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                                No. 6, August 6, 1987
      
      A.   GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED DISTRIBUTORS
           
           1.   MCTRANS CENTER
                University of Florida
                346 Weil Hall
                Gainesville, Florida 32611
                or call the McTrans Hotline (904) 392-0378
                
                McTrans  serves   as  a  center  for  technology  exchange  for
                microcomputer software in the areas of transportation under the
                purview of the FHWA, by distributing public domain software and
                providing technical  assistance in  using the  software.   Most
                offerings are  available  for  $2  to  $5,  with  documentation
                costing $5 to $30.  Subscription to an excellent newsletter and
                catalog is free.  Offerings include the following:
                
                JCP-1, ELSYMS, NULOAD, ILLI-PAVE:  Pavement analysis
                WSPRO, HY8:  Water surface profile, culvert analysis
                NIS, PMS:  Needs Inventory, Pavement Management System
                Traffic engineering: signal timing, street flow, inters. cap.
                     
           NEW> McTRANS NOW CARRIES SHAREWARE!!!  New offerings include:
                COllierGO:    Full featured menu and prompt-driven COGO program
                PC-STRAN:     1, 2 or 3 dimensional structural analysis program
                              for member structures
                PC-BRIDGE:    Continuous beam structural analysis for bridges
                PAY ESTIMATES: Project cost manager for construction project
           
           2.   AMERICAN PUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATION
                1313 East 60th Street
                Chicago, Illinois 60637
           
                APWA is  making  available,  for  $50,  SANITARY  and  CESTORM,
                hydrology  and   hydraulics  software   by  the   U.  S.   Army
                Construction Research  Laboratory.   They perform  sanitary and
                storm sewer network analysis.  These programs are not shareware
                or public domain, but are so affordable they don't have to be.
                
           3.   NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                Hydrologic Research Laboratory
                8060 13th Street, Room 530
                Silver Spring, MD 20910
                
                The public domain programs DAMBRK, SMPDBK, BREACH, and NETWORK,
                developed by  the NWS  for  flood  routing  and  analyzing  dam
                breaks, are  available for  $30 each.  Executable code, FORTRAN
                source code  and sample  data sets  are included.   Send  check
                payable to  "Department of  Commerce, NOAA" to the attention of
                Janice Lewis.
      
      B.   PRIVATE DISTRIBUTORS
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           1.   CIVIL ENGINEERING SHAREWARE
                P. O. Box 472
                Lee's Summit, MO 64063
                
                The  following  mainframe  public  domain  programs  have  been
                converted to  be  MS-DOS  compatible  by  this  firm,  and  are
                available for $35:
                
                PSRM:     Penn. State Runoff Model
                HEC-1:    Corps of Engineers Flood Hydrograph Package
                HEC-2:    Corps of Engineers Water Surface Profile Program
                XSRAIN:   Colorado State Univ. program for flood hydrographs
                BREACH:   N.W.S. breached earthen dam discharge hydrograph
                STABL4:   Purdue University slope stability program
                WEAP:     Wave Equation Analysis of Piles, Case-Western Univ.
                COM52:    Univ. of Texas, analyzes lateral loads on piers/piles
                PLNELAS:  Plane-Elastic analysis of 2D structure by finite
                          element method
                2DFRAME, 3DFRAME:  Analyze frames and trusses, Vanderbilt Univ.
                
                For more detailed descriptions of software and a good example
                of the shareware concept, write to the above address.
           
           2.   PUBLIC (SOFTWARE) LIBRARY
                P. O. Box 35705
                Houston, TX 77235-5705
      
                This is  a general purpose library with PD/SW software in every
                possible category.   Software is available for $5 per diskette.
                Of special interest to CE's and LS's are:
                     
                MR. BILL: billing program for attys, archs, & engrs
                CPM and Gantt Chart project management software
                LOTUS 1-2-3 financial and accounting templates
              Within the engineering section are:
                1-2-3 ENGRG: Gas, oil and geology templates
           NEW> 1-2-3 ENGRG #2: Gabion retaining wall, open channel flow,
                          rational comp. "C", project mgt, water co. rates
                ALLWET:   Pressure pipe network analysis program
           NEW> PIPES:    Prompted data entry programs for HEC-2 & Kentucky
                          pipes, NFPA 13D sprinkler pipe design program
                SURVEY:   Traverse, COGO and stakeout program
                ROADS:    Highway capacity analysis from U. C. Berkeley, CA,
           NEW>           AASHO asphalt pavement design
           NEW> HPE:      Finite element stress analysis program
           NEW> SPIA:     Math scratchpad for functions
                
                While there  are some better-known PD/SW libraries around, once
                you have read their newsletter (write for one, the first one is
                free), there will be no doubt in your mind which one is best.
      
