Form travelers

Define form travelers to be used in the task CANTILEVER in the static calculation of balanced cantilever bridges

Use the context menu (right mouse button) of the menu item Form Travelers to create new placements for form travelers.

The definition of the placement of the form traveler is performed in the property window.

The following figure illustrates the input:

General

Name

Name of the placement for further use

Specification

Weight force

Weight force of the form traveler

e0

Offset of the center of gravity of the form traveler from the middle axis between the two anchoring points

e1

Distance of the first anchoring point from the edge of the structure

e2

Distance between the two anchoring points

e3

Offset of the load application point of the segment from the middle axis of the anchoring points

Select load application point = center of gravity of the segment or user-defined value