Modeling
- The modeling capabilities of the RAM Modeler are simple and intuitive enough to remember from project to project, yet powerful enough to model complex structures
- Automatic generation of grids, columns, beams, slab edges, etc.
- Model changes easily made and accommodated
- Dead Load and Live Load floor and roof loads modeled as surface (area), line and point loads, automatically distributed to supporting beams, columns and walls
- Options to automatically include self-weight of deck, slabs and members
- Reducible, Unreducible and Storage Live Loads, with Live Load
- Reduction automatically calculated per the requirements of the specified Building Code
- Uniform and drifted snow loads and reducible and unreducible Roof Live Loads
- DXF import of floor framing plans
Steel Beam Design
- Design of composite and non-composite steel beams per AISC ASD 9th Ed. with Supplement #1 and LRFD 3rd Ed., BS 5950:2000, CAN/CSA S16-01