School of Civil and Construction Engineering
Spring
2020
CE 583 Bridge Design
Text input files required
for computer analysis of moving loads (Canvas doesn’t support downloading text
files, so this is the work around)
Here
is how to get it: 1) Make a folder on your local hard drive
2)
Right click on the file you want to download from this page (put cursor over
the BLUE HYPERLINKS at bottom of this page)
3)
Click Save link as
4)
Navigate to your folder on your hard drive
5)
Click Save
6)
It will download to the location you picked
7)
Go to back to step 2 to get other files you want (need both the truck and
locations files to run)
8)
Edit the locs.dat file using wordpad for the
locations you want
9)
Double click the executable (downloaded from Canvas) to perform the analysis
10)
Use the header excel file to organize the results for the number of points you
used