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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Apply different % composite rules for different members

We generally require a different minimum % composite for beams as opposed to girders. It would be beneficial to apply member specific rules, similar to how different deflection criteria is applied.
Guest over 2 years ago in  0 Needs review

Fixed End Composite Beam Deflection In RAM Beam

It would be very useful to be able to calculate the deflection of fixed-end composite beams in RAM Beam.
Guest over 2 years ago in  0 Needs review

Change Polygon Option for Mat Foundations

Please add an option in RAM Modeler > Layout > Foundations > Mat > Geometry to "Change Polygon". Currently, the only option is to "Modify Coordinates". It would be much faster to have a GUI that lets users snap to grid or construction ...
Guest over 2 years ago in  0 Needs review

RAM SS Reports

Add a feature to allow for varying report detail levels. Short, medium, and long very detailed reports.
Guest over 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

Concrete Column Slenderness Check to ACI 318

When the bottom of the Column is a foundation and user elects to use Col forces from RAM Concept whereby no Concept forces/moments and therefore RSS will use RAM Conc Analysis(for Col bottom forces and those moments are always negative), for a lac...
Guest 10 months ago in  0 Needs review

Shear Wall Design Groups and Reinforcement gets deleted if I change f'c or stiffness modifiers or thicknesses.

Please revise shear wall module to not automatically delete sections cuts, groups, wall reinforcing, etc. when I change f'c, wall stiffness modifiers, or thicknesses.
Guest over 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

RAM SS – Structural elements between levels

Provide an option to connect elements for one level to the adjacent level other than columns
Guest over 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

RAM SS Concrete Module - Add torsional design to Columns

Add torsional design to concrete columns to meet ACI requirements for seismic design.
Guest over 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

Slave Nodes or Manual Rigid Links in RAM SS

When modeling braced frames on structures with sloping roofs, you are forced to model the diaphragm at one level without slope for proper lateral load application; this causes the brace geometry to be wrong. It would be nice to be able to model th...
Guest over 2 years ago in  0 Needs review

RAM SS-Foundations modeled/adjustments in Foundation Module

It would be a time saver to not require reanalysis of the building for changing/adding a foundation element or their properties, by allowing modeling to be conducted in the foundation module.
Jared Ganstine Ganstine over 2 years ago in  0 Needs review