- Automatically generates the required loadsteps for one or more vehicles moving throughout the bridge deck taking into account:
- Vehicle type: Rigid or flexible (vehicle which adapts to the path -trains-).
- Number of vehicles crossing the bridge simultaneously. The vehicles can be of different types (different number of wheels, axis, weight, etc).
- Vertical and horizontal loads (starting and breaking loads).
- Data base of standard design codes vehicle loads (Caltrans, AASHTO, High-speed trains, etc.) and possibility of defining any generic vehicle with its corresponding load pattern.
- Loads are automatically combined during postprocessing using the smart combination tool of CivilFEM.
