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News Release from: Adept Scientific | Subject: Mathcad
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Team on 11 March 2003
Mathcad: Florida Transportation Dept.
Case Study
The Florida Department of Transportation has selected Mathsoft's Mathcad to perform and manage design calculations.
The Structures Design Office within the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will now standardise on Mathsoft's Mathcad software The FDOT now has Mathcad available to all its structural engineers for use in creating, updating and verifying the calculations behind the critical infrastructure of the state
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 19 Feb 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The FDOT employs more than 100 structural engineers and is responsible for design work associated with 6,319 bridges as well as 4,000 overhead sign structures and more than 10,000 signal structures.
With these heavy responsibilities, the FDOT structural engineers must constantly be performing, revising and approving calculations, often based on the work of others.
To be effective, these calculations must be precise and easily communicated across a department, up the management chain and to outside parties.
Using Mathcad templates, the FDOT can distribute fully documented analyses between designers.
Mathcad lets the engineers perform, update and share calculations in their intuitive, maths-based format, providing instant context and enduring utility.
"In our department, one major responsibility is to author and publish the structural engineering software specific to Florida's infrastructure needs," said Andre Pavlov, senior structural engineer in the FDOT's Structures Design Office.
"We perform the calculations with Mathcad and capture the logic and reasoning as well as the results.
Now engineers have access to documented math detail and can avoid having to reinvent the wheel every time a design needs to be created or reviewed." "Responsible for the creation and maintenance of tens of thousands of highway miles and more than six thousand bridges, the Florida Department of Transportation is in a situation where its work is critical to the well-being and everyday functions of all Florida residents and out-of-state travellers," said Allen Razdow, senior vice president of strategic planning at Mathsoft.
"By standardising on Mathcad, the agency is providing its engineers with the tools they need to perform and share critical calculations and design processes and ultimately complete projects more effectively and with less chance of error." Mathcad is supplied and supported in the UK, Ireland, Denmark and Norway by Adept Scientific plc. Request a free brochure from Adept Scientific ...
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