adelfam
2010-02-26, 07:11 PM
I am bridge engineer and very new to Robot.
In a composite bridge of concrete slab on steel baems; the first stage we load the naked beam with the wet concrete and in stage two we consider the bridge as composite and load with other loads including live loads. I wonder how do I go about modeling this multi-stage structure and automatically accumulate stresses from stage to stage considering the stresses at a point in the beam are built using section that are naked section in the initial stage and a composite section in next stages. I want to avoid - of course - manually combining the resposnse and check resistance by solving many problems.
In a composite bridge of concrete slab on steel baems; the first stage we load the naked beam with the wet concrete and in stage two we consider the bridge as composite and load with other loads including live loads. I wonder how do I go about modeling this multi-stage structure and automatically accumulate stresses from stage to stage considering the stresses at a point in the beam are built using section that are naked section in the initial stage and a composite section in next stages. I want to avoid - of course - manually combining the resposnse and check resistance by solving many problems.