BRIDGE ENGINEERING SOFTWARE - BETOOLBOX

BEToolbox™ Overview

BEToolbox™ is a collection of WSDOT's legacy bridge engineering tools. This software has been developed for the Alternate Route Project.

The goal of the BEToolbox™ is to bring together our legacy applications into an easy to use and convenient tool without having to re-write the programs. We recognize that many of these legacy tools should be completely re-written from the ground up. That will come later.

BEToolkit™ is licensed with the Alternate Route Open Source License.

Releases
# Current Version: 1.6.0 February 10, 2009

Features
When we had these programs running on our VAX system, they were difficult to access and the documentation was difficult to find. It was extremely difficult to share these programs with anyone outside of WSDOT. The programs were also a pain to use because they required you to jump around between the operating system, text editors, and the executable program. Creating input files was always a chore because you had to first find the coding form and them type the data into some cryptic file format.

The BEToolbox™ is a great compromise between the need to re-write the applications and making them more useful and accessible while expending as little effort as possible.

The BEToolbox™ features the following tools:
BOXGIR Section Properties of box girders
COMGIR Computes bending stresses in the top and bottom flanges of a curved composite girder
CURVEL Computes elevations for alignments with horizontal and vertical curves
GIRCOMP Section Properties of Built-up or Rolled Beam composite steel girders
GPILE Computes individual pile loads in a pile group
PSGDES Precast Girder Design and Analysis, Camber and Deflection calculations, and Handling and Hauling Analysis for the AASHTO Standard Specification
TORSION Computes torsional moments of inertia for closed cell box girder bridges and WSDOT standard prestressed girders.
TRSSMEM Computes geometric properties of built-up truss members.
ULT2AX Ultimate Moment Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Sections subject to biaxial bending and axial load

BEToolbox™ Download Center

Before installing this version please un-install all previous versions of Washington Bridge Foundation Libraries (WBFL), PGSuper, PGSplice, Barlist, and BEToolbox. WSDOT has put together a simple batch file to make this easy. Right-click on this link to download the script. Review the script completely before executing as it may not be appropriate for particular circumstance. This script has to be run for every user account that has installed these software programs.

Version BEToolbox™ BEToolbox™ Source Current Version: 1.6.0 February 10, 2009 Executable Program (10.4 MB) Source Code (2.1 MB) Click for Archive Version Download(s)

Minimum Requirements Current version of the Washington Bridge Foundation Libraries Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1 (Version 5 recommended) Win 95/98 Users - The BEToolbox™ is developed and testing for the Windows NT operating system. We have made some adjustments to the installer that (hopefully) will enable you to run this software on Win 95/98. Please let us know if you have any difficulties so we can address the problem.

Required Development Tools The following commercial development tools where used to build the BEToolbox™ program. FORTRAN DLL's Compaq Digital Fortran Version 6 BETCore.dll Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 SP 3 HTML Notepad or compatible editor HTML Help File Microsoft Html Help Compiler Installer InstallShield 5.53 Professional Edition