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
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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
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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
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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