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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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

Load Case Selection Set Presets In RAM Frame

Please add selection set presets for groups of load cases in the analyze dialogue in RAM Frame. I always have at least groups of load combos for strength and groups for deflection, and sometimes have groups for modal analysis. It would be great to...
Guest over 2 years ago in  0 Needs review

Ability to cancel report printing in RAMSS

Some reports are long and take a while to load. It would be nice to have the ability to terminate the report loading/printing process.
Guest over 2 years 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 almost 2 years 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 almost 2 years ago in  0 Needs review

RAM SS - Progressive Collapse

Add a Progressive Collapse Module to RAM SS
Guest almost 2 years ago in  3 Planned

RAM SS Concrete Module - Add torsional design to Columns

Add torsional design to concrete columns to meet ACI requirements for seismic design.
Guest almost 2 years 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 about 1 year 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 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

RAM needs to calculate embodied carbon!

We are increasingly being asked to assess options on the basis of carbon intensity. It would save many engineers lots of time if RAM SS & RAM Concept had the capability of calculating embodied carbon. It is a very simple addition - it could be...
Guest over 2 years ago in  1 Future consideration