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LimitState:RING 3.0 is the latest version of the highly successful RING software for the analysis of masonry arch bridges. In use by major consulting engineering companies, universities and bridge owners across the world, LimitState:RING provides engineers with the level of flexibility and capability associated with finite element packages, yet it is as simple and intuitive to use as traditional assessment methods. LimitState:RING has been developed in association with the International Union of Railways (UIC) and the software has been extensively validated against laboratory test data accumulated over the last few decades. LimitState:RING is the only commercial software to implement the rigid block limit analysis technique.

LimitState:RING 3.0 is designed from the ground up with the needs of professional engineers in mind:
- Modern, intuitive user interface
- Multi-ring, multi-span analysis (no need to balance thrusts)
- Use a wide range of built-in and user-defined arch profiles
- Include local defects such as mortar loss and weak masonry
- Undertake support settlement analyses
- View moment, shear and normal force diagrams
- Allocate separate properties to nearsurface and deep fill
- Model reinforcement

LimitState:RING uses rigorous mathematical optimization to directly identify a wide range of potential modes of response, including those involving:
- Hinging and/or masonry failure
- Radial sliding
- Ring separation
- Single or multi-spans
- Support movement

http://www.limitstate.com/ring

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