On Saturday 21st March 2015, the annual Irish Concrete Society Awards took place and Shay Murtagh Precast were announced as Winners of the 3rd International Award “Reading Elevated Platform Viaduct”.
Category: Bridge Beams
Shay Murtagh Precast manufacture prestressed concrete bridge beams, solid slab, beam, slab and voided decks to eurocode standards for rail and motorway bridges.
Bridge Beam Manual App Now Available
Bridge Engineers Can Now Take Their Tablets – Shay Murtagh Bridge Beam Manual Now Available for IOS and Android Engineers will now be able to consult Shay Murtagh Precast’s invaluable Bridge Beam Manual on their mobile devices whilst on site or on the move, without needing to return to their offices. This popular and well-used […]
Liam McGovern Launches Bridge Beam Technical Manual Edition 3
Liam McGovern, Shay Murtagh’s Technical Director, launched the latest Bridge Beam Technical Manual Edition 3 with BIM at the Infrarail 2014 Exhibition at Earls Court in London earlier this year. In this interview, he stresses that Shay Murtagh Precast is one of very few companies to offer not only a full range of precast concrete […]
New Edition of Bridge Beam Technical Manual – Now with BIM Launched Today
Liam McGovern, Director of Shay Murtagh Precast officially launched the 3rd edition of the Bridge Beam Technical Manual today at Infrarail 2014, Earls Court, London.
Launch of Edition 3 Bridge Beam Technical Manual
Our technical team has been working diligently over the last number of months to bring you the next stage of our Bridge Beam Manual and are delighted to announce that we will be launching it next Tuesday 20th May at the Infrarail Show in Earls Court in London.
Design Engineer Video Blog Question 13
Steve briefly explains the layout, structure and detail included for bridge beam design as based on our manual launched in 2011. He also points out significant areas to be noted such as the Designers Checklist.
Design Engineer Video Blog 5 – Bridge Beam Design
This week, Steve explains different aspects which aid optimisation of pre-stressed bridge beam design such as high strength concrete, de-bonding and exposure class. He explains crack width checks effect on such design and where applies.
Design Engineer Video Blog Question 4 – Concrete Bridge Beams
This week, Steve explains the design codes used by Shay Murtagh Precast in designing prestressed concrete bridge beams – Eurocodes and British Standard and related annexes.
Design Engineer Video Blog Question 3 – Bridge Beam Design
In this weeks video, Steve explains the typical steps to bridge beam design involving structure definition, load and load effect, strand and links layout, stress and sheer limit checks.
Design Engineer Video Blog Question 2 – Bridge Beam Design
In this weeks video, Steve explains the benefits of high strength concrete based on stress limit check in design and what the function of the grade of the concrete brings to design, span, and strength of bridge or other beams.