midas Civil

Basic Training Manual

Single span composite precast beam

& deck bridge design
 Span Information

9m width

0.2m Uniform
Deck Thickness

5 spaces @ 1.5m

Bridge Specifications Loads

Span: 20m Self-weight of structural elements

Width: 9m Prestressing of tendons
Girders: 6TY11 precast girders Moving load: Dual carriageway with
HA & HB loading as per
(BD37/01 Standard load)

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 Material properties

1. Go to Material Properties
2. Click Add
2
3. Select Standard and DB:

3 4. Click Apply
Repeat 2 to 4 to add all the material properties
5. Click OK

Concrete Precast Girder: Concrete, EN04(RC), C50/60

Concrete Slab: Concrete, EN04(RC), C35/45
Cross Beam: Concrete, Select None as Standard
Input 0 as Weight Density
Steel Tendon: Steel, EN05(S), Y1860S7(12.9mm)

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 Section properties: Cross Beam

2
1. Go to Properties > Section > Section Properties
3 2. Go to DB/User
4
3. Select Solid Rectangle

4. Select User

5. Define the geometry for Interior Cross Beam:

H: 0.2 m
B: 1.0 m

5 6. Define the Offset as Center-Top

7. Click Apply

8. Define the geometry for Exterior Cross Beam

(Cross Beam_Ext1 & Cross Beam_Ext2)
H: 0.2 m
B: 0.5 m

9. Define the Offset as Left-Top & Right-Top

10. Click OK
6
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 Section properties: Precast girder

2
5
1. Go to Section Properties
2. Go to PSC
3. Select PSC-Value
6
7 4. Select DB… as Section Data
4
5. Select UK
6. Select UK-TY Type
7. Click Add
3
8. Input girder section for precast composite
girder: TY11
9. Click Apply

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 Section properties: Precast composite girder

2
7
1. Go to Section Properties

2. Go to Composite
3
3. Select Composite-PSC

4 4. Input Slab information:

Bc: 1.5 m
tc: 0.2 m
5 Hh: 0m

5. Click Import and import precast girder section

6. Click Select Material from DB

7. Define material for Slab and Girder

Slab: EN04(RC) and C35/45
6 Girder: EN04(RC) and C50/60

8. Define the Offset as Center-Top

9. Click OK

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 Creating Geometry: Precast composite girder

1
4

1. Go to Create Nodes

7 2. Create initial node for generation of girder

Coordinate: 0, 0, 0
Number of Times: 5
5 Distances(dx, dy, dz): 0, 1.5, 0
2
3. Click Apply

6 4. Go to Node/Element > Elements > Extrude

5. Select Extrude Type: Node > Line Element

3
6. Define Element Attribute
Element Type: Beam
Material: C50/60
Section: Precast composite

8 7. Select the generated nodes

8. Define Translation
dx, dy, dz: 1, 0, 0 m
Number of Times: 20
9
9. Click Apply

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 Creating Geometry: Cross Beam_1

1 6

1. Go to Create Elements

5 2. Select Material and Section Properties

7 3. Click Nodal Connectivity window

4. Click Start Node (1) of the first cross

beam

8 5. Click End Node(7) of the first cross

beam

6. Go to Extrude

7. Select Copy mode

2 8. Define Translation mode as Equal
Distance
4 dx, dy, dz: 1, 0, 0 m
Number of Times: 20
3 9. Click Apply

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 Creating Geometry: Cross Beam_2

Drag & Drop

Drag &
Drop

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 Creating Structure Group

Drag &
Drop

1. Go to Group Tree menu

2. Create structure group for Cross Beam, Girders

and Boundary Nodes

3. Select corresponding elements and assign it using

Drag and Drop feature

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 Boundary Condition

Dx, Dz Only
Dz
2
3
Dy, Dz
1. Go to Define Support
4
2. Select constraint components

3. Select nodes to apply

4. Click Apply

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 Load: Self Weight

1 5 6
2
1

1. Go to Static Loads

2. Click Static Load Cases

3
3. Create Load Cases and Click Add
6 Self Weight: Dead Load (D)
Surfacing: Dead Load (D)
Barriers: Dead Load (D)
Prestress: Prestress (PS)

4. Click Close

5. Go to Self Weight

6. Select Self Weight Load Case

7. Enter Self Weight Factor -1 for Z direction

7
8. Click Add

9. Click Close

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 Load: Superimposed Dead Load

6 1

Surfacing(120 mm thick) 1. Go to Element Beam Loads

Hot rolled asphalt: 23.0 kN/m^3 2. Select Surfacing as Load Case

2
0.120 m x 23.0 kN x 1.5 m = 4.14 kN/m 3. Select Uniform Loads as Load Type

4. Select Global Z direction

Parapet: 0.5 kN/m 5. Enter the surfacing value -4.14 kN/m

3 Parapet to be applied at exterior girder with eccentricity of 0.75m 6. Select girders and Click Apply

7. Select Barrier as Load Case

8. Select Uniform Loads as Load Type

9. Apply Eccentricity of 0.75m and -0.75m

in Global Y for exterior girders

4 10. Select Global Z direction

11. Enter the Barriers value -0.5 kN/m

12. Select one side of exterior girder and

5 Click Apply

13. Repeat 7 to 12 for opposite side of

girder

14. Click Close

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 Tendon Generation: Tendon Property

