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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    Unbalanced Snow Loads

    I would love to see expanded snow loading capabilities that let you apply different load distributions that are enveloped for design. Specifically for gable roof structures, ASCE 7 requires that you apply a "balanced" load (uniform across the whol...
    Guest almost 2 years ago in  1 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 10 months ago in  1 Future consideration

    RAM SS – Steel Beam Module

    Add Fixed end beams to the gravity beams for design.
    Guest over 3 years ago in  0 Needs review

    Update AS3600 to latest version (2018) in Ram Concrete Module

    Update AS3600 to latest version (2018) in Ram Concrete Module for concrete beam, column & wall design
    Guest over 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

    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 10 months ago in  1 Future consideration

    Include self-weight of braces

    Include the self-weight of braces in the dead load.
    Guest 11 months ago in  4 Future consideration

    ASCE 7 Minimum Wind Load Application

    ASCE 7 (10, 16, and 22 versions) section 27.1.5 specifies a minimum wind load on the entire building projected area (see commentary). This should be applied as a separate load case. RAM Frame treats this as individual floors shall not receive less...
    Guest over 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

    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 about 4 years ago in  1 Needs review

    Lateral Drift Load Combinations for Wind

    There seems to be a fundamental problem with lateral drift for wind in RAM Frame. Currently, accounting for lateral drift in accordance with ASCE 7, Appendix CC "Serviceability Considerations" requires some juggling. To follow this procedure, one ...
    Guest over 1 year ago in  2 Future consideration

    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 about 4 years ago in  0 Needs review