General

General staged-construction tips are as follows:

• Joints are added in their undeformed position, which means that meaning the deflections reported deflection for newly added joints in are not cumulative. See page Additional information is available in the Accounting for deformed shape in staged construction for additional information.Used "Named Property Sets" to change sections or end releases article.

• Sections and end releases may be changed from stage to stage using the Named Property Sets option.

Staged

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construction and the Bridge Modeler

Staged-construction tips which concern the Bridge Modeler are as follows:

• Mixed modeling – Staged construction functions with objects created using either the Bridge Modeler or standard controls. While the BrIM model may be is typically sufficient for typical conventional and regular bridges, it may need to be supplemented by manual modeling for more enhancement through manual modeling may be necessary for complex and irregular structures, or to model a change of the in boundary conditions. It is not necessary to convert BrIM object to A parametric model with manual enhancement is said to be a mixed model.

• Construction scheduler – BrIM objects need not be converted into an unlinked model before using the Construction construction scheduler. The construction scheduler is essentially a more user-friendly simplified way to define staged-construction analysis load case and the load cases. The same rules as for staged construction analysis apply.