Mixte Verif
Software for design of composite road and railway bridges
Mixte Verif is an advanced software application for the design according to Eurocodes of composite road and railway bridges.
Mixte Verif allows the design of a composite bridge with I or box section. The internal forces under reglementary loads for the most unfavorable girder, calculated by any structural analysis software, are the data input of the software. Mixte Verif provides the capability to perform the calculation of internal forces for particular loads as shrinkage and temperature or other.
Mixte Verif defines automatically, all the reglementary combinations (SLS, ULS), calculates stresses and realizes all the Eurocode verifications. The verifications report is automatically generated.
Mixte Verif is developed and owned by Computer Control Systems S.A. (CCS).
Mixte Verif is the result of the high level of expertise and experience of CCS engineers in the composite bridges domain. CCS software is being used by organizations such as the design department of the French railways (SNCF), Design Offices, and Construction Companies such as Eiffage Métal and Baudin Chateauneuf.
General:
- Composite bridges with I or box section.
- Analysis under loads, performed by any structural analysis software.
- Reglementary combinatios automatically performed.
- Interface: English, French.
Structural data:
An efficient graphical user interface is used for the basic data input as described below:
- Structure topology definition (geometry) for automatic node generation of the linear beam model.
- Material mechanical properties definition.
- Sections geometrical characteristics definition for I or box sections with automatic calculation of their mechanical characteristics for all stages.
- Detailed concreting phases definition.
- Definition of traffic and train loads taking into account the torsional loads.
- Simple introduction procedure of the internal forces, performed by any third party software.
- Automatic generation of load combinations and envelops.
Eurocodes:
- Automatic calculation of effective widths at all positions.
- Automatic calculation of equivalent factors according to the load type and the concreting day.
- Automatic creation of reglementary loads and combinations (SLS, ULS).
- Sections classification and reduced section characteristics due to buckling and shear lag.
- SLS and ULS design checks of the composite section taking into account the concrete cracking, the moment-stresses redistribution and the shear lag.
- Fatigue verifications.
- Verification of the web panel stability and stiffeners.
- Calculation and verification of the shear connectors.
- Verification of the welds.
- Eigen values calculation of the composite beam.
- Influence lines.
Flange treatment:
Shear lag effect
- SLS combinations and fatigue.
- ULS combinations (tension, compression).
Buckling
- Plate buckling of elementary sub-panels.
- Global buckling of the flange
Shear verification
- Shear stress check in the global stiffened flange.
- Shear stress check in each sub-panel of the flange.
- Interaction M-V.
Longitudinal stiffeners
- Axial Rigidity δ.
- Flexural Rigidity γ.
- Torsional Rigidity θ.
- Buckling.