Transferring results of beam elements to design elements

Hello,
I am modelling a composite bridge and therefore have three composite girders and I want to design them as design elements. I have already transferred all relevant beam forces to the design elements but I just ain’t able to transfer the beam forces of the traffic loading with ella, despite I have seen this in a tutorial, where they just have transferred the forces form ella with a simple code like this:

prog decreator urs:27.1
head Übergabe Verkehrslasten an dsln

lc (101 112 1)
lc (101 112 1)

end

But when I am trying to transfer the forces I get the following warnings and errors:

++++ warning no. 40144 in program initializeBeamForceTransfer
Design Element x: Superposition load case xxx could not be transferred

++++ warning no. 40141 in program mergeForces
Design Element x: At loadcase xxx no forces were found to integrate.

I know that normally no superposition loadcases can be transferred with decreator but in the tutorial they just did this. So how am I able to transfer the forces from ella to my design elements?
Other question: do I have to design the beams with decreator, when I have modelled the girders as composite beams and modelled a dummy area in the same place of the concrete plate to put the loads in the tranversal direction?

Thanks a lot for the help!

I have uploaded my sofistik file here too :slight_smile:

17001PT_BLP_Passerbrücke_MeBo_Vorbemessung_3_Träger_gerade.sofistik (198.8 KB)

I’ve got the same issue. @Luk_Plan, did you ever figure out what the problem was? Anyone else here know how to fix it?

Hello Ada! Yes, the problem was, that in this tutorial they are using Sofistik 2025 while I was using Sofistik 2024… It’s just possible to do that in the 2025 Version. With Sofistik 2024 you have to follow the 2024 workflow for composite bridges (it exists a tutorial for that) which includes the load stepping method for the traffic loads.