Civil Engineering Softwares

PENTAGON-Bridge
A design software for all types of bridge design from simple grillages to complex cable stayed and suspension bridges
Location: http://www.femsoft.com/daeyjung/frpen/downpbr.html
Operating System: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP

West Point Bridge Designer 2002
Official software used to enter the 2002 West Point Bridge Design Contest. With tools to model, test, and optimize a steel highway bridge, based on realistic specifications, constraints, and performance criteria.
Location: http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/downld2002.htm
Operating System: Windows 95 or better

NONLIN
A Microsoft Windows based application for the dynamic analysis of single degree of freedom structural systems. Developed at FEMA.
Location: http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/nonlin.htm
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 3.0 or higher

Concrete Box Girder Section Properties
A computer program used to calculates section properties of a symmetric concrete box girder cross section. Developed by Bridge Automation.
Location: http://www.bridgeautomation.com/freesoftware/box_section/conc_box_prop.htm

Operating System: Windows

BridgeLCC
User-friendly life-cycle costing software developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to help bridge engineers assess the cost effectiveness of new, alternative construction materials.
Location: http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/bridgelcc/welcome.html
Operating System: Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/XP

RING
A rapid mechanism analysis tool for masonry arch bridges developed at University of Sheffield (UK).
Location: http://www.shef.ac.uk/ring/
Operating System: Windows

Barlist
Reinforcing steel quantity estimating tool developed at the Washington State DOT.
Location: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/software/index.cfm?fuseaction=download&software_id=45
Operating System: Winindows 95/98/NT

PGSuper
Prestressed Girder SUPERstructure design and analysis software developed at the Washington State DOT.
Location: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/software/index.cfm?fuseaction=download&software_id=47
Operating System: Winindows 95/98/NT

QConBridge
HL93 Live Load Analysis tool for continuous bridge structures developed at the Washinton State DOT.
Location: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/software/index.cfm?fuseaction=download&software_id=48
Operating System: Winindows 95/98/NT

RMCalc
A Windows-based software program to compute restraint moments in precast prestressed concrete girder bridges constructed with continuous spans. Developed by Michael D. McDonagh, P.E..
Location: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/software/index.cfm?fuseaction=download&software_id=60
Operating System: Windows

BridgeSight Shear Designer
AASHTO LRFD Shear Design Aid for Reinforced Concrete Beams
Location: http://www.bridgesite.com/sheardesigner.htm
Operating System: Windows

BEES 3.0
The BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) software measures the environmental performance of building products by using the life-cycle assessment approach specified in ISO 14000 standards.
Location: http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/oae/software/bees.html

Operating System: Windows

HAZUS
Hazards U.S., a natural hazard loss estimation methodology developed by FEMA under contract with the National Institute of Building Sciences.
Location: http://www.fema.gov/hazus/index.shtm
Operating System: officially certified to run on the Windows 2000 platform

Resurfacing Safety Resource Allocation Program (RSRAP)
Developed by Midwest Research Institute (MRI) in Project 3-56 of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), the program allows highway agencies to implement a process that selects a program of safety improvements, to be made in conjunction with resurfacing projects, that maximizes traffic safety and operational benefits resulting from the program.
Location: http://www.rsrap.org/
Operating System: Windows