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LUSAS Bridge Modelling: Grillage
Analysis
Course Summary
| Featuring
two online sessions of between 90-120 minutes each, this course provides engineers with a
good understanding of the relevant facilities within LUSAS to
carry out grillage (or grid) modelling and analysis.
Grillage (or grid) modelling
remains a very popular method for analysing bridge decks
because it is relatively easy to comprehend, computationally
inexpensive, and proven to be sufficiently accurate for a wide
variety of bridge types.
Learn about the modelling
methodology, loading facilities, interpreting the results, and
the limitations of the method and identifying alternatives. |
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Learn about and
obtain practical engineering guidance to the following:
- Basic concepts of grillage
analysis including discussions on layout and
limitations.
- When it is appropriate to
use a grillage analysis and when it is not
- Efficient data preparation
and calculation of section properties
- How to incorporate a staged
construction sequence into the grillage analysis
- The effect of the application of
highway and rail loads as part of the analysis process
- Learn from practical
examples including slab decks and composite bridges with
bracing
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Course Dates
| Course
name |
Dates |
No
of sessions |
Time
of each session |
Course
cost |
Booking |
| LUSAS
Bridge Modelling - Grillage Analysis |
6,
13 February 2025 |
2 |
14:00
- 16:00 GMT
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150
GBP |
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Bookings and payments
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To book and pay for a single place on
a course click the 'Book now' button. If multiple bookings of
staff from the same organisation are required with payment to be
made via a single invoice, please
contact the training course administrator at training@lusas.com
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Course costs include
handouts and are quoted in local
currencies and are exclusive of any local government taxes (if
applicable).
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Please note that when paying by credit card the
amount charged in your currency may differ according to exchange rates and credit
card fees incurred, which are beyond our control.
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For cancellations to attend a training course that are received in writing
at least 1 day prior to the first session taking place, the
course cost will be refunded.
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LUSAS reserves the right
to reject bookings and
to cancel or re-schedule courses or individual sessions in the
unlikely event of this being required.
On successful completion
of the course, and with subsequent experience, delegates should be
able to successfully tackle most types of linear static structural
analyses that are encountered in mainstream structural and bridge
engineering.
Online training information
| Sessions
presented using |
Session
length |
After
session offline self-study required |
Training
certificates |
| GoToWebinar |
90 to 120 minutes |
45
to 60 minutes |
Issued
on successful completion |
Notes
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Training sessions
are provided using the GoToWebinar
web conferencing facility. You can join each training session up to 10 minutes before the scheduled start
time. They will start promptly.
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Training sessions
are a mix of PowerPoint presentation and live demonstration
of LUSAS.
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Delegates do
not undertake any hands-on examples during each session, but examples that cover the concepts introduced are provided for download and use by
delegates after each session. These examples will take between 45 and 60
minutes of offline self-study to complete. Email support is available from the
presenter to assist with these examples if needed.
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Session
presentations can be downloaded from a training course event page
and printed off if required.
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Delegates
are able to ask the presenter
questions during the training session via the chat tool or afterwards via email.
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Sessions
are recorded and links to recordings will be provided to
delegates to allow viewing if a session is missed.
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Training
certificates are provided to those who successfully complete the
series of worked examples and pass the quiz set after each
session.
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Registration
for Session 1 is a requirement to attend all
subsequent sessions.
LUSAS software version
LUSAS version 21 will be used to
present this course and is also required to undertake any offline
homework examples that may be provided..
Accessing LUSAS
Individuals who wish to attend the
training who do not have access to the required version of the
software may request a
temporary training licence from LUSAS to allow the running of the software on their personal computers. After
booking your place on the course, please
contact training@lusas.com
to request a licence stating your name and details as asked for on
the booking form.
Downloading LUSAS
LUSAS may be downloaded either as an
ISO file, or as a small startup executable. Use whichever is better or works for
you.
| Options
for downloading LUSAS Version 21
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| ISO file
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OR |
Web
installer
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| Download a
single disk image file containing all installation
components.
Select this option for offline installation on one or more
PCs. |
Download a
small setup executable which allows you to choose those
components that you wish to download and install.
Select this option for online installation on a single PC.
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Please contact onlinetraining@lusas.com
if you have any questions relating to the licence key sent to you.
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Typical Course Content
Session 1 -
Introduction to Grillage Analysis
 Learn
how to undertake a simple grillage analysis with the use of basic examples not
complex theory.
- Overview of the basic concepts of grillage
analysis (layout, dimensions, spacing, skews, etc).
- Efficient data preparation focusing on section
properties.
- Use of multiple analyses to consider short and
long term properties.
- Effective application of highway or rail
traffic loads.
- Presentation and homework example: Concrete
slab deck with highway traffic loading.
- Online quiz to complete the session.
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Session 2 - Advanced
Grillage Analysis
 Having
gained basic knowledge of grillage analysis, this session will provide details
on how to analyse more complex structures.
- Building on session one, more complex bridge
structures, such as multi-span composite bridges and box bridges will be
discussed, covering how they can be modelled.
- When grillage analysis is appropriate and when
limitations would require more advanced analysis
- How to incorporate bracing into the grillage
model.
- Understand how to efficiently consider and
incorporate a staged construction process into the analysis model
- Presentation and homework example: Multi-span
composite bridge with bracing.
- Online quiz to complete the session
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Some delegate
feedback from LUSAS scheduled training courses:
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“This
class was excellent and one of the best training courses that I
have taken." (Tim E.)
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“Very
good demonstrations/teachers with a good variety of hands-on
examples.” (Douglas R.)
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"The
instructor was phenomenal! Engaged, energetic, helpful and
friendly! Could not have asked for a better one." (Joe K.)
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