2
1

1. Go to Temp/Prestress

2. Click Tendon Property

3
3. Input tendon property
Tendon Type: Internal(Pre-Tension)
Material: Y1860S7(12.9mm)
Total Tendon Area
Strand Diameter: 12.7 mm(0.5”)
Number of Strands: 1
Strand Diameter: 20 mm
Relaxation: CEB-FIP 2010
Class 1 : Slow

4. Click OK

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Tendon Generation: Tendon Template

2
4
1. Go to Structure > Wizard > PSC Bridge > Tendon Template

6 2. Select girder

3. Click Add and repeat this procedure for all girder

4. Click Auto generation and input Tendon information

5
Tendon Property: TY
Code: UK
Type: UK-TY
Name: TY11

5. Click OK

6. Click OK

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 Tendon Generation: Tendon Template

2
1

1. Go to Load > Temp/Prestress Normally we can prestress up to 70 % of Ultimate

Tensile Strength or 90% of Yield Strength of the
2. Click Tendon Prestress Tendon.

3 3. Select Prestress Load Case fu x 0.7 = 1863.26 x 0.7 = 1304.282 N/mm2

4. Select all tendon and click ’>’ button fy x 0.9 = 1569.07 x 0.9 = 1412.163 N/mm2

5. Select Stress as Stress Value option

4 6. Click Add Therefore apply approximately 1000 N/mm2 as a

prestress value.
7. Click Close

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 Pre-composite Action

Normally construction stage analysis is applied

in order to consider the composite action of
2 composite girder bridge. Without applying
construction stage analysis, this can be
obtained by defining load cases for pre-
composite section.
Time dependent material properties are also
applied to consider creep/shrinkage of
concrete. However the ratio of elastic
modulus of girder and slab can be used to
simulate time dependent effect of concrete
as a approximate method.
Note: The method used in this tutorial takes
3 into account the approximate approach of
considering composite action and time
dependent material effect.
1. Go to Settlement/Misc. > Pre-composite
Section For accurate consideration of these effects,
user needs to apply construction stage
2. Select Self-Weight and Prestress Load Case
analysis with time dependent material
3. Click OK properties.

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 Moving Load

1 2

Lane 2
3

Start
End 4
Point Lane 1 Point

1. Go to Moving Load and select BS code

2. Click Traffic Line Lanes and Click Add 2 5

3. Input Traffic Lane Properties
6
4. Select Cross Beam as Vehicular Load Distribution

5. Define the traffic lane by using 2 Points method

(Start & End points)

6. Click Add
7
7. Click OK then create Lane2 selecting same
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 Moving Load

1
3

4
2

1. Go to Vehicles

2. Click Add Standard

3. Select BD37/01 Standard Load

4. Select HA & HB(Auto)

5. Click OK

6. Click Close

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 Moving Load

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2 1. Go to Moving Load Case

2. Click Add

3. Enter the moving load case data and

click Add

4. Input Load Case Data

9
Scale Factor: 1
No. of Loaded Lanes: 2
Vehicle type: HA & HB(Auto)

5. Move the lanes to the Selected Lanes

4 6. Select Lane 1 and Lane 2 and add it to

HB Straddling Two Lanes

7. Click OK
5 8. Click OK
6
9. Click Close

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 Moving Load: Concurrent Reaction Group

1. Go to Load > Moving Load > Concurrent Reaction

Group

2 2. Select Boundary node group

3. Click OK

Concurrent reaction at the support nodes can be

reviewed conveniently with this.

The result can be checked with table form from the

result table.

[Results > Result Tables > Concurrent(Max/Min) Reaction]

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 Result Checking: Displacement

1. Go to Results > Deformations

4 > Displacement Contour

2. Select Load Cases

3. Select Components

4. Choose Type of Display

5. Click Apply
5 6. Click button to review
tabular results
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 Result Checking: Forces (Beam Diagrams)

1. Go to Results > Forces >

4 Beam Diagrams

2. Select Load Cases

3. Select Components

4. Choose Type of Display

5. Click Apply

6. Click button to review

5 tabular results
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 Result Checking: Moving Load (My)

1
1. Go to Results > Moving Tracer
> Beam Forces/Moment

2. Select Key Element

2
3. Select Components

4. Choose Type of Display

5. Click Apply

For Key Element: 76

5 Max My: 1407.7 kNm

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 Result Checking: Moving Load (Fz)

1. Go to Results > Moving Tracer

> Beam Forces/Moment

2. Select Key Element

2
3. Select Components

4. Choose Type of Display

5. Click Apply

For Key Element: 76

5 Max Fz: 111.09 kN

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Result Checking: Moving Load (Concurrent Force)

1. Go to Results > Forces > Beam Diagram and

click button to see tabular results
1 2. Enter
2 Key Element: 76
Load Case: MVL1 (MV:max)
and click OK

3. Right Click and select View by Max Value Item

4. Select
Items to Display: Shear-z&Moment –y
Load Case: MVL1(MV:max)
and click OK

For Key Element: 76

Max My: 1407.7 kNm
3
Max Fz: 111.09 kN

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