RAM Structural System Ideas

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    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 over 3 years ago in  0 Needs review

    RAM SS – Steel Beam Module

    Add Fixed end beams to the gravity beams for design.
    Guest over 2 years ago in  0 Needs review

    Absolute Member Force Envelope

    In the Analysis -> Load Combinations we are able to view a member force envelope for the Max or Min, but not the absolute value for worst case loading. When looking at a braced frame elevation with brace axial loads, in order to determine the a...
    Michael Duffield over 3 years ago in  1 Needs review

    Reports for meshed shear wall reactions

    Currently you can only export the end reactions to a report. It would be beneficial to be able to export the reactions at ever node (specifically to a text file) a long the wall for foundation design.
    Guest over 3 years ago in  0 Needs review

    Allow construction grids to be converted to primary grids or provide new primary grid tools

    Pretty self explanatory. Allow the user to convert a construction grid to a primary gird element. Grids are constantly changing throughout the design process due to requirements for columns to shift/etc. The tools for modifying primary grid system...
    Joshua Few about 1 year ago in  2 Future consideration

    RAM SS Concrete Module - Add torsional design to Beams

    Add torsional design to concrete beams to meet ACI requirements for seismic design.
    Guest over 2 years ago in  0 Future consideration

    Remove 0 stress limit from displayed wall stresses in Frame

    When viewing wall stresses in RAM Frame, I would like the ability to set the lower bound above 0. This allows me to set a pass/fail stress test. For example, if I’m interested in 0.163 ksi (which I am), I want to set the upper AND lower bound to 0...
    Guest 11 months ago in  3 Planned

    RAM SS- Remove deflection failure report for cambered beams

    When the camber of a beam brings the deflection criteria within parameters, the option to turn off flagging them as failed in report would be greatly appreciated. In a large job with several repetitive floors with cambered beams, there can be hun...
    Jared Ganstine Ganstine over 3 years ago in  1 Already exists

    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 3 years ago in  0 Needs review

    Unbalanced Snow Loads on Cantilevers

    I am wondering if there has been any progress on implementing 50% unbalanced snow loads for cantilevers. In a forum post from 2020, Seth Guthrie said that it was on the backlog ( https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum...
    Guest over 2 years ago in  0 Needs review