           3.   CHRISTOPHER M. STONE, P. E.
                C/O CNOBG
                APO, NY 09283
                
                Mr. Stone  represents a different concept in shareware, in that
                he wishes to trade programs he has written for programs written
                by other  engineers.   His most  recent program,  BIFOOT, is  a
                spread footing  design program  which was  the  National  Grand
                Prize winner  in the  Software Design  Competition sponsored by
                the Concrete  Reinforcing Steel  Institute.   His programs  are
                written in BASIC and are furnished with the source code.  Other
                programs include:   stress  analysis for  2-D  frames,  seismic
                rigidity analysis,  steel  column  and  beam  design,  concrete
                column and  beam design,  retaining wall  design, masonry  wall
                design, and composite beam design.  All programs are written to
                use metric  units, but  are easily  converted to english units.
                BIFOOT is in metric and english units.
                
      C.   ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARDS
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           If you  have a  modem you can download much general-purpose software
           from many electronic bulletin boards around the country.  To date, I
           know of the following BBS's that offer CE & LS software:
           
           1.   EBBS (Engineering Bulletin Board System)
                PO Box 75537
                Los Angeles, CA 90075
                (805) 252-4182, 1200/2400 baud 8 bits no parity, 24 hrs
      
                You can  log on  and read  or leave messages for free, but only
                subscribers  ($75   individual,  $150   company)  can  download
                software.   A catalogue  is available  by writing  to the above
                address or  leaving a  message on  the BBS.   Programs are also
                available by  mail.   MAJOR CHANGES ARE PROPOSED FOR EBBS!  The
                subscription  fee  will  still  entitle  users  to  proprietary
                structural software,  but all  PD/SW programs will be available
                without subscription, as well as access to EIGHT (8) conference
                sections for  civil and  structural topics.   The  new BBS will
                probably be  online by  September.   There  are  currently  143
                civil/structural programs available:
                
                STRUCTURAL software  for: retaining wall design, finite element
                     analysis,  concrete  beam,  slab,  wall,  column,  footing
                     design, diaphragm  analysis, truss  analysis; steel  plate
                     girder,  wood  members,  continuous  beams,  more.    Most
                     programs  are   Symphony/123  templates,  some  are  basic
                     programs.     The  sysop/author   has  prepared,  and  had
                     accepted, a  paper on  "Analysis and  design of Reinforced
                     Concrete Members"  for the 1988 ACI conference on STATE OF
                     THE ART COMPUTER APPLICATIONS.
                SURVEYSOFT: traverse, COGO, and stakeout program
           NEW> CC-SURV:    Test ver. 0.70 of Generic CADD/COGO utility
                VERCURVE:   1-2-3 vertical curve design template for roads
                CORD, MERCATOR, ANGLERR, SOL309: surveying utilities
                CIR212:   highway capacity analysis from Univ. Cal. Berkeley
                ASPHALT:  asphaltic pavement design program, AASHO method
                ALLWET:   pressure pipe network analysis program
                PNENTRY:  prompted data entry program for Kentucky Pipes
           NEW> ST1ENTRY: prompted data entry program for APWA's CESTORM
                HC2ENTRY: prompted data entry program for HEC-2
                HEC-2:    Corps of Engineers water surface profile program
                HYDRO:    1-2-3 open channel flow and runoff coeff. templates
                GABIONRW: 1-2-3 gabion retaining wall design template
                PIPE-13D: size water mains for NFPA 13D res. fire sprinklers
                WSM:      1-2-3 and SC4 templ. for analyzing water system rates
                PROJ-MGT: 1-2-3 bid tabulation, constr. progress templates
                MR-BILL:  Time and billing program for professional services
                IPM:      Critical Path Method project scheduler
           NEW> SECTION ON ENGINEERING SUPPORT PROGRAMS:  including HP style
                calculators, equation solvers, unit conversion, curve fitting
           
           2.   The following  BBS's have  a full  range of general purpose and
                utility PD/SW  similar to the Public (Software) Library, and in
                addition have  directories for CAD, engineering, scientific and
                other engineering  categories.   Some of  their offerings  are:
                AutoCAD  drawings,   fonts  and   symbols;  math  and  equation
                analysis,  statistical   analysis,   chemistry   analysis,   HP
                calculator, 1-2-3 retaining wall, truss design; and some of the
                software listed  on EBBS,  as well  as other programs unique to
                each  bulletin   board.     They  are   all  worth   exploring.
                Registration is free except where noted.
                
