Work with various samples and test propertiesĪlso, the utility provides you with a floating bar that enhances your experience when working with these kinds of designs. This way, you can view each used component and adjust the design the way you want. The main window of West Point Bridge Designer is sectioned by two panels from where you can easily view the bridge design you have created and the member list. The application comes with the right tools in order to help you understand how structures work and to create, test and optimize your bridge design. The main purposes of West Point Bridge Designer are to provide you with an opportunity to learn how an engineering process works and design a highway bridge in no time. To see exactly how the Bridge Designer calculates the cost of your bridge, click the Cost Calculations button on the main toolbar.West Point Bridge Designer is a comprehensive and reliable software solution worth having when you need to design realistic bridge models in an intuitive environment. That’s why, in the Bridge Designer cost calculation, there is a $1,000 penalty for each unique member size added to the design. Thus there is some economic benefit in reducing the overall number of different member sizes–even if some members in the final design are somewhat heavier than required for structural load-carrying. If a structure is designed solely to minimize material cost, the design is likely to include many different member sizes but this practice is actually somewhat inefficient, because there are added costs associated with ordering all of these different sizes, managing them on the jobsite, and connecting different-sized members together. The product cost represents an important real-world aspect of structural engineering design–that standardization of member sizes can improve overall cost-efficiency. In this circumstance, if the cost saving due to the reduced member size is less than $1,000, the overall cost of the bridge will increase. When you reduce the size of a member, you reduce its material cost however, if the modified member is a unique new product (i.e., if its material, cross-section shape, and size are different from any other member in the structural model), then the product cost is increased by $1,000. The cost of a given bridge design consists of three components–material cost, connection cost, and product cost. To understand how reducing the size of a member can sometimes cause the overall cost of the bridge to increase (and how increasing a member size can sometimes cause an overall decrease in cost), you must first understand how the Bridge Designer calculates the cost of your bridge.
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