory
Integer SuperSTRESS
We use SuperSTRESS for frame and grillage analysis