                PROFESSIONAL RBBS SYSTEM
                Sparks, Nevada
                (702) 356-1048, 300/1200/2400 baud, 8 bits no parity, 24 hrs
                Several engineering file sections
                
                COMP-U-EASE
                South S. F. Bay area, California
                (408) 286-8332, 300/1200/2400 baud, 8 bits no parity, 24 hrs
                Engineering file sections and engineering conference
                
                CIME-ISE (Computers in Mechanical Engineering)
                Madison, Wisconsin
                (608) 233-3378, 300/1200/2400 baud, 8 bits, no parity, 24 hrs
                Cad and scientific programming file sections
                
           NEW> PACS (Philadelphia Area Computer Society)
                Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
                (215) 951-1255, 300/1200/2400 baud, 8 bits, no parity, 24 hrs
                Graphic conference,  Generic  CADD  users  group  run  by  Eric
                Kraemer, surveying  applications programmer,  proposed  Generic
                CADD file section.  $7.50 registration fee.
                
      COGO-MANIA
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      It seems  that shareware  talent has  started to concentrate on COGO/CADD
      applications, much to my satisfaction, as this is the bread and butter of
      the civil  engineering office.   Received  too late  for review  in  this
      section were  GeoCalc's COGO  program, available  from GeoCalc, P. O. Box
      5308, Philadelphia,  PA 19142,  for $10  plus a  stamped,  self-addressed
      diskette mailer.   The  registered version  ($299, or  $399 with  Generic
      CADD) will  produce files  readable by  Generic CADD.    Also  note  that
      CollierGO is listed above under McTRANS.  Both programs are full-featured
      COGO programs,  but with  a  very  different  user  interface.    In  the
      development stages  is Civil  Comp Surveyor  (CC-SURV),  which  will  NOW
      produce Generic  CADD files,  available from  EBBS, Pro.  BBS, PACS,  and
      Comp-U-Ease bulletin boards.
      
      In a  future issue of CCNEWS will be presented a "features matrix" of the
      above COGO  programs (including  SurveySoft, which has been available for
      some time),  with a  short description  of the  differences in  the  user
      interfaces.   If you  just can't wait, go ahead and get them and try them
      out.   It sure beats trying out the commercial stuff, at $1000 to $2000 a
      pop, or $50 for crippled demos!!
      
      CC-REVIEW:  CESTORM/ST1ENTRY
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      CESTORM is  a set  of programs  for the  purpose of analyzing storm drain
      pipe networks.  It is furnished by APWA for $50, and is not SW or PD, but
      is quite  affordable.  It is written in FORTRAN and should run on version
      2.0 or higher of MS-DOS or PC-DOS.  It will utilize an 8087 if available.
      256K RAM is required.
      
      Three programs  are present  on the distribution diskette: STORM1, STORM2
      and STORM3.   They  will handle  up  to  100  pipes  and  300-600  nodes,
      depending on  system memory.   They can be run in batch mode only.  Users
      of other  FORTRAN programs  are familiar  with batch mode, where the user
      must create  a properly formatted input file with a text editor, then run
      the main  program, which  creates an  output file  to print  to screen or
      printer.   Creating the  input file  can be time consuming.  ST1ENTRY was
      written to aid in that process and will also be described below.
      
      STORM1 is  based on the rational method, which is the most popular method
      used in  the geographical  area I practice in, for watersheds of the size
      storm drains  are designed  for.   STORM2 is  similar, but accepts inflow
      hydrograph data  at each  node rather  than rational method data.  STORM3
      uses the  ILLUDAS  method  to  compute  inflow  hydrographs  and  uses  a
      hydrograph time  lag procedure  to route  the flows  through the  system.
      ST1ENTRY will  only prepare input files for STORM1, hence its name (STorm
      1 ENTRY).   Civil  Comp will  consider writing  data entry  programs  for
      STORM2 and  STORM3 if enough interest is shown.  Only STORM1 and ST1ENTRY
      will be reviewed in more detail here.
      
      STORM1 requires subbasin runoff coefficient and subbasin area to be input
      for each  node.   In addition, subbasin slope and length must be entered,
      from  which   inlet  time   is  calculated  using  the  Kirpich  formula.
      Concentration time  is then  calculated by  STORM1 by  adding the sums of
      inlet time  to the  flow time  of upstream sewers.  Flow time is based on
      pipe size and slope.  The concentration time of the longest flow route to
      the node  in question  is used  for determining i (intensity).  Intensity
      may be based upon one of two methods, to be chosen by the user.  Either a
      formula based on U.S. Weather Service Technical Paper No. 40 may be used,
      or a local rainfall intensity duration curve may be entered.
      
