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PSC-I Girder Design Program
Master PSC I-Girder Bridge Design through a structured program covering bridge engineering fundamentals, design calculations, relevant IRC standards, practical design exercises, and a comprehensive capstone project. Designed for civil engineering students and engineers who want to build practical bridge design skills.
3monthsDuration
140+ HoursTotal Hours
25 Live SessionsLive Sessions
About This Program
Let's be totally honest. Companies do not hire you because you have a degree; they hire you because you can solve their design problems.
Right now, India is building flyovers, expressways, and bridges at a record-breaking pace. Yet, thousands of civil graduates are unemployed because college textbooks still teach obsolete methods, while actual design firms use complex 3D software and advanced regulatory codes like IRC:112....
What You'll Be Able to Do:
✓Design PSC I-Girder and PSC Box Girder Bridges in accordance with relevant IRC standards
✓Perform bridge design calculations and construction stage analysis for prestressed concrete bridges
✓Understand the complete PSC bridge design workflow from planning to final design documentation
✓Complete a comprehensive PSC I-Girder Bridge Design project to build practical engineering skills
Requirements & Target Audience
- Unemployed Civil Graduates: Freshers who want to bypass low-paying data-entry or generic jobs and enter the elite core structural field.
- Site Engineers looking for an Office Role: Engineers tired of erratic site shifts, remote locations, and low growth who want to transition to a corporate design office.
- CAD Drafters upgrading their skills: Traditional 2D detailers who want to learn 3D global analysis to boost their career growth and salary.
- Final Year UG/PG Students: Ambitious students who want a genuine, high-quality capstone project that will make them stand out during campus placements.
- Government/ Private engineers: if you are already working as a designer but wants to enhance your skills with a complete manual and software solutions of bridge design
Course content
7 sections • 25 Live Sessions sessions • 140+ Hours total length
01. Project Kickoff & Design Basis Report (DBR)
- Introduction to the Bridge Lifecycle: Understanding how a project goes from a proposal to an actual working drawing on site.
02. Section Properties & Geometric Calculations
- Section Property Computations: Calculating area, moment of inertia, and section modulus (Z) for I-girders.
- Effective Flange Width: Applying standard code rules to determine how much of the deck slab acts as the top flange of your I-girder.
03. IRC:6 Load Calculations & Combinations
- Dead Loads & SIDL Matrix: Compiling the weights of the concrete beam, wet deck slab, crash barriers, and utility lines.
- IRC:6 Live Load Optimization: Placing Class 70R and Class A vehicles at critical positions to create maximum bending and shearing stress.
- Load Combinations: Merging dead loads, live loads, impact factors, and environmental forces under Ultimate (ULS) and Serviceability (SLS) limits.
04. MIDAS Civil 3D Modeling from Absolute Zero
- Nodes & Elements Geometry: Generating the physical structural layout of the bridge using basic coordinates and frame elements.
- Section Making & Material Assignment: Inputting the custom I-girder shape and applying time-dependent concrete properties.
- Prestress planning and detailing: How we model prestressing tendons in a MIDAS model.
- Elastic & Rigid Links: Connecting the deck slab elements to the longitudinal girders to simulate perfect composite structural behaviour.
- Boundary Conditions & Bearings: Simulating physical POT/PTFE bridge bearings (pinned, sliding, and expansion arrangements).
05. Construction Stages & Result Analysis
- Construction Stage Analysis (CSA): How we make constructions stages based on real life scenarios. Setting up time-dependent steps in MIDAS: Prestressing in Girder -> Deck slab casting -> SIDL Application -> Loads for long term i.e. 100 years.
- Live Load Application & Analysis Run: We will check how the structure behaves when live load runs over it.
- Extracting Forces: Reading and validating Stresses, Bending Moment Diagrams (BMD), Shear Force Diagrams (SFD), and then comparing with codal provisions.
06. Prestressing Details & Loss Computations
- Tendon Profile Optimization: Designing the shape of the post-tensioning cables (parabolic and draped coordinates) to follow the bending moment shape.
- Immediate Prestress Losses: Calculating tension drops due to friction along the duct, anchor wedge slip, and elastic concrete shortening.
- Long-Term Prestress Losses: Computing long-term drops caused by concrete creep deformation, drying shrinkage, and relaxation of steel strands.
07. IRC:112 Structural Design Checks
- Serviceability Limit State (SLS) Checks: Keeping daily concrete stresses within bounds and calculating surface crack widths to protect steel from rust.
- Ultimate Limit State (ULS) Checks: Verifying total structural safety against bending moment and shear failure.
- Bearing Load Estimation: Extracting the maximum vertical and horizontal reaction forces to hand over to the bearing manufacturer and pier/column designer.
Logistics & Schedule
Next CohortJune 15, 2026
Batch SizeMax 40 Students
Class TimeSat & Sun, 10–12 AM
Student feedback
"I was earning ₹28,000 a month and scared to spend ₹60K on a course. Six months later I was at STUP earning three times that. The ROI calculation was not even close. The BrIM module specifically — nobody else teaches that in India at this level."
"I had struggled with STAAD and connection design in the past. This program fixed that gap. I didn't just learn the theory — I was confident. My instructor reviewed my drawings line-by-line, exactly how a PM would on a real project."