• Barlist  - Reinforcing steel quantity estimating tool.  Read Review
• PGSuper - LRFD Prestressed Girder SUPERstructure design and analysis software.  Read Review
• QConBridge - HL93 Live Load Analysis for continuous bridge structures.
• BEToolbox - Collection of utility programs.

• LRFD MathCad bridge design examples for precast concrete beams and cast-in-place flat slab bridges.

Design Software

• Yield -   DOS program can analyze, check or design concrete columns for biaxial bending and axial load by the ultimate strength theory.    The program uses the "Bridge Design Specification" of California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).

• Foot - DOS program designs and checks spread footings

• Abud - DOS  program  designs or checks reinforced concrete abutments.

• Conc - DOS program for design and check of reinforced and prestressed concrete beams.

Design Software Documentation

 

Standard Forms

• Caltrans - Suggested Work Schedule (Word)

• Response 2000 - is an easy to use sectional analysis program that will calculate the strength and ductility of a reinforced concrete cross-section subjected to shear, moment, and axial load. All three loads are considered simultaneously to find the full load-deformation response using the latest research based on the modified compression field theory. The program was developed at the University of Toronto by Evan Bentz in a project supervised by Professor Michael P. Collins.
• USC_RC - was developed as a tool to address the analytical needs of my (Asad Esmaeily, USC, Civil Engineering Department) research on the seismic behavior of bridge piers under various loading patterns (a PEER-NSF funded research program). It can handle 2 different systems, 4 major cross sections, any kind of steel behavior (by tuning the parameters of the model developed specifically for the program), unconfined and confined concrete Monotonic or Hysteretic stress-strain relationship (right now, one model is available, but some other models, even a custom model will be provided later). 

• NONLIN is a Microsoft Windows based application for the dynamic analysis of single degree of freedom structural systems. The structure may be modeled as elastic, elastic-plastic, or as a yielding system with an arbitrary level of secondary stiffness. The secondary stiffness may be positive, to represent a strain hardening system, or negative, to model P-Delta effects. The dynamic loading may be input as an earthquake accelerogram acting at the base of the structure, as a linear combination of sine, square, or triangular waves applied at the roof of the structure, or as free vibration. The program uses a step-by-step method to solve the incrementally nonlinear equations of motion. See Clough and Penzien [1] for a theoretical description of the solution technique.
• OpenSees - The Open System for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (OpenSees) is a PEER sponsored project to develop a software framework for simulating the seismic response of structural and geotechnical systems. OpenSees is intended to serve as the computational platform for research in performance-based earthquake engineering at PEER. The core development team for the initial development of the project are all members of PEER, however as the framework grows it is hoped the development team will grow to include others in PEER and the engineering community. To allow this growth to happen (and to explain the Open in OpenSees!), OpenSees is open source , i.e. the source code is freely available to any soul who wishes to use it.

• quickBridge - Excel spreadsheet calculates moment and shear envelopes for multi-span continuous bridges.  Truck definitions are user defined and can have up to 20 axles.  Authored by Prof. Noyan Turkkan, Univ. de Moncton, Canada.

   Bridge Foundations

• COM624P -  Laterally Loaded Pile Analysis, Version 2.0. The program uses the p-y curve method to analyze pile foundations subjected to lateral loads. COM624P determines the pile deflection, rotation, bending moment, and shearing forces using an iterative process which considers the nonlinear response of the foundation soils. This program uses the MS DOS operating system by the US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).  Click here for the documentation.

• BridgeLCC is user-friendly life-cycle costing software developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to help bridge engineers assess the cost effectiveness of new, alternative construction materials. The software uses a life-cycle costing methodology based on both ASTM standard E-917 and a cost classification developed at NIST.
• Spreadsheet Solutions for Structural Engineers

Bentley View is a powerful design review application for everyone on your design team. Bentley View is fully compatible with both  MicroStation DGN and AutoCAD DWG drawings and models, allowing you to open, view, interrogate and print design data, as well as graphically review the progress of your projects with the design history technology found in MicroStation V8. Extend the accessibility of engineering data for MicroStation, AutoCAD or hybrid projects with Bentley View.