      The following  pipeline data is also input:  node numbers for each end of
      the pipe  (not required  to  be  sequential),  diameter,  length,  invert
      elevations at  each end,  and Manning's roughness factor.  It is critical
      that the input file is perfectly formatted for STORM1 to run correctly.
      
      ST1ENTRY  is   a  shareware   program  written  by  Civil  Comp,  with  a
      registration price  of $15.   It  prompts for  required STORM1 input data
      with some  error-checking capabilities such as data type (alpha, numeric,
      etc.) and  range of  values (Manning's "n" between 0 and 1, etc.).  Also,
      some cross-checking  of  data  takes  place.    The  data  must  be  well
      organized, as  no editing  of previous entries is allowed, other than the
      current data line.
      
      ST1ENTRY allows  the user  to create  intensity-duration-frequency  (IDF)
      files for  particular geographic areas, then add pipeline data at a later
      time.   The IDF  file created is simply the first lines of the input file
      described in  the STORM1  manual, without  the pipeline  data.  A program
      option at the main menu of ST1ENTRY allows the user to later retrieve the
      appropriate IDF  file and  append pipeline  data to it, and save it as an
      input file  with another  name, to  be read  by STORM1.  The separate IDF
      file concept  is an enhancement within ST1ENTRY, not an option of STORM1,
      and the IDF file is not usable within STORM1 until pipeline data has been
      appended to it by ST1ENTRY.
      
      After  creating an  input file  with ST1ENTRY, STORM1  is loaded,  and it
      simply prompts  for some  output options  and the  input and  output file
      names.  Run time is short (a few seconds) for small systems if an 8087 is
      present, but could get quite long (many minutes) for a large system if an
      8087 is  not present.   Output  includes a  summary of  pipe and subbasin
      input data  and the  following computed  values:   inlet time, flow time,
      peak time,  pipe flow,  pipe capacity,  and redesign  pipe size  if  pipe
      capacity is  exceeded by  pipe flow.   Output is either to screen or to a
      disk file, as selected by the user before the computer run.  A PD utility
      is furnished  on the  ST1ENTRY diskette to aid in printing an output disk
      file to the printer.
      
      If the user wishes to revise the input file and rerun STORM1, familiarity
      with the file format is required.  The listing printed by ST1ENTRY during
      creation of the input file will help the user find the proper variable in
      the proper field, as variable names used in the STORM1 manual are printed
      above the values on the ST1ENTRY printout.
      
      STORM1 has  some limitations.   It analyzes gravity flow only, that is, a
      hydraulic  grade   line  is  not  determined,  nor  are  junction  losses
      considered.   Still, it  is useful for determining problem areas within a
      network, which may be further analyzed by other methods if necessary.
      
      WHAT'S NEW or COMING SOON
      
      If you haven't seen it by now, go back and read what's new at McTRANS and
      EBBS.   User participation  and full coverage of the CE/LS public domain/
      shareware spectrum  will be  available by  modem or mail order from these
      two sources.
      
      Also, EBBS  and Civil Comp are putting together courses and faculty for a
      seminar in  the spring  for  the  civil/structural  engineer  in  private
      practice.   More news  will be  available regarding  this seminar  on the
      proposed EBBS conference and in future CCNEWSletters.
      
      THE LAST WORD
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      The purpose  of Civil  Comp News  is to  help  users,  distributors,  and
      authors of  PD/SW software for civil engineers and land surveyors keep in
      touch with  each other.   Civil  Comp  is  not  a  software  distributor.
      Hopefully, software  authors will  note friendly  sources of distribution
      listed within CCNEWS and will take advantage of them.  If you know of any
      other sources, please let me know.  Messages may be left for me on EBBS.
      
      The latest update of CCNEWS is available on EBBS, where it may be read by
      subscribers and  non-subscribers alike  by entering "E" at the Main Menu.
      EBBS will  also keep  the most recent four issues in the Civil/Structural
      Files section,  from which  CCNEWS can  be downloaded  or (T)yped to your
      screen.   Also, if  you download  this file,  feel free  to upload  it to
      another BBS to help spread the CCNEWS.
      
                                         Rich Wadsworth
                                         Civil Comp
                                         320 Eureka Canyon Road
                                         Watsonville, CA 95076
