What Is Bridge Design Software?

Highway design software refers to highway computer-aided design software system (CAD). There are two types of road and bridge computer-aided design software systems. The major international road auxiliary design softwares are: CARD / 1, Bentley, Civil3D. Domestic road auxiliary design software mainly includes HintCAD, Route Master, EICAD, Haiti and so on.

Highway design software

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Highway design software refers to highway computer-aided design software system (CAD). There are two types of road and bridge computer-aided design software systems. The major international road auxiliary design softwares are: CARD / 1, Bentley, Civil3D. Domestic road

1. CARD / 1 -Contains advanced road design ideas, concepts and technologies to improve the design quality and competitiveness of design units

The world's first highway was built by Germany before World War II, and Germany's civil design technology is in the leading position in the world. In addition to advanced, thoughtful and sophisticated road design in Germany, it also places great emphasis on environmental protection, safety, and humanity. A lot of design ideas, design concepts and functions in China's road design technology are brought in by CARD / 1. They are the benchmark for Chinese software development, such as: curve alignment, design based on digital and analog, multi-axis design at one time, Horizontal and vertical linkage design, shallow dish side ditch, three-dimensional driving simulation, line-of-sight analysis, safety evaluation, automatic plane wiring, automatic profile fitting, turning radius, point cloud, etc., were introduced to China due to CARD / 1 , And gradually applied in the country.

So far, CARD / 1 provides technologies such as multi-axis design, point cloud data use, turning radius, magnetic levitation design, railway curved seamless turnout design, etc. which are still unique and commercialized in the world.

2. CARD / 1 - powerful, professional design, flexible use

CARD / 1 is the language of engineers, adhering to the rigorous and fine quality of Germans, the most powerful functions, the most professional design, and the most flexible use, allowing you to express your design freely. Only you can't think of it, no CARD / 1 can't do it. The more difficult the design part, the more you can take advantage of CARD / 1. Are you struggling with design tools to achieve your perfect design solution? Are you still in the loop to change the picture all day long, and go smoothly without knowing it? Now CARD / 1 will let you put on a strong leg in the journey of design, and you will never lose it. Update your gear and keep up with the times!

1) Powerful functions: CARD / 1 integrates functions such as interchanges, earth and stone allocation, and safety evaluation in addition to conventional functions such as horizontal and vertical design of the route. The latest version also adds functions such as slope protection, retaining walls, and drainage. No design software can integrate these functions into one. CARD / 1 powerful secondary development platform and open source code can help you solve any complex design.

2) Design specialty: Accept data from all sources (existing profile ground lines, design lines; total station data; aerial survey data; GPS data; existing map scan data; laser survey data; other software data), focus on In design, timely inspection, design parameters can be freely input, without any restrictions such as country and regional differences, can complete any cross-section, monolithic, separate, stepped subgrade, intercepting gutters and retaining walls and other complex special Designed with accurate design and no proportional limit for drawing, which can meet the individual needs of users, and easily prepare international bidding documents. For example, Shanghai Maglev and F1 race track use CARD / 1

Abroad

There are more than a dozen similar software companies in Germany. After more than 20 years of hardships and hardships, there are only two of them, one of which is CARD / 1. After occupying the European market, CARD / 1 made its debut in the United States in 2008, winning gratifying results and becoming AUTODESK's most powerful competitor in the world.

The world's first German Emsland magnetic levitation test line was designed with CARD / 1; after the merger of East and West, 100% of the railway design was designed with CARD / 1; 95% of the highway was designed with CARD / 1; there are many classic projects They are all designed with CARD / 1.

2. In China

CARD / 1 in China has also gained recognition and praise from customers. At present, the customers include all 5 railway survey and design institutes directly under the Ministry of Railways, most of the design institutes directly under the Ministry of Transport, and provincial highway design institutes. The official sales cover 25 provinces and cities, with nearly 100 formal customers and more than 500 sets of genuine products. More than 1,500 units were installed and borrowed from highway design institutes, railway design institutes, surveying and mapping institutes, municipal institutes, and design companies, as well as Changan University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Beijing University of Technology, and Shijiazhuang Railway Institute. Colleges are used for teaching.

The world's first commercial maglev line (Shanghai to Pudong Airport) and the F1 racing track are designed with CARD / 1.

3. International Technology Exchange

With CARD / 1 as the link, CARD / 1 Chinese company has undertaken eight visits and technical exchange activities by key personnel of the organization's design unit, a total of about 80 people.

From 2004 to 2005, CARD / 1 Chinese company successfully assisted the German InWEnt training organization on behalf of the German government to complete a two-year free training for Chinese basic transportation construction engineers, introduced the planning, design, construction and successful cases of German basic transportation construction, participated in The trainers come from roads, railways, municipal design institute leaders, experts and engineers, with a total of more than 260 people.

