Bridge Engineering Automated Vehicle Application





1. Introduction

The general philosophy governing the design of bridges is that, subject to a set of loading

rules and constraints, the worst effects due to load application should be established and

designed against.

The process of load application can be complex as governing rules can impose interdependant

parameters such as loaded length on a lane, lane factors and load intensity. To obtain the maximum

design effects, Engineers have to try many loading situations on a trial and error basis.

This leads to the generation of many live load application instances and a large volume of

output data that has to be combined with dead load effects as well.

In view of the above, a computer program has been developed to minimise the load

application process while complying with national code requirements.

Users can avoid the trial and error approach and eliminate any possible errors arising from

inaccuracies associated with it.


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