Expert Tips: Contrasting SOE Design Methodologies and Implications

In this Midas Webinar Session, our Expert Engineer Parsa Heydarpour from Subsurface and Tunnel Engineering shared his knowledge on how to do a comparative analysis between three SOE Design approaches – Traditional, 3D FEA, and 2D FEA – for a conventional shaft structure, to showcase key advantages and limitations of each design.

Expert Tips : Strut-and-Tie Modeling for Pier Caps

Strut-and-tie analysis visualizes the flow of forces through any type of concrete element in the form of internal truss. The tensile members of the internal truss are called "ties" and the compressive members of the internal truss are called "struts" in struct-and-tie analysis. The joints that are needed to join the two types of members together are called "nodes".

Webinar : Pier Cap Design Utilizing The Strut-And-Tie Provisions of AASHTO LRFD and midas Civil

In this Midas Webinar Session, our Top Expert Engineer Daniel Baxter and Shayla Olson from Michael Baker International shared their knowledge present on pier cap designs using the strut-and-tie method and explain how to use the moving load tracer function in MIDAS and how to write nodal load definitions to the MCT program text file.