1. At present, the common road auxiliary design software in China is mainly composed of latitude 3D road design system, route master, EICAD, Haiti and so on.

(1) Wetland road auxiliary design system (HintCAD) is a large-scale professional CAD software for the design of interchanges and interchanges. This system was developed by CCCC First Highway Survey, Design and Research Institute combined with multiple engineering practices. Adhering to the nearly half a century of highway survey and design experience of the Academy, Latitude Land System draws on the expertise of professional software at home and abroad and introduces new ideas. It is the crystallization of advanced engineering design concepts and cutting-edge computer software technology. The system has strong professionalism, is closely integrated with actual engineering design, conforms to the habits of Chinese people, and is practical and flexible. The system uses BjectARX and Visual C ++ programming, supports AutoCAD R2000 / R2002 / R2004 / R2005 / R2006 platform Windows9X / NT / 2000 / XP / VISTA and other operating systems. The main functions of the system include: highway route design, interchange design, 3D digital ground model Applications, full three-dimensional modeling of highways (3DRoad), etc. are applicable to the geometric design of highways, highways, interchanges, urban roads and level crossings of high-speed, first-level, second-level, third-level and fourth-level highways. The system also provides standard version, professional version, digital template version and network version software, users can choose freely according to different needs. The latitude system uses real-time dragging technology to enable users to dynamically and interactively complete the horizontal (longitudinal, horizontal) design, drawing, and presentation of highway routes on the computer. In terms of interchange design, the system is designed with a unique intersection curve. It is famous for its methods, intelligent wiring of starting and ending points, and flexible batch processing. The latest digital template not only supports domestic routine route and interchange design based on field survey data, but also can use three-dimensional electronic topographic maps to build three-dimensional digital models and directly obtain accurate vertical and transverse ground line data for further Systematic design of horizontal, vertical, and horizontal; while eliminating the need for field surveys and shortening the design cycle, it also makes it easier and faster to select a large range of route solutions. It broke the monopoly formed by foreign software in the field of digital analog applications in the domestic highway industry.

(2) The Haiti Highway Optimization Design System (Hard) is one of Haiti s most glorious highway design software. Its users are located in 30 provinces and municipalities across the country. In the past 10 years, more than 1,000 Haitian users across the country have applied the Hard system to complete dozens of 10,000 kilometers of highway design, construction completed roads all over the country. Hard system has become the first choice for domestic design companies when purchasing software, and it is an indispensable software tool for design engineers. In the past 10 years, Haiti has actively absorbed the suggestions of users. The system's functions have continued to be strong. The development of specific problems has made the Hard system take care of very small problems in the design. The development of details is an important sign of the success of the Hard system. The degree of perfection of a system. The continuous strength of the Hard system completely depends on thousands of opinions and suggestions provided by more than 1,000 users throughout the country in the process of use. These valuable opinions and suggestions are the most solid cornerstones to support the continuous improvement of the Hard system. Special thanks to the Yunnan Provincial Highway Design Institute, Kunming Guoquan Highway Software Studio, Henan Provincial Transportation Design Institute, Chongqing Transportation Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport, Guangxi Transportation Research Institute, Xinjiang Transportation Research Institute, Liaoning Transportation Institute, and Tianjin Railway Ministry. Institute, Kunming Design Institute of State Power Corporation, Chengdu Design Institute of State Power Corporation, Fuzhou Municipal Design and Research Institute, etc ... Brother companies engaged in highway design in various industries strongly support and love. Haitian software was developed by engineers for their use! The Hard system is the first highway design system in China to introduce digital ground model (DTM) technology. It has truly realized 3D design and has always maintained a leading position in 3D design. We can consider as much as possible in the design process. The problem of optimization design makes the level of domestic design software reach an unprecedented level. The development of the Hard system fully complies with the design habits and drawing standards of Chinese engineering designers, and in the process of upgrading, it uses the design thinking and methods of similar foreign software to greatly reduce the gap between domestic highway design software and foreign software. The Hard system Provide high-tech solutions for China's highway construction!

(3) Route Master, Route Master 2008 Excellent domestic road auxiliary design system. The main functions and characteristics of Route Master Roadmaster 2002 system is an advanced highway engineering auxiliary design software based on AUTOCAD R14 / 2000/2002 platform. By using it, designers can get rid of heavy drawing and numerical calculations, and complete design tasks efficiently and accurately. The new version of the route master system is divided into three parts: the route design part; the digital ground model part; the route 3D animation part. These three parts of the function can be used independently or in conjunction with each other, which can be suitable for the preliminary design of various grades of roads and the application of the design phase of the construction drawing. At the end of April, the fourth part of the function will be introduced, the interchange design part.

