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BridgeKernel develops scientific computing software for civil engineering, specialised in bridges and civil structures. All tools share common computational kernels (C++), deployed as iOS apps, web apps and desktop software. The same calculation gives the same result on every platform.

Bring civil engineering software up to the standard of today's best software.

• State-of-the-art science in everyday tools: the latest advances in finite elements, strut-and-tie models, and 2D and 3D bridge analysis beyond beam-element models. Methods long confined to research become production tools.
• High performance: optimised computational kernels that deliver results in seconds where conventional tools take minutes, or even hours.
• Modern interfaces, designed to reduce data entry and repetitive tasks, with detailed, illustrated calculation reports generated automatically.
• Tools built for AI: every program runs from the command line or headless, or comes with dedicated skills, so that AI agents can drive it and assist engineers day to day.

Before release, every tool is systematically checked against analytical solutions, recognised benchmarks and results from established professional software. Validation cases are published when each tool launches.

• Finite elements: shells, beams, cables, prestressing, construction staging, creep and shrinkage
• Reinforced, prestressed, steel and composite sections: combined bending, interaction surfaces, cracking, fire
• Strut-and-tie
• Geotechnics and retaining walls
• Bridge hydraulics
• Linear infrastructure: horizontal and vertical alignment, superelevation, earthworks
• Standard bridge design: reinforced and prestressed concrete slab bridges, beam bridges (precast prestressed and reinforced concrete), filler-beam bridges, box culverts and portal frames, composite twin-girder bridges, box-girder bridges, piers, abutments and foundations

• SBA: reinforced concrete sections (App Store)
• RCS: reinforced concrete sections, North American codes (App Store)
• Online calculation of post-tensioned prestressed girders, with design report

• LFEM: finite elements for bridges
• Online bridge calculations: further bridge types
• AI-driven web apps: sections, strut-and-tie, retaining walls, geotechnics