I’m planning a steel composite railway according to the latest tutorials from Softisik (Composite Bridge 2025 and Railwabridge 2025). The loads were defined with Teddy as in the example, and the input in SofiPlus is identical. However, when I want to calculate the ULS check and enter the respective load cases, including the generated container load, it takes all the loads saved in Sofiplus, but not the container load generated by Teddy input from the load groups. Now, in the live load results, I have temperature, settlement, and pavement, but the traffic loads with the generated container loads are missing because it hasn’t imported them yet.
I have checked your MAXIMA definitions in the SSD file. There are two topics that are important for action combination rules and their superpositions:
The task Vorkombination Lg 11-24 has to be calculated after the calculation of the single load cases (task Berechnung Einzellastfälle).
MAXIMA needs for the superposition the internal forces and moments for the superpositions.
In the task Vorkombination Lg 11-24 the superpositions are done for the beams and QUAD elements and not for the design elements DSLN.
Therefore there are no resulting load cases from the action RAIL for the action combinations with their superpositions in the task Superpositioning. In this task you make the superpositions only for the design elements DSLN.
Hint: For the tracing of the corresponding load cases of the actions during the superpositions we recommend to use the MAXIMA Tracer. More information is available in the MAXIMA manual → record TRAC.
With kind regards
Sabine Fahrendholz
Senior Product Manager
Thank you for your response! But how can I make the created load cases visible as internal forces in the graphical viewer, they are not notaded as loadcases there, so i cant see there impact?
for the resulting load cases generated by MAXIMA, the internal forces and moments can be shown graphically using the program Graphic. The program Viewer does not show internal forces and moments.
With kind regards
Sabine Fahrendholz
Senior Product Manager
But how can I make the created load cases visible as internal forces in the graphical viewer, they are not notaded as loadcases there, so i cant see there impact?