Run a Line Girder Analysis

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Now, we're going to switch back over to InfraWorks so that we can do some analysis on the bridge itself.

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In this case, we're going to use the line girder analysis to look at the girder design.

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I'm going to go to the Analyze tab of the ribbon structures panel.

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The first icon is Line Girder Analysis.

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And here I am going to select the bridge so that we can get to the bridge.

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You can enter a project name, job name, and the job reference number.

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And I'm going to run the start analysis.

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Now, this tool does-- I'm going to click that button and start that.

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This tool does take a while to run, upwards of 20 minutes or so.

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So, you may want to plan out when you're going to run this so that you can have other work to go to during its running.

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So, you can see at the bottom, there it says it's running analysis and zero of two are complete.

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Basically, I was looking at two girders there.

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It's going to come back with the information on each girder group as it goes across there.

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We will return when this is complete.

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So now you can see that the analysis tool has completed.

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We're over on the Result tab.

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If I click on one of the girders that we have here, I'm just selecting one from the side, you actually want to select one of the girders specifically.

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So, you see here that I've grabbed the girder group.

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I grab the girder again, now I'm grabbing just the girder and you can see the information that came out of that result.

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You can also click on "View Report"

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and send this out to a report. You can see here that first of all, there's quite a bit of information.

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You can see by the scrolling here how much information is available out of this library of analysis.

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You can also open this up in ASBD or the Autodesk Structural Bridge Design tool.

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We're not going to do that here.

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But you can move it to there from this point having this analysis having been run.