Bentley today announced that it has acquired TDV GmbH of Austria, a vendor of structural modeling, analysis, and design software for bridge engineering serving engineers, designers, and owners since 1970.
TDV’s RM 2006 product for static and dynamic design and analysis of steel, concrete, and composite structures is used by hundreds of bridge design firms worldwide. The software is applicable to the design of virtually all bridge types – from simple segmented bridges to complex cable-stayed and suspension bridges to long crossings – and has been proven on thousands of projects. A number of these bridges have achieved historic milestones and are, or will soon become, global landmarks. Examples include:
- Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong, which has a main span of 1018 meters, making it the first cable-stayed bridge ever designed with a main span longer than 1000 meters
- The 8206-meter-long Sutong Bridge in China, which will cross the Yangze River and include a multi-span cable-stayed section with a world-record-setting longest span of 1088 meters
- Hardanger Bridge in Norway, a suspension bridge that will have a main span of approximately 1310 meters
- The new Woodrow Wilson Bridge in the United States, which will consist of two side-by-side bascule bridges each 1852 meters in length
RM 2006 provides built-in time dimension, parametric geometry definition, and integrated tendon design, allowing calculation of time-dependent properties for all bridge types and construction sequences. In addition, it supports design to a full array of international design codes, including AASHTO Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) Bridge Specifications, and offers highly sophisticated linear and nonlinear analysis options. These options include segmental construction loading, stage construction and erection control, stochastic wind event design, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), wind tunnel simulation, and more.
--From a press release