I'm trying to model an existing bridge, It has an abutment that doesnt follow the deck slope, so the elastomeric bearings have each an diffent height. I'm unable to make that in infraworks, since It looks like the abutment automatically follows the deck slope. How would I model that?
With piers, users can currently better control the top of pier cap slopes. Users can specify the left or right slopes, or specify that the top is horizontal. The bearings are then automatically placed and adjusted to match. With abutments, InfraWorks is currently computing slopes of the seat.
However, as shown in the attached image, we are currently implementing a much more flexible approach which will allow more freedom. InfraWorks will be checking for the slopes of the actual abutment seat or piercap top geometry rather than slope parameters and placing the bearings to match. Stay tuned!
-Ara Ashikian, P.Eng
PM Bridges / Civil Structures
Find attached this work-in-progress Inventor based pier. You might have to adjust the PierCapLeftExtension and PierCapRightExtension values as well as the spacing of the girders to be consistent with the steps of the pier. The external girders should also have larger depth values, to be consistent with the intent of this pier.
-Ara
