CCNEWS - CIVIL ENGINEERING & SURVEYING SHAREWARE/PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE No. 3, May 10, 1987 1. MCTRANS CENTER University of Florida 346 Weil Hall Gainesville, Florida 32611 or call the McTrans Hotline (904) 392-0378 McTrans is to serve 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 at minimal cost to the user and providing technical assistance in using the software. 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, intersection cap. Write or call for more information. 2. 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. 3. AMERICAN PUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATION 1313 East 60th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 APWA is making available, for $50, the following hydrology and hydraulics software by the U. S. Army Constr. Research Laboratory: SANITARY Sanitary sewer network analysis CESTORM Storm sewer network analysis These programs are not shareware or public domain, but are so affordable they don't have to be. Write for more information. 4. PUBLIC (SOFTWARE) LIBRARY P. O. Box 35705 Houston, TX 77235-5705 This library has an outstanding newsletter, which includes comments from both authors and users of its offerings. Many educational tips are also included. A wide range of software is available. Of interest to CE's and LS's are: LOTUS 123 financial and accounting templates NEW> LOTUS 123 gas, oil and geology templates ALLWET, pressure pipe network analysis program NEW> HC2ENTRY, prompted data entry program for HEC-2 NEW> SURVEYSOFT, traverse, COGO and stakeout program PC-WRITE, full fledged word processor EZ-FORMS, fill out and create forms CAD and drawing programs DOS utilities PRINTER and plotting utilities PROCOMM, communications program (for modem) CPM and Gantt Chart project management software MR. BILL, billing program for attys, archs, & engrs After receiving HC2ENTRY and SURVEYSOFT from me, P(S)L promptly created an engineering section in their library. While there are many better-known PD/SW libraries around, once you have read their newsletter (write for the first one, it's free), there will be no doubt in your mind which one is best. 5. ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARDS If you have a modem you can download much general-purpose software from many electronic bulletin boards around the country. What you are probably interested in are BBS's that offer CE & LS software. To date, I know of the following: a. 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. The following CE/LS software is 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 SURVEYSOFT, traverse, COGO, and stakeout program VERCURVE, LOTUS 123 vertical curve design template for roads ASPHALT, asphaltic pavement design program ALLWET, pressure pipe network analysis program HEC-2, Corps of Engineers water surface profile program HC2ENTRY, prompted data entry program for HEC-2 NEW> HYDRO, LOTUS 123 open channel flow and runoff coeff. templates NEW> PIPE-13D, size water mains for NFPA 13D res. fire sprinklers NEW> PNENTRY, prompted data entry program for Kentucky Pipes NEW> CIR212, highway capacity analysis from Univ. Cal. Berkeley NEW> PROJ-MGT, LOTUS 123 bid tabulation, constr. progress templates REVIEW - SANITARY ----------------- This program, which is furnished by APWA for $50, is not SW or PD, but is quite affordable. I use it to model the sanitary sewer system for a small sanitary district adjoining Watsonville. It is written in FORTRAN and should run on version 1.1 or higher of MS-DOS or PC-DOS. It utilizes an 8087 if available. 256K RAM is required. SANITARY will handle up to 500 pipes and 200-400 nodes, depending on system memory. It can be run in batch mode or interactive mode. Users of other FORTRAN programs are familiar with batch mode, where the user must create a properly formatted input file with a text editor, then run the main program, which creates an output file to print to screen or printer. Creating the input file can be time consuming. The interactive mode of SANITARY is very welcome. A data file must still be created with a text editor, that contains population/peaking factors, units of measure, infiltration rate, flow per capita, and manning's N. Interactive mode then lets you input pipe data, including pipe length and size, six shapes of conduit, alpha-numeric node labels (i.e. "MH-1", etc.), "N" value other than default, population tributary to that pipe, and so forth. Point flows may be entered instead of population, if desired. Lift stations may also be specified. It is NOT necessary to sequentially label nodes as is required in some other sewer network software. This is convenient for entering already named nodes in existing systems. It is command driven rather than menu driven, but a command such as ADD results in prompts for adjacent node ID and pipe data. Multiple subsystems may be created with different default values. Automatic redesign may be requested based on percent pipe capacity criteria. For example, requesting redesign at 50% results in a suggested percent size increase for pipes determined to be running over half full. After creating and saving the data file, SANITARY is run to analyze the system. The output file lists pipe information, quantity of flow, velocity, and suggested percent size increase if redesign is required. I find SANITARY to be completely adequate for the district I consult for, which has 130 pipes and 500 connections. I recently analyzed a proposed annexation to the district for impact on the system by simply entering a population and length of unmodeled pipe (for infiltration calculations) to an existing node and running it. Every downstream pipe was reanalyzed in less than a minute. SANITARY was written by Michael Fuerst, the author of ALLWET, who is now developing a more powerful sewer network program. A shareware version of his new program will be available. It will certainly be a welcome addition to the growing list of CE/LS PD/SW. BULLETIN -------- You may have noticed that Dr. Blair has been removed from CCNEWS. I received a note from him that he will probably begin furnishing the NWS software mentioned in CCNEWS2 just to his firm's clients. He suggested I contact NWS directly, and I have done so to determine the availability and particulars regarding DAMBRK, DWOPER, and NETWORK, which will be reported in a future issue of CCNEWS. You may also have noticed the LogOn BBS is no longer listed. The reason is that LogOn has not shown any interest in posting to its directory either CCNEWS or PD/SW software I have uploaded to it. It is an excellent source of other PD/SW software; however, the readers of CCNEWS will probably find similar BBS's in their area. Each issue will show "NEW>" next to each addition for the month, to make it easier for the reader to find changes. Note that not all software marked that way is new to the newsletter, but it IS new for that particular source. 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. If you know of any other sources, please let me know. I plan to keep the latest update of CCNEWS on EBBS (listed above), where it may be read by subscribers and non-subscribers alike by entering "E" at the Main Menu. EBBS will also have the most recent four issues in the Civil/Structural Files section, where it can be downloaded from or (T)yped to your screen. Many thanks to Andrew Skwara of EBBS for making this possible! 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