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LimitState:RING - Masonry Arch Bridge Analysis Software

Multi-Span Analysis

Automatically identify the critical collapse mode, whether this involves failure of one, two or more spans - no need to balance the thrusts exerted on pierheads by hand.

 

LimitState:RING - Multi-span analysis

Validation

LimitState:RING is continually validated against high quality data from both small and full-scale laboratory tests.

Be confident that the output is as accurate as possible.

LimitState:RING - Validation Tests

Vehicle Database

LimitState:RING ships with an extensive database of road and railway vehicles.

Alternatively, define your own custom vehicles and save them for use in other projects.

 

LimitState:RING - Vehicle database
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LimitState:RING 3.0 is the latest version of the popular software product for masonry arch bridge analysis - designed from the ground up with the needs of professional engineers in mind:

  • Modern, intuitive user interface
  • Multi-ring, multi-span masonry arch analysis (no need to balance thrusts)
  • Use a wide range of built-in and user-defined arch profiles
  • Include local defects such as mortar loss and weak masonry
  • Undertake support settlement analyses
  • View moment, shear and normal force diagrams
  • Allocate separate properties to nearsurface and deep fill
  • Model reinforcement

LimitState:RING uses rigorous mathematical optimization to directly identify a wide range of potential modes of response, including those involving:

  • Hinging and/or masonry failure
  • Radial sliding
  • Ring separation
  • Single or multi-spans
  • Support movement

LimitState:RING is the only commercially available software for masonry arch bridge analysis to implement the rigid block method, described in a key industry report* as:

quick and reliable for a significant range of bridge configurations... a very versatile tool...

a significant improvement from basic limit analysis formulations

* CIRIA C656 - Masonry arch bridges: condition, appraisal and remedial treatment.

LimitState:RING Screenshot | Masonry Arch Bridge Analysis Software | Support Movement Analysis
Support movement analysis

LimitState:RING Screenshot | Masonry Arch Bridge Analysis Software | Multi Ring Analysis
Multi-ring analysis

LimitState:RING Screenshot | Masonry Arch Bridge Analysis Software | Multi Span Analysis
Multi-span analysis

LimitState:RING Screenshot | Masonry Arch Bridge Analysis Software | Loading Vehicle Database
Loading vehicle database

LimitState:RING Screenshot | Masonry Arch Bridge Analysis Software | Model Localized Defects
Model localized defects

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