RAM Structural System Ideas

Welcome to the RAM Structural System Ideas portal. The purpose of this site is to post ideas for enhancements and new features. We value your feedback and our team regularly reviews your suggestions for consideration in future releases.

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    Add Ability to Split Members in RAM Modeler

    The ability to split members (beams and walls) in Modeler would be very helpful, rather than delete and reenter
    Tim Liebhold about 4 years ago in  2 Needs review

    use ram frame to apply wind loads to non-diaphragm members

    The ability to flag a member as a wind girt so wind loading is applied to the member if a diaphragm is not present.
    Guest about 4 years ago in  0 Needs review

    Add CMU Material Defaults and Design

    We design many buildings that include a combination of materials. Integrating masonry material properties by default and adding design for masonry would be useful, similar to Risa.
    Guest over 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

    Do not clear steel beam sizes when changing noncomposite to composite.

    Do not clear steel beam sizes when changing non-composite to composite. I'm not sure if this is deliberate or a bug, but members with assigned sizes can be changed from composite to non-composite in the modeler without losing their assignment. How...
    Guest 5 months ago in  1 Future consideration

    Manage inclined ramps in RSS

    Analyze and design ramps that joins different levels in a structure, as the ones you find in parking structures, for both, concrete and steel.
    M Portillo about 4 years ago in  0 Needs review

    RAM Frame - Assign > Parapet

    Provide the ability to assign a parapet/roof screen/roof projection graphically in RAM Frame for the purposes of customizing the exposure at each top level of a building structure.
    Guest 5 months ago in  0 Future consideration

    Maximize embodied carbon reductions in design optimization

    I'm working on reducing the embodied carbon of a project of mine, and I'm having to compare column systems, between WF columns and HSS. WF columns have significantly lower embodied carbon (~60% reductions when using the same weight of steel), so I...
    Guest 8 months ago in  1 Future consideration

    Develop a procedure for linking RAM SS & RAM Concept models when both steel framing and two-way slabs are on the same level

    There is a pretty nice procedure for importing geometry from RAM SS to RAM Concept for two-way slab design and vise versa to capture the two-way slab properties in RAM SS. But this is really only idealized for when there is only a two-way podium a...
    Guest 9 months ago in  1 Future consideration

    Internalize Floor Vibration Analysis/Design

    Given the apparent impasse on acquiring licenses to FloorVibe, and the number of hurdles in the way of using FloorVibe, it seems that integrating this analysis directly within RAM SS would be beneficial. For a long time this was a selling point of...
    Tim Liebhold 9 months ago in  1 Planned

    Account for wall transfer loads on one-way deck

    As far as I am aware, RSS does not track the load transfer when a wall is sitting on a one-way deck without a supporting beam or wall directly below. The loads from the wall above the deck is "lost". My firm does a lot of multi-family construction...
    Brian Genduso Genduso about 4 years ago in  0 Needs review