FEA Imaging Sounds Warning about Freeway Bridge


Posted by 3DCAD Editor 

Safety concerns have restricted traffic over the main freeway bridge through downtown Cleveland, near the area where Design World magazine is published.  Now we are finding out that the crisis was revealed by an FEA analysis of a four-sided steel beam on the Inner Belt Bridge over Interstate 90 in downtown Cleveland.  The story was written by reporter Karen Farkas of the Plain Dealer. Abaqus FEA was used to perform a three dimensional nonlinear stress analysis of the lower chord and gusset... 


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