Purpose: Used to define cover plates on bottom flanges.
--> Given in girder input
List of bottom cover plate spacings (feet or meters), alternating between non cover-plated regions and cover plated regions. The first value is the non cover-plated region from the left bearing of the girder to the beginning of the first cover plate, the second value is the length of the first cover plate, the third value is length of the non cover-plated region between the first second cover plates, and so on. (Also see BCOVB , BCOVT , TCOVB , TCOVSP , TCOVT)
Note: Layered cover plates can be represented by equivalent cover plates (of combined thickness where layered) separated by a small spacing of, say, 0.1 feet. (However, if the width varies per layer, then this would need to be resolved into an appropriately assumed width.)