RAM Structural System Ideas

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RAM Structural System

    Add special boundary element design for shear walls with Hw/Lw < 2. ACI 318-19 Section 18.10.6.3

    In the concrete wall module, special boundary element zone requirements are only checked against the displacement method (ACI 18.10.6.2). In ACI 318-14 and 19 section 18.10.6.2 is directed at slender walls with Hw/Lw >= 2. If the aspect ratio o...
    Guest 8 months ago in  1 Future consideration

    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 3 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 over 3 years ago in  0 Needs review

    RAM SS - Tapered Columns & Beams

    Add a Tapered Column and Beam design options to all of RAM SS modules
    Guest over 3 years 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 3 years ago in  0 Needs review

    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  1 Needs review

    Flexibility in modifying the tributary height for Wind Load exposure for buildings with varying levels of diaphragms

    RAM wind load currently gets applied taking the trib height as half the difference between the two levels. It would be tremendously useful if there was an option to modify the trib height, thereby playing with full height or partial height exposur...
    Guest about 4 years ago in  0 Needs review

    Cancel Last Point

    The ability to cancel last point when drawing an area load, deck assignment or mat foundation like you can in RAM Concept. It's especially frustrating when drawing a mat foundation and you accidentally click the wrong point and have to start over ...
    Guest about 4 years ago in  1 Needs review

    ignore minor out of plane shear stress

    RAM concrete ignores out-of-plane shear stress less than 0.000050 ksi. Allow us to increase this threshold or ignore it entirely. I'm still getting walls flagged for 0.2 kips of out-of-plane shear in a 10' wide by 26" thick wall.
    Guest about 2 years ago in  1 Planned

    Apply Lateral Point(Nodal)/Line Loads Logically

    Below is a list of thoughts about lateral point(nodal)/line loads. Incorporating any of the below ideas would be helpful. 1. Allow the user to apply lateral line loads as well as lateral point(nodal) loads. 2. Allow the user to apply lateral point...
    Guest about 2 years ago in  0 Needs review