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BEToolbox™ Overview

BEToolbox™ is a collection of WSDOT's legacy bridge engineering tools. This software has been developed for the Alternate Route Project.

The goal of the BEToolbox™ is to bring together our legacy applications into an easy to use and convenient tool without having to re-write the programs. We recognize that many of these legacy tools should be completely re-written from the ground up. That will come later.

BEToolkit™ is licensed with the Alternate Route Open Source License.

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Current Version: 1.6.0 February 10, 2009

Features

When we had these programs running on our VAX system, they were difficult to access and the documentation was difficult to find. It was extremely difficult to share these programs with anyone outside of WSDOT. The programs were also a pain to use because they required you to jump around between the operating system, text editors, and the executable program. Creating input files was always a chore because you had to first find the coding form and them type the data into some cryptic file format.

The BEToolbox™ is a great compromise between the need to re-write the applications and making them more useful and accessible while expending as little effort as possible.

The BEToolbox™ features the following tools:

BOXGIR	Section Properties of box girders
COMGIR	Computes bending stresses in the top and bottom flanges of a curved composite girder
CURVEL	Computes elevations for alignments with horizontal and vertical curves
GIRCOMP	Section Properties of Built-up or Rolled Beam composite steel girders
GPILE	Computes individual pile loads in a pile group
PSGDES	Precast Girder Design and Analysis, Camber and Deflection calculations, and Handling and Hauling Analysis for the AASHTO Standard Specification
TORSION	Computes torsional moments of inertia for closed cell box girder bridges and WSDOT standard prestressed girders.
TRSSMEM	Computes geometric properties of built-up truss members.
ULT2AX	Ultimate Moment Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Sections subject to biaxial bending and axial load


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