SCADDS/Bridge SuperCAD Release 2.1

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This package is meant for Load Estimation, Analysis, Design & fully automatic Drafting of Tee Beam Superstructures for Reinforced Concrete Multilane Right Bridges as per IS, IRC and Ministry of Transport (Roads Wing) specifications.

This suite bundles two products:

SCADDS/Bridge Superstructure Analyst™, performs Load Estimation and Analysis of T-Beam Superstructures of Reinforced Concrete Multilane Bridges as per IS, IRC and Ministry of Transport (Roads Wing) specifications.

SCADDS/Bridge Superstructure Designer™, performs Design and Drafting of T-Beam Superstructures of Reinforced Concrete Multilane Bridges as per IS, IRC and Ministry of Transport (Roads Wing) specifications.

SCADDS/Bridge SuperCAD™, bundles the above two products through a single User Interface.

SCADDS/Bridge SuperCAD™ had won the ACCE Award for the year 1995 for the Best Software Package in Civil Engineering, constituted by the Association of Consulting Civil Engineers.

Presently, these individual products are on MS-DOS® platform and controlled through a Windows® 95/98 User Interface.

You can download the Trial Version of the entire suite from the Downloads section.

Common Features of SCADDS/Bridge SuperCAD 2.1

Standard Features in Structural Engineering Domain

  • Standard Concrete Mixes as well as User-Designed Mixes.
  • Fe250, Fe415 and Fe500 Grades of Steel for Main Reinforcement.
  • Fe250 and Fe415 Grades of Steel for Stirrups.
  • Automatic Pre-Processing and Post-Processing facilitating Minimum User Input.
  • Facility to generate detailed Reports of Design with Quick Reference Summary.
  • Built-in Databases for Standard Input Parameters.
  • Facility for User Defined Input.
  • Fully Automatic Post-processing for Graphical Display of Sections.
  • Individual Data Editing Facility.
  • Facility for Limited or Extensive Output.
  • Reference to all relevant IRC Clauses in the output, facilitating easy cross reference.
  • User-changeable Global Parameters Poisson's Ration, Continuity Coefficients, etc. (Top)

    Standard Features in Software Domain

  • Efficient, Intuitive, Highly User-friendly and Consistent User Interface.
  • WHAT-IF? Explorer™ Facility, found only in Expert Systems.
  • An Intelligent, On-line WHAT-NEXT? Advisor™.
  • A WHY? Narrator™ for Error Isolation and On-line suggestions.
  • Completely menu-driven User Interface with Character Oriented Window System (COWS) and Dialog Boxes for easy Data Specification.
  • Data Entry Dialogs equipped with Push Buttons, Input Fields, History Windows, Radio Buttons, Check Boxes and List Boxes for Fast and Easy Data Selection and Specification.
  • Intelligent Data Acceptance Mechanism, Intelli-Validator™, prompting the user for structured, schematic and error free input.
  • Complete Mouse Support.
  • Extensive, Context-Sensitive, Hyper-Text On-line Help System with an exhaustive On-line Topic Index.
  • Multiple, Resizeable, Overlapping Windows for viewing Input, Output, Summary and Report simultaneously.
  • An efficient Report File Manager.
  • An efficient Print Manager to print part or whole of Input, Output, Summary and Report to User Specified Format.
  • Generalization of design algorithms to suit all situations.
  • Print Preview facility to preview the file to be printed using the Print Manager settings.
  • Efficient use of Memory through Dynamic Memory Management.
  • Modular and Highly Structured Computer Code through Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Concepts.
  • Desktop Utilities such as Calculator, Calendar, Timer, Screen Saver, etc.
  • Easy Keyboard Access to all Commands through Accelerators.
  • Instantaneous access to DOS Environment.
  • Classical Numerical Algorithms for Superfast Execution.
  • Graphics support for VGA/SVGA Cards.
  • Default Startup and Auto-Loading of Projects with efficient Project File Management.
  • An Input Status Window to instantaneously display the Status of various parts of Input.
  • An Output Status Window to instantaneously display the Status of various phases of the Run.
  • Auto-opening of Multiple Windows after each Run command.
  • Customization of Print Manager Settings.
  • Customization of Desktop Utilities.
  • Efficient Software Security System.
  • Fully explained User Documentation.
  • Automatic Installation.
  • Prompt intimation and Hefty Discounts on Upgraded Releases.
  • 120 days' Warranty and Prompt after-sales Support.
  • Technical Support on using SCADDS Series of Software Applications for any of your Projects.
  • FREE Subscription to THE SCADDS WORLD, a News Letter published from SCADDS.
  • An Excellent Teaching Tool for the Novice.
  • A Very Powerful Assistant to the Professional.
  • Real Value for Money with absolute Accuracy & Reliability. (top)

Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers!)

Q. What does SCADDS/Bridge SuperCAD do?

A. SCADDS/Bridge SuperCAD is a software package for performing Load Estimation, Analysis, Design and Drafting of Tee Beam Superstructures for Reinforced Concrete Multilane Right Bridges as per IS, IRC and Ministry of Transport (Roads Wing) Specifications.

Q. Why should SCADDS/Bridge SuperCAD be used though standard (ready-made) designs for bridge structures for select spans are already available?

A. SCADDS/Bridge SuperCAD is a completely generalized software package to design RCC Bridge Superstructures such as deck slab panels, longitudinal girders and transverse girders. Through the implementation of totally generalized and highly sophisticated analysis and design algorithms, innumerable types/conditions/geometric variations, with respect to the slab panel sizes, sectional dimensions of longitudinal and transverse girders and their relative locations can be easily analyzed, designed and detailed within minutes.

The standard (ready-made) designs available are very limited in their scope as only typical dimensional variations are considered while preparing such designs. It has been observed that many times, these designs fail to fully satisfy the actual requirements and preferences of the Bridge Engineer and by using such ready-made designs, the Bridge Engineer is forced to change his preferences to suit the provisions/limitations available in such ready-made designs.

Hence, SCADDS/Bridge SuperCAD is the obvious choice of any Bridge Engineer whose creativity and goal to provide economical design solutions cannot be compromised with ready-made solutions which were, in fact, developed only to act as guidelines for t