Hi
I have the following technical question please could you help?
I wish to model a bridge deck, it is formed of:
longitudinal plate girders
transverse plate girders
with a uniform concrete deck which also over hangs the outer longitudinal beams
I am looking at building the deck as wide taper user members and plate elements, linking them over beam locations using the master slave function.
I undertook a simple sensitive to confirm this approach is ok, however the displacement I get is less than a comparable hand calculation.
Can you please advise on why there is this discrepancy?
Many thanks
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