I somehow stumbled onto this FOSS project run by the Washington State
Department of Transportation, the other day:
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/alternateroute/
From the About page
<http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/alternateroute/about.htm>:
"The WSDOT Bridge and Structures Office is developing bridge
engineering software tools. We plan to create small OLE Automation
compatible objects that perform discrete engineering calculations
that can be called from spreadsheets, scripts, and full-scale
applications. We plan to create stand-alone desktop applications
that perform design and specification checking for a variety of
bridge types. We plan to create integrated suites of bridge
engineering software tools for "top of deck" to "tip of pile"
analysis. The list goes on and on. We will do all of this work using
Open Source Software concepts and all of the resulting software
products will be Open Source."
The project started in 1999, and has since produced a number of
notable FOSS packages that are in use by state governments all
throughout the US --like "the most widely used, most comprehensive
AASHTO LRFD precast bridge girder design software in the world",
PGSuper:
http://www.pgsuper.com/
Very interesting stuff.
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