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When we had the need to buy a bridge specialized software, we realized we dont have enough technic
al support in India for any software other than Midas. So we started using Midas and this was the first ti
me we were using a bridge specialized software. The process of getting adapted to Midas was very easy
and quick.
We purchased 5 licenses at a go and now we have 10 licenses. MIDAS recognized that we are one of the
largest users of MIDAS in India. We also sent 2 licenses to Hyderabad office, 2 licenses to Kuwait office and
they are also using and are happy about it.
The best part of MIDAS is the technical support, its very good. We have never asked for training session
because MIDAS has been conducting training sessions very often and invites us for the group training
sessions(workshops) whenever they organize. We also got a chance to interact with the other users during
these sessions. It has been quite an enjoyable experience for us to use MIDAS.
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For PSC bridges and Balanced cantilever bridges MIDAS is very useful and is a very good option.
I am saying from my experience that the GUI is very good and they need to work on the design features as
per Indian code.
The balanced cantilever bridges, the name balanced cantilever bridge is a misnomer. Actually we use
cantilever technique and it is not a balanced cantilever bridge. In such cases we are able to simulate the
actual construction sequence and thats why MIDAS is useful. Also whatever we model, we can see what we
have modelled and is very transparent. And we can get the results wherever and whenever during the
construction stage and during design.
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It is a multipurpose program and is a time saving solution for bridge and other FEM problems.
Midas Civil offers a quality solution within a specified frame. Variety of problems can be handled by a single
tool which makes it stand out from the other software. In fact, modeling is very simple even for the most
complicated problems and results can be extracted in many forms suitable to the user.
For Rail-Soil Interaction(RSI) concern, it is very important to model the bridge and track the configurations
properly and apply proper connections by multi linear springs. RSI module of MIDAS serves this requirement
impressively and provides solutions in very short time.
Lastly, MIDAS support team is really fantastic. They offer support in a quick manner and have troubleshooting
tactics for a variety of issues.
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Now we are working on an international project, which is in Vietnam and they are many complex structures
and special structures. There comes MIDAS which is a perfect solution for special structures. Also our juniors
had already worked with MIDAS and they said this is the best software because modelling is very easy and
the output is very reliable and this is the reason we purchased MIDAS.
Before we were using cumbersome methods for
continuous structures and we have to do long procedure
manually. Now we are very comfortable. We have just
modelled a continuous structure in MIDAS and we will have
direct result there, this is a main reason we have opted for
MIDAS. And it obviously is time saving for us, modelling
time is almost same in all software, sometimes we have to
do in excel and notepad which will have better control. For
the outcome from the model we have to check the analysis
with excel manually and again it depends on the thinking of
the engineer, so chance of human error is zero using
MIDAS because it is doing this automatically and those
results are verified with your tech support team and its a
very good thing.
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Todays world, engineers wants to have previous data & according to them to modify & get the results. People are
not able to calculate hand made. They want the commercial software & want readymade sheets but MIDAS
software is very user friendly & easy to use.
We have bought the midas Civil software in 2010. With a view
that it is an upcoming software, which can be handled a
numerous problem & also encounter an analysis of complicated
bridge or normal bridge where steel construction analysis is
required. One needs to take the account of short term, long
term effects of the concrete, prestressing steel & the different
construction like boundary dynamic analysis, what we heard in
past that it (midas Civil) take cares of all the features & thats
why we bought midas Civil.
This is one of the reason, why we bought a midas software & it
is one of the most user friendly software. Whatever you do in
the screen, you can see in the graphic mode simultaneously
which is a very good feature. Even you can import the cross
sections from the AutoCAD drawing itself & also you can model
as beam properties in the MIDAS. It has a numerous library of
elastic, rigid links which is require to module to the complicated
bearing in structures & keep on changing the boundary
conditions during the different constructions stages & all this
software can do it.
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