Abstract: This paper is the second of a two‐part series describing the design and implementation of an interactive reinforced concrete beam design environment called BeamTool. Part two focuses on the issues of implementing and testing ...

Abstract: Historically, the lack of interactive preprocessors to describe tedious finite element models has hindered the use of the finite element method for bridge analysis. The work performed in the present study mitigates this ...

Abstract: Solid modeling is the process of building and analyzing geometrically complete representations of points, lines, polygons, and three‐dimensional solid objects. In a functional sense, a model is said to be geometrically ...

Abstract: This is the first of a two‐part paper on the development and preliminary testing of a methodology for the optimal probabilistic limit states design of seismic‐resistant steel frames. A mechanism for allowing a designer to ...

Abstract: This is the second part of a two‐part paper on the development and preliminary testing of a methodology for the optimal probabilistic limit states design of seismic‐resistant steel frames. Part two illustrates the design ...

Abstract: CSTRUCT is a computational environment for the structural design and analysis of earthquake‐resistant steel frames. CSTRUCT is currently running on a MicroVax II/GPX workstation. This paper summarizes our recently developed ...