(4) EICAD, integrated interactive road and interchange design software-EICAD ", which is mainly used for the design of highways, urban roads, and interchanges at various stages. Since its launch in October 2002, it has hundreds of users and has received The praise of the majority of users. EICAD includes: route version and interchange version to meet the different design needs of users. The route version includes: road plan, profile and cross-section design, as well as design, calculation and chart output functions such as earth and stone allocation. .In the interchange version, it includes the commands for interchange design, including: building block method, basic model method, extended model method, and other auxiliary design commands. The EICAD system mainly includes: graphic design, longitudinal section and cross section design. The output of this system can be directly used by "Road and Bridge 3D Modeling Program-3Droad" to build a 3D model of road and bridge.

2. At present, the common bridge auxiliary design software in China is mainly composed of bridge doctors, bridge masters, bridge masters, and so on.

(1) The bridge doctoral system is a comprehensive bridge structure design and construction calculation system that integrates visual data processing, database management, structural analysis, printing and assistance. The compilation of the system is in full accordance with the bridge design and construction process. It is closely combined with the bridge design specifications, fully uses modern computer technology, and fully conforms to the habits of designers. The calculation of the structure is more complicated than simple, taking into account the complex composition and construction of various structures, which is more convenient to use and more accurate. At the same time, a lot of work has been done on the fault tolerance of data input, so that users will not Temporary mistakes cause unnecessary work loss.

This system is pinned on the Windows platform, making full use of the characteristics of the Windows platform: a consistent user interface, a multi-tasking system, a mouse click and powerful device support features. In addition, the Dr.Bridge system abandoned the old programming ideas and switched to object-oriented programming, which greatly enhanced user intervention in the system, facilitated the handling of various complex situations, and resolved the computer's rigidity. At the same time, the system is based on the MFC basic class library, which greatly reduces the system's dependence on hardware and facilitates the migration and upgrade of 64-bit operating systems in the future. Since its launch to the market in 1995, various bridges such as reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete continuous beams, rigid frames, continuous arches, truss beams, cable-stayed bridges have been designed and calculated. In the design process, the characteristics of strong program practicality, good operability, and high degree of automation were fully utilized, which played a good role in improving the bridge design ability. During the design and application process, through practical verification and comparison with other software, Dr. Bridge has been improved and expanded, and has been further stabilized. This revision is mainly based on JTG D60-2004 General Code for Design of Highway Bridges and Culverts and JTG D62-2004 Supplementary Code for Design of Highway Reinforced Concrete and Prestressed Concrete Bridges and Culverts. The pre-processing and post-processing parts of the program have been greatly improved on the basis of the original. Each expanded function block embodies the painstaking efforts of the development team over the years. All are carefully summarized, researched and carefully designed and finally At the same time, it is closely combined with the bridge engineering design practice, with the help of mechanics and computer technology, to solve the difficult data processing problems encountered by users in the bridge engineering design process, so that users can focus on solving the rationality of bridge structures. Saving data processing time and assisting user design are the two main features of this bridge doctoral upgrade.

(2), "Computer Aided Design System for Highway Bridges" Bridge is mainly used for the preliminary design of highway bridges and the design of construction drawings, which conforms to the current technical standards and specifications for highway survey and design in China and can be directly put into production and application. The user only needs to input some necessary parameters for the bridge structure, and the computer can automatically complete the design, calculation, check calculation and review of the lower structure of the bridge, generate a detailed calculation book, and draw a bridge scheme diagram and detailed construction design drawings, and calculate the details of the reinforcement. And quantity of materials. Compare and select multiple schemes for bridges and optimize the design to reduce project cost. Bridgelink CAD consists of four parts: structural calculation module, auxiliary calculation module, structural drawing module, and query specification form.

(3) Bridge Master. The bridge master focused on solving the design, drawing, calculation, and engineering statistics of conventional large, medium, and small bridges. The main functions are introduced as follows: 1. It can complete the simple support structure on any curve, the continuous structure of the bridge deck, and the simple support first. Post-continuous structure, continuous rigid frame bridge design. 2. Supports multiple complex bridges composed of different superstructure forms, which can handle monolithic roadbeds, separated roadbeds, or single-span road bridges of low-grade highways; can handle left and right half roadbeds with different widths, different spans, and different structures. Bridge with the wrong pier. 3. It is possible to realize the half-width design of double-span bridges, double elevations and double-span bridges, and to establish a bridge layout diagram, which can realize the standard span control at the center of the half-span and the minimum chord length at the design line. Different types, 4. The superstructures that can be processed are solid slabs, hollow slabs, T beams, small box beams and cast-in-place box beams; the substructure abutment types include column platforms, light platforms, ribbed platforms, U platforms And monolithic platforms, bridge pier types include column pier, light pier, solid pier, hollow pier, thin-wall pier, thin-wall hollow pier, and some pier platforms also provide different structural forms.