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Expert Tips: Analysis and Design of a Concrete Network Tied Arch Bridge for California High-Speed Rail


In our previous webinar, Analysis and design of a concrete network tied arch bridge for California high-speed rail, our MIDAS Expert Engineer Hadi T. Al-Khateeb, Ph.D., S.E., P.E. a Senior Bridge Engineer at Jacobs, provided an overview of ...

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Expert Tips: Geometric Nonlinearity Explained


Dr. Seungwoo Lee has talked about some fundamental differences between linear and nonlinear analysis in structural engineering in the past. ...

Expert Tips: Plastic Hinges


Pushover analysis has become an essential tool for the design and analysis of nonlinear bridge structures, and plastic hinges are used in mi...

Expert Q&A: Pushover Analysis


With more users asking us questions regarding pushover analysis and its applications in midas Civil, we want to share the answers to some of...
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Do we really know the foundation performance during liquefaction?


In 2010, the M8.8 Maule Chile earthquake impacted most of central Chile. It was catastrophic to say to least resulting in over 500 lives los...
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Bridge Column Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering


Check out the paper below for information on how the engineers used MIDAS Civil to identify the possible distribution of modern bridge respo...
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Validation of Current Seismic Design Nonlinear Time History Analysis


Anoosh Shamsabadi Tom Ostrom, Office of Earthquake Engineering, California Department of Transportation, Sacramento, CA Ertugrul Taciroglu C...