Digital Model Applied to the Fils Bridge Design

Performance efforts for the planning of new traffic roads have been enhanced continuously during recent years. From the first planning stage onwards, the design engineer has to fulfill a number of new, additional task. By way of a big project of the German Federal Railways (DB) a large bridge of the planned new construction section Stuttgart - Ulm across the Fils valley in the area of the Swabian Alb, an account is given of modern working- and planning techniques, assisted by computer-aided design (CAD), as applied by the design engineer.