The Mathcad Team Next in the series of our ‘Meet the Mathcad Users’ () is the staff from the. Thanks to modern-day luxuries and technology, interviews can be conducted in myriad ways.

Nov 9, 2017 - LRFD Box Culvert Program is a Mathcad 14 program that designs concrete box culverts, wingwalls, headwalls, and cutoff walls in accordance with the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Specification. Mathcad enables engineers to easily perform, document and share calculation and design results. Mathcad's interface.

For this one, I traded a few email messages with some folks over at FDOT, and then began the interview (asynchronously, via email)., below is our interview with the Florida DOT and their exceptional use of Mathcad. PTC: From what PTC understands, FDOT structures has standardized on Mathcad for calculation software. Is that true?

Can you elaborate a bit more on what it means to be standardized (as in, everyone is asked to use it, they have to use it, etc. Planes Mistaken For Stars Mercy Rar Download. )? FDOT: Many of our Mathcad software programs work in conjunction with FDOT Standard Drawings. These standard drawings of a transportation structural element such as a bridge beam or a typically have variables like A, B, C for dimensions or other parameters instead of a specific dimension/parameter as would be found in a regular set of plans. We then use a Mathcad program to design or analyze the structure and the program outputs the values for A, B, C. We do not require the use of our Mathcad programs, but we think we have provided an incentive to do so by providing a design method of standard drawings and Mathcad program that is very efficient and economical. PTC: About how many people use it on a regular basis?

FDOT: Practically all structural engineers in transportation in Florida use Mathcad regularly or semi-regularly. A rough guess of a total number is probably over a thousand. This guess is based on the fact that we have an email distribution list of people who want to be informed of FDOT Structures software news. Akbarnama In Bengali Pdf Free Download. That list that has 700+ email addresses, and we deal with approximately 400 engineering firms as well. PTC: With all of those Mathcad, how did FDOT Structures go about educating everyone on Mathcad?

FDOT: As for knowing how to use Mathcad in general, almost all engineers used Mathcad in college and are well-versed in it. As for FDOT programs, one of the greatest assets of Mathcad is it requires little instruction, all of the calculations are in the open and how to use and understand what our programs are doing is fairly self-evident. Someone who is new to our programs and not too familiar with Mathcad can be given a brief and simple explanation of how our programs work, the basic steps of data input, output, and running the analysis. The learning curve is very short. And since the basics and layout of our programs are very similar, once you learn how to run one of our programs, you pretty much know how to run all of them.

Hammerli 208 International Manual more. PTC: There are lots of choices among software programs for performing calculations. Why did FDOT select Mathcad? FDOT: All of the calculations are in the open.