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Add a smooth/roughened interface parameter in LEAP Concrete

Currently, LEAP Concrete reports required interface shear reinforcement values for both a smooth and a roughened condition. It also flags a design as not passing if either minimum is not met. If I know I have a roughened girder, I should be able t...
2 days ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

Include LFD Design Code for Superstructure in LEAP Steel

LFD design code is used in superstructure rehabilitation projects for bridges that are originally designed with LFD. Please consider making it an option in LEAP Steel similar to LEAP concrete.
about 1 month ago in OpenBridge Designer 1 Needs review

LBS allow user to change the stage a load is applied

When a load is defined in LBS, it is defined corresponding to a certain construction stage. However, there is no way to change the stage after the load is defined. The user has to delete the load and redefine it in a different stage. (e.g. allow a...
29 days ago in Analytics / OpenBridge Designer 1 Needs review

Developing Grasshopper Plugin for RM Bridge

The world famious bridge softwares such as Lusas, Midas Civil, Sofistik, Larsa 4D. All of them have been developed Grasshopper Plugin to increase the bridge modeling capacity. Lusas Grasshopper plugin: https://www.lusas.com/products/external_plugi...
4 months ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

WS wind speeds table for FDOT Sdg 2.4 (and combinations) are not updated as per 2025

There appears to be a discrepancy in wind load calculations—specifically, the gust factor of 0.85 remains different from AASHTO standards. However, the FDOT Structures Design Guidelines (SDG) 2025 now allow the use of AASHTO Article 3.8, which may...
4 months ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

Separate Limiting Tension Stress at the Top of Prestressed Concrete Girders Near Interior Supports

Add a separate limiting tension stress for the top of girders near interior supports. AASHTO LRFD permits the use of a limiting tension stress at the top of girders near interior supports for Service III different than the limiting tension stress ...
3 months ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

Anisotropic shell elements in RM Bridge

The implementation of FEM shell elements as a supplement to the beams in RM Bridge Enterprise, is a useful tool. Sometimes it will be useful to model the shell elements with different properties in the longitudinal direction compared to the transv...
over 1 year ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

Fiber Mesh Cross Sectional Analysis

Con sider adding fiber-mesh tools for cross section analysis to RMBRIDGE. This allow the use of different materials in the cross section. This is important in seismic analysis for the definition of the Moment-Curvature properties. This feature is ...
12 months ago in Analytics / OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

Character Limit on Naming

RM BRIDGE, increase the naming character limits for load cases and load sets to more than 16 characters.
8 months ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

LBS to read LL libraries from LBC

The Live Load (LL) library in LBS currently allows importing .cs3 files, which are legacy formats from the stand-alone versions of CONSPAN and CONBOX (see screenshot below). However, in the latest releases of LBC under OpenBridge Designer (OBD), i...
4 months ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review