RAM Foundation

General

• Fully supports the ACI-318 and BS8110 design codes and numerous building codes including IBC2006, IBC 2003/2000, UBC 97, SBC 99 and BOCA 96/99
• Automatically generates code required load combinations for both soil bearing checks and concrete design, and allows for user-defined custom load combinations
• Flexible user-defined optimization parameters allow you to reach a design based on your standards and preferences
• Design process is fully interactive so changes can be made and the effect reported instantaneously
• Allows for automatic optimization or user controlled design of both foundation dimensions and reinforcing
• Sizes footings for uplift automatically, including user input safety factor
• Reinforcing designs conform to all code standards and limits including reinforcement ratio, spacing, development length, and cover
• Produces complete and attractive design calculations
• Produces foundation plan drawings, foundation details and schedules for CAD

Spread Footings

• Fast and accurate solution for spread footings with axial loads and bi-axial moments, taking into account no-tension behavior of soil
• Checks the limit states of one-way beam shear, punching shear accounting for moments in columns or walls, and footing flexural strength
• Flexural reinforcement automatically selected for spread footings, with user-override capabilities
• Spread footings may be designed for either true loading or soil capacity
• Negative flexural reinforcement (top bars) automatically provided when required
• Allows you to reduce the number of unique spread footings with option to use controlling reinforcement on all footings of the same size
• Ability to add spread or pile cap foundations under columns located at the end of shear walls and continuous footings under the shear walls

Continuous Footings

• Allows unlimited number of columns, braces, and walls on a continuous footing
• Fast finite element analysis for continuous footings, taking into account no-tension behavior of soil
• Shear and flexural reinforcement automatically selected for continuous footings
• Options to override reinforcement sizes or quantity along any part of continuous footings
• Interactive diagram of provided and required moment/shear envelopes in continuous footing View/Update dialog

Pile Caps

• Fast and accurate solution for pile caps with axial loads, bi-axial moments, shear, and torsion
• Comprehensive pile cap check including column punching shear, single pile and double pile punching shear, as well as one-way shear
• Pile capacity check for compression, tension, and shear
• Pile caps may be designed for either true pile loads or pile capacity
• Negative flexural reinforcement (top bars) automatically provided when required
• Truss theory considered when required by BS8110-97 code