# Girder/Floor/Support Beam Construction (Complete) \[TB]

To define the construction of all associated girders, floor beams, and support beams for the truss bridge, the following parameters can be used for the construction sequence:

**Stage:** This parameter specifies the construction stage during which the girders, floor beams, and support beams will be constructed.

**Bridge:** This parameter specifies the bridge whose superstructure beam elements will be activated at the selected stage.

**Girder Self Weight Factor:** The Girder Self-Weight Factor is used to adjust the contribution of the beams' own weight to the overall structural load calculations. This factor allows for scaling or modifying the self-weight during finite element analysis (FEA) — for example, to account for sacrificial thickness or non-structural attachments.


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