Description of the contract
Notification of award of contract to Finite Element Analysis Ltd.
The council have sought a supplier to provide an engineering analysis and design software solution for the analysis, design and assessment of all types of bridge structures.
The software includes the following features/analysis capabilities:
- Linear static stress analysis.
- Linear buckling.
- Natural frequency / eigen analysis.
- Fatigue analysis.
- Ability to identify critical highway vehicle loading patterns on bridges and apply these to models to simplify the evaluation of worst case load position.
- Non-linear analysis capabilities including the following features: Automatic step reduction upon convergence failure and flexible restart facilities, material non-linearity, creep, geometric non-linearity, boundary non-linearity, staged construction and non-linear buckling.
- Masonry bridge wizard to generate 2D and 3D continuum models of single and multi-span masonry arch bridges with semi-circular or segmental arches. The wizard shall produce models which include piers and abutments, skews and use linear or non-linear materials.
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