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PGSuper is an engineering tool. It should not be considered a substitute for knowledge, judgement, or experience.
PGSuper is a comprehensive precast-prestressed girder design, analysis and load rating software used by engineers around the world.
PGSuper supports many girder types including WSDOT, TxDOT, and AASHTO shapes. Use the Girder Library to add your own shapes.
You can get analysis results by simply creating a report.
PGSuper is a member of the Alternate Route Project.
PGSuper is the only precast-prestressed girder software that optimizes designs for fabrication.
You can move the toolbars by dragging them around the screen. Toolbars can be docked on all four edges or they can be floating.
PGSuper is Open Source Software. You can download source code from http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/software
If you don't tell us about problems, we might not know they exist. Please help us make this software better by reporting problems to [email protected].
You can find PGSuper Watch and Learn tutorials at www.PGSuper.com
PGSuper has many reports for you to choose from. Select a report from the list in the Reporting Options dialog.
You can search a report for keywords or phrases. Right click on the report window and select the Find option.
Because PGSuper is Open Source, you can modify the software to fit your needs.
You can enter your own live load distribution factors. Select Loads | Live Load Distribution Factors
You can turn off the Automatic Calculation mode. Select Project | Turn AutoCalc Off.
Because PGSuper is Open Source, you can create new programs that are based on PGSuper.
PGSuper is developed by programmers from WSDOT and BridgeSight Software (http://www.bridgesight.com).
Stripes and plaids don't mix.
You can model girders with flared girders and tapered deck edges.
Ultimate moment capacities are computed using a non-linear strain compatiblity analysis.
The Table of Contents makes it easy to navigate reports. Right click on a report window and select the Table of Contents option.
PGSuper is the only prestressed girder design software you can adapt so it works exactly as you want it to.
You can get detailed framing plan geometry from the Bridge Geometry Report.
In the Girder View, you can specify the location where the cross section is cut by pressing the Section Cut Offset button.
Comments and suggestions can be sent to [email protected]
You can change the length of a span by clicking on the span length in the Bridge Plan View and entering a new value.
Equation 5.6.3.1.1-1, average stress in prestressing steel, is only applicable near the mid-point of a span (See C5.6.3.1.1). PGSuper uses a strain compatibility analysis to determine the ultimate moment capacity at a section.
There are no HS loads in the LRFD specification. LRFD has a notional live load model called HL93 and its design truck (coincidentially) has the same configuration has an HS20 truck from the Standard Specification, but no HS trucks.
PGSuper can model sidewalks and pedestrian live load on sidewalks.
The Texas Deparment of Transportation is a PGSuper development partner. You can be too! Contact us at http://pgsuper.com for details.
You can select which toolbars to display by selecting View | Toolbars.
You shouldn't run with scissors.
PGSuper does LRFR load rating analysis.
You can create your own live load trucks. Do it in the Vehicular Live Load Library.
PGSuper supports Box Beams, Double Tee, Triple Tee, Nebraska/CalTrans/New England girders, U-Beams, I-Beams, Deck Bulb Tees, and Precast Slabs.
You can double click on the status indicator to open the status center window
In the Girder View, you can select a cross section by moving the cross section selection tool.
WSDOT and TxDOT publish their PGSuper configuration in the cloud. Use File | Program Settings to configure PGSuper to use these resources. If they are updated, PGSuper will keep you informed.
Eugene Freyssinet, a French engineer, is often referred to as the "father of prestressed concrete"
You can find out what a PGSuper toolbar button does by letting your cursor rest over it for a few seconds.
You can quickly change boundary conditions at a pier. Right clicking on the pier object and select the boundary condition you want.
PGSuper has a flexible library system. You can create your own girder types, concrete definitions, design critiria, and more.
You can add new functionality to PGSuper with plug-ins and extensions.
You can get 24x7 support by subscribing to the Alternate Route Project Peer-to-Peer support forums. Visit http://pgsuper.com as click on Support.
If you have created a library of girders that you'd like included with PGSuper, please share them at http://pgsuper.com
You can toggle AutoCalc mode by double clicking on the AutoCalc indicator in the status bar
PGSuper can design draped strands.
You can undo and redo changes to your bridge model.
You can mix girder types within a span. This works great if you want to mix adjacent beams to get a specific bridge width.
PGSuper can model pedestrian/bicycle only bridges.
Use the Analysis Results View to plot moments, shears, displacements, stresses, limit states, ultimate capacities, and allowable limits.
You can put the master library on a network drive so your entire office can share it.
You can quickly change analysis modes by double clicking on the analysis mode indicator in the status bar.
You can save a PGSuper project as a template. Templates are used to create new projects. Choose "Save As Template..." from the File menu.
Engineers all over the world use PGSuper.
PGSuper can model sidewalks and combination railings.
Chocolate pudding is a poor choice for a structural material.
QConBridge, WSDOT's Open Source Live Load Analysis Program is available from http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/software
You can create a set of master templates and put them on a network drive so your entire office can share them. Choose File | Program Settings to specify the location.
You can create your own PGSuper Project Templates.
PGSuper can design debonded strands.
You can quickly copy prestressing, transverse reinforcement, and handling information from one girder to another. Chose Project | Copy Girder Properties.
Use the Girder Comparison Report to compare prestressing, transverse reinforcement, and handling information from different girders in a span.
Lifting and hauling effects are often the critical limit states for very long girders. PGSuper considers both stress effects and non-linear strength effects for lifting and hauling.
You can select the alignment, slab and girders in the Bridge View. You can edit an item by double clicking on it.
Right click on an item in the Bridge View to activate its context menu. The context menu is full of the most common commands.
You can publish your own libraries and templates on the Internet. Post a message to the Alternate Route Project Peer-to-Peer mailing list and ask for details.