Structural engineering FEA software RFEM is the basis of a modular software system. RFEM is used to define structures, materials, and loads for planar and spatial structural systems consisting of plates, walls, shells and members. The program also allows you to create combined structures as well as model solid and contact elements.
Structural frame analysis and design software RSTAB contains a similar range of functions as RFEM, with special attention to beam, frame and truss structures. Therefore, it is very easy to use and for many years it has been the best choice for structural analysis.
Depending on the material used in bridge constructions, you can find more useful add-on modules for structural analysis and design under the Steel Structures, Concrete Structures and Timber Structures industries.
Other useful add-on modules:
The Müngsten Viaduct, completed in 1897, ranks among the most important buildings in steel bridge construction in the world today.
With a height of 107 m over the Wupper River, it is Germany's highest railway bridge.
A glass pedestrian bridge with a length of 30 m connects the St. Michael hospital with the research center Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute.
The supporting structure consists of several oval steel rings which are twisted together.
The S‑shaped pedestrian and cycling bridge across the Neckar river in Germany, has a total length of 96.30 m and a width of 3.00 m.
Both foreland areas are bent in the ground plan and have a radius of approximately 65.25 m.
One of the world's longest timber bridges is in Anaklia, a climatic spa town on the Eastern shore of the Black Sea.
The bridge with a length of more than 500 m connects the hotel and port area with a coastal area used for tourism.
A very special project was carried out in Pitigala, Sri Lanka in 2013. A suspension bridge was designed, calculated and built by 30 students of the university team "Engineers Without Borders".
The 30-meter-long bridge across the Bentara river with was constructed with pure man power.
Since 2013, a new S‑shaped pylon bridge meanders across the Agger river near Lohmar, a town in West Germany.
Due to its curving shape, the bridge reflecting the course of the river is perfectly integrated into the landscape.
Janson Bridging in Hank, the Netherlands, produces temporary, emergency and permanent bridges for civil, industrial and military use.
All these bridges consist of modules with bridge spans ranging from 2 to 40 elements that can be joined using couplings.
Skywalk Allgäu is a path leading through the treetops of the Allgäu Alps in Southern Germany.
The steel and timber structure of the path about 1,000 m above sea level consists of cable-stayed and suspension bridge constructions.
Moving loads can be easily generated with RF‑MOVE Surfaces. A library is available with load models as defined in the Eurocode 1, Part 2. The input of step size, offsets at start and end, and the distance to a reference line makes it possible for the user to generate user‑defined load models and also influence the number of generated load cases. RF‑MOVE Surfaces generates load cases and optional also a result combination as envelope of all results.
If you select the combinatorics according to EN 1990 + EN 1991‑2 and define a load case in the action category gr1a, gr2, or gr5, you have to additionally define in the program which load model should be taken as a basis for the load case. This information is crucial for defining combination rules for automatic combinatorics according to EN 1990 + EN 1991‑2. In the gr1a category, you can select TS (LM1), UDL (LM1) or pedestrian and cycle track, for example. TS (LM1) is preset by default. In the gr2 category, it is possible to select breaking and acceleration forces or centrifugal forces as a specification.
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Pylon bridge across Agger river in Lohmar, Germany | © www.schaffitzel-miebach.com
Suspension bridge in Pitigala, Sri Lanka | © www.ewb-karlsruhe.de
Arched bridge | © Jana Vlachova, CTU Prague, Czech Republic
Temporary bridges | © www.jansonbridging.com
Pylon bridge "Walsersteg" across Loisach river | © www.ib-buxbaum.de
Railway bridge | © Radoslav Dimitrov, TU Dresden, Germany
Shutter Street Bridge in Toronto, Canada | © josef-gartner.permasteelisagroup.com
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Structural engineering software for finite element analysis (FEA) of planar and spatial structural systems consisting of plates, walls, shells, members (beams), solids and contact elements
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The structural engineering software for design of frame, beam and truss structures, performing linear and nonlinear calculations of internal forces, deformations, and support reactions
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Design of reinforced concrete members and surfaces (plates, walls, planar structures, shells)
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Linear and nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete members with reinforcement concept
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Stress analysis of steel surfaces and members
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Design of steel members according to Eurocode 3
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Timber design according to Eurocode 5, SIA 265 and/or DIN 1052
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Consideration of construction stages during a building phase
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Generation of load cases from moving loads for members and sets of members
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Generation of load cases from moving loads for surfaces
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Generation of influence lines and surfaces due to constant internal forces
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