Modeling
• Easy, intuitive modeling with numerous tools available to improve productivity
• Unique member grouping features for ease of input, optimization, and organized output
• Intuitive member selection, generation, and manipulation capabilities
• User customizable templates for frames, trusses, towers, etc.
• Concurrent spreadsheet and graphical input
• Physical member and physical shell modeling
• Outstanding OpenGL™ graphics with 3D rendering and translucent options
• Area loading with automatic load distribution
• Advanced automatic data generation capabilities
• Easy modeling of openings in shells
• Immediate graphical verification of all input parameters
• User customizable section templates
• Multiple program (global) and model (local) views with option to save
• Ability to handle all unit systems and customize individual parameters
• Import of DXF, RAM Structural System, and STAAD.Pro files
• Export to DXF, SDNF (v2.0 and v3.0) and RAM BasePlate
• Options to create BMP or JPG image files from the model at any time
Analysis
• Fast and robust analysis engine with in-core and out-of-core solver options
• Dynamic analysis (Eigenvalue and Response Spectra) with CQC, SRSS, and ABS methods
• Iterative non-linear P-Delta analysis, 2nd order analysis
• Tension only members
• Compression only springs
• Flexible or rigid floor diaphragms
• Thermal loads
• Prismatic and real tapered (correct finite element with exact stiffness) member analysis
• In-plane and out-of-plane stresses in shells
• Automatic self-weight calculations
• Allows imposed nodal displacements
• Automatically calculates member forces from applied pressures
• Fully integrates with RAM Connection for steel connection design
• Graphical depiction of all analysis results including stress contour plots and animated mode shapes
• Improved and automatic high quality meshing library for shells (CM2 MeshTools™)
• Rigid end offsets and cardinal points for members
• Spring generator for soil-structure interaction
Design
• Hot rolled steel design per AISC 360-05 (13th edition) either in LRFD or ASD, as well as BS 5950:
o Automatic K, Cb, and Cm calculations
o Optimization or verification for steel and wood members
o Compact, non-compact, and slender section designs
o Tapered member design per ASD or LRFD
• Cold formed steel design per AISI/COS/NASPEC 2001, including the 2001• Reinforced concrete design per ACI 318-05, ACI 318-99, and BS 8110
• Wood design (sawn lumber, timber or glulam) per NDS 2005 in ASD or LRFD
• Seamless and integrated steel connection design with RAM Connection for shear, moment and braced connection design
Design/Detailing Modules
• Reinforced concrete beam design
o Optimization/verification of reinforcement bars
o Designs for flexure, shear, and torsion
o DXF export of beam rebar detailing
o Cracked section option
o Calculation of lap length, development length, and cutoff points
o ACI 318 or BS 8110 codes
• Reinforced concrete column design
o Optimization/verification of reinforcement bars
o Interaction diagrams in 2D or 3D
o Designs for axial, biaxial bending, and shear
o Slenderness effects
o Cracked section option
o Seismic provisions for column detailing
o Calculation of lap length, development length, and cutoff points
o ACI 318 or BS 8110 codes
o DXF export of column rebar detailing
• Reinforced concrete footing design
o Optimization/verification of reinforcement bars
o Designs for flexure, biaxial bending, shear, and punching shear
o DXF export of footing rebar detailing
o Soil-structure interaction
o Custom column position on the footing
o ACI 318 or BS 8110 codes
• Retaining wall design
o Optimization/verification of reinforcement bars
o Analysis and design of reinforced or unreinforced concrete or masonry retaining walls
o ACI 318-05, ACI 530-05 or BS 8110 codes
o Graphical input of wall loads and geometry
o Backfill with multiple horizontal soil layers
o Sloped backfill
o Surcharge (on both sides of the wall)
o Options to define cantilever, gravity or restrained retaining walls (with a lateral restraint
and pinned or fixed bases)
o Tapered stems or stems with several blocks with thickness and reinforcement changes
o Hydrostatic water pressure
o Axial loads on the stem are considered (with or without eccentricity)
o Wind lateral pressures
o Includes moment and shear diagrams
o Influence of adjacent footings
o Different theories for calculating lateral soil pressures (Rankine, Coulomb, EFP
(Equivalent Fluid Method), at rest pressures)
o Seismic load (with the Mononobe-Okabe method considering a single homogeneous
backfill layer without cohesion)
o Wall tilt calculations (deflections)
o DXF export of wall rebar detailing
o Detailed report
• Continuous beam design
o Easy input of spans, sections, materials and loadings
o Steel, wood, or concrete beams
o Automatic skip loading
o Automatic load combination generation
o Optimization including deflection limits
o Specialized reports for continuous beams
• Tilt-up wall design
o Graphical input of wall geometry and loads
o Fixed, pinned or compression only springs for the bottom support of the wall
o Graphical input of openings
o Isolated or continuous footings option
o Simplified or finite element analysis methods
o Automatic design according to the ACI 318 and ACI 551 codes
o Consideration of reveals in the design
o Single or double layer of reinforcement
o Consideration of self weight
o Vertical concentrated loads: dead or live, with or without eccentricity at any position along the existing levels
o Vertical distributed in-plane loads: dead or live, with or without eccentricity
o Lateral distributed out-of-plane loads: wind or seismic
o Lateral in-plane loads: wind or seismic
o Moment, shear, and axial diagrams
o FEM diagrams with forces, stresses, and deformation scale of values
o Option to verify the wall quickly and update the results at any moment
o Option to optimize the design of the wall
o Option to suggest the minimum required thickness according to the deflection calculated in the previous design
o DXF export of wall rebar detailing
o Detailed report
• Masonry wall design
o Graphical input of wall geometry and loads
o Graphical input of openings
o An integrated design of four different elements of masonry: bearing walls, shear walls, columns and lintels
o Unreinforced or reinforced bearing and/or shear walls
o Consideration of rigidity elements such as columns or flanges
o FEM analysis of the wall
o Automatic design according to ACI 530-05 ASD
o Consideration of single or double layer of reinforcement
o Easy modification of wall dimensions and reinforcement
o Consideration of self weight
o Vertical concentrated loads: dead and live, with or without eccentricity at any position along the existing levels
o Vertical distributed loads: dead and live, with or without eccentricity at any position
o Lateral in-plane loads: wind and seismic loads, concentrated or distributed at any position along the existing levels
o Lateral out-of-plane loads: wind and seismic pressure loads
o FEM diagrams for forces, stresses and deformations with graphic scales
o Option to verify the wall quickly and update the results at any moment
o Option to optimize reinforcement
o DXF export of wall rebar detailing
o Detailed report of the general data, reinforcement provided, design results of the
masonry wall
• Reinforced concrete shear wall design
o Graphical input of wall geometry and loads
o Graphical input of openings
o Consideration of boundary elements as columns or flanges
o Analysis of the wall with FEM (finite elements method)
o Automatic design according to the ACI 318-05 Code
o Consideration of a single or double layer of reinforcement
o Consideration of self weight
o Vertical concentrated loads with or without eccentricity at any position along the existing levels
o Vertical distributed in-plane loads
o Lateral concentrated in-plane loads with or without eccentricity at any position along the existing levels
o Lateral distributed in-plane loads
o FEM diagrams with forces, stresses and deformation scale of values
o Interaction diagrams in 2D or 3D for the whole cross section of the wall including boundary elements
o Option to verify the wall quickly and update the results at any moment o Option to optimize the design of the wall
o DXF export of wall rebar detailing
o Detailed report