CCNEWS - CIVIL ENGINEERING & SURVEYING SHAREWARE/PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE No. 4, June 6, 1987 A. GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED DISTRIBUTORS 1. MCTRANS CENTER University of Florida 346 Weil Hall Gainesville, Florida 32611 or call the McTrans Hotline (904) 392-0378 McTrans serves as a center for technology exchange for microcomputer software in the areas of transportation under the purview of the FHWA, by distributing public domain software and providing technical assistance in using the software. Most offerings are available for $2 to $5, with documentation costing $5 to $30. Offerings include the following: JCP-1, ELSYMS, NULOAD, ILLI-PAVE: Pavement analysis WSPRO, HY8: Water surface profile, culvert analysis NIS, PMS: Needs Inventory, Pavement Management System Traffic engineering: signal timing, street flow, inters. cap. 2. AMERICAN PUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATION 1313 East 60th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 APWA is making available, for $50, SANITARY and CESTORM, hydrology and hydraulics software by the U. S. Army Construction Research Laboratory. They perform sanitary and storm sewer network analysis. These programs are not shareware or public domain, but are so affordable they don't have to be. NEW> 3. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Hydrologic Research Laboratory 8060 13th Street, Room 530 Silver Spring, MD 20910 The public domain programs DAMBRK, SMPDBK, BREACH, and NETWORK, developed by the NWS for flood routing and analyzing dam breaks, are available for $30 each. Executable code, FORTRAN source code and sample data sets are included. Send check payable to "Department of Commerce, NOAA" to the attention of Janice Lewis. B. PRIVATE DISTRIBUTORS 1. CIVIL ENGINEERING SHAREWARE P. O. Box 472 Lee's Summit, MO 64063 The following mainframe public domain programs have been converted to be MS-DOS compatible by this firm, and are available for $35: PSRM: Penn. State Runoff Model HEC-1: Corps of Engineers Flood Hydrograph Package HEC-2: Corps of Engineers Water Surface Profile Program XSRAIN: Colorado State Univ. program for flood hydrographs for ungaged watersheds BREACH: National Weather Service breached earthen dam discharge hydrograph STABL4: Purdue University slope stability program WEAP: Wave Equation Analysis of Piles, Case-Western University COM52: Univ. of Texas, analyzes lateral loads on piers and piles PLNELAS: Plane-Elastic analysis of two dimensional structure by the finite element method 2DFRAME, 3DFRAME: Analyze frames and trusses, Vanderbilt Univ. For more detailed descriptions of software and a good example of the shareware concept, write to the above address. 2. PUBLIC (SOFTWARE) LIBRARY P. O. Box 35705 Houston, TX 77235-5705 This is a general purpose library with PD/SW software in every possible category. Software is available for $5 per diskette. Of special interest to CE's and LS's are: MR. BILL: billing program for attys, archs, & engrs CPM and Gantt Chart project management software LOTUS 1-2-3 financial and accounting templates Within the new engineering section are: LOTUS 1-2-3 gas, oil and geology templates ALLWET: pressure pipe network analysis program HC2ENTRY: prompted data entry program for HEC-2 SURVEY: traverse, COGO and stakeout program NEW> CIR212: highway capacity analysis from U. C. Berkeley, CA While there are some better-known PD/SW libraries around, once you have read their newsletter (write for one, the first one is free), there will be no doubt in your mind which one is best. NEW> 3. CHRISTOPHER M. STONE, P. E. C/O CNOBG APO, NY 09283 Mr. Stone represents a different concept in shareware, in that he wishes to trade programs he has written for programs written by other engineers. His most recent program, BIFOOT, is a spread footing design program which was the National Grand Prize winner in the Software Design Competition sponsored by the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute. His programs are written in BASIC and are furnished with the source code. Other programs include: stress analysis for 2-D frames, seismic rigidity analysis, steel column and beam design, concrete column and beam design, retaining wall design, masonry wall design, and composite beam design. All programs are written to use metric units, but are easily converted to english units. BIFOOT is in metric and english units. C. ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARDS If you have a modem you can download much general-purpose software from many electronic bulletin boards around the country. To date, I know of the following BBS's that offer CE & LS software: 1. EBBS (Engineering Bulletin Board System) PO Box 75537 Los Angeles, CA 90075 (805) 252-4182, 1200/2400 baud 8 bits no parity, 24 hrs You can log on and read or leave messages for free, but only subscribers ($75 individual, $150 company) can download software, which is in three categories: (1) civil-structural, (2) mechanical and (3) electrical. A catalogue is available by writing to the above address or leaving a message on the BBS. There are currently 132 civil/structural programs available: STRUCTURAL software for: retaining wall design, finite element analysis, concrete beam, slab, wall, column, footing design, diaphragm analysis, truss analysis; steel plate girder, wood members, continuous beams, more. Most programs are Symphony/123 templates, some are basic programs. The sysop/author has been invited, and has submitted, a paper and presentation on "Applications of Computer Spreadsheets in Structural Engineering" for the 1987 ASCE Structures Congress. SURVEYSOFT: traverse, COGO, and stakeout program VERCURVE: 1-2-3 vertical curve design template for roads NEW> CORD, MERCATOR, ANGLERR, SOL309: surveying utilities CIR212: highway capacity analysis from Univ. Cal. Berkeley ASPHALT: asphaltic pavement design program, AASHO method ALLWET: pressure pipe network analysis program PNENTRY: prompted data entry program for Kentucky Pipes HEC-2: Corps of Engineers water surface profile program HC2ENTRY: prompted data entry program for HEC-2 HYDRO: 1-2-3 open channel flow and runoff coeff. templates NEW> GABIONRW: 1-2-3 gabion retaining wall design template PIPE-13D: size water mains for NFPA 13D res. fire sprinklers NEW> WSM: 1-2-3 and SC4 templ. for analyzing water system rates PROJ-MGT: 1-2-3 bid tabulation, constr. progress templates NEW> MR-BILL: Time and billing program for professional services NEW> IPM: Critical Path Method project scheduler NEW> 2. PROFESSIONAL RBBS SYSTEM Sparks, Nevada (702) 356-1048, 300/1200/2400 baud, 8 bits no parity, 24 hrs This BBS has a full range of general purpose and utility PD/SW similar to the Public (Software) Library, and in addition has directories for AutoCAD, general engineering, traffic, hydrology, and mapping and cogo. Some of its offerings are: AutoCAD drawings, fonts and symbols; math and equation analysis, statistical analysis, chemistry analysis, HP calculator, 1-2-3 retaining wall, truss design, SPRINKLR (PIPE- 13D above), 1-2-3 channel flow, traffic signal timing, great circle route and SURVEY, CIR212, HC2ENTRY, PNENTRY, and WSM as described above. Registration is free. NEW> 3. COMP-U-EASE South S. F. Bay area, California (408) 286-8332, 300/1200/2400 baud, 8 bits no parity, 24 hrs This BBS, like Pro. BBS, has a full range of PD/SW software, but also has a separate conference/message section for engineering, with directories for CAD, Engineering, Scientific, and Misc. Some of its offerings are: AutoCAD info, drawings, fonts and symbols; statistical analysis, data/curve fitting; GeoSoft demos for beam, columns, settlement, slope stability; WES rigid and flexible pavement design for roads and airports; and SURVEY, HC2ENTRY and PNENTRY as described above. Registration on Comp-U-Ease is free. CCVIEWS The purpose of Civil Comp News is to help users, distributors, and authors of PD/SW software for civil engineers and land surveyors keep in touch with each other. Civil Comp is not a software distributor. Hopefully, software authors will note friendly sources of distribution and will take advantage of them. If you know of any other sources, please let me know. Messages may be left for me on EBBS. Some of the general purpose PD/SW software, such as word processing, utilities, communication, etc. have been deleted from CCNEWS. This is not because they shouldn't be considered for use, but simply because they are present in every PD/SW library and BBS, and listing them for each would be redundant. I suspect that the BBS libraries will aggressively download and upload engineering/surveying PD/SW from each other as well, and I will try to figure out a simple but complete method of describing their offerings, even as they grow. I am posting the latest update of CCNEWS on EBBS, where it may be read by subscribers and non-subscribers alike by entering "E" at the Main Menu. EBBS will also keep the most recent four issues in the Civil/Structural Files section, from which it can be downloaded or (T)yped to your screen. Also, if you download this file, feel free to upload it to another BBS to help spread the CCNEWS. Rich Wadsworth Civil Comp 320 Eureka Canyon Road Watsonville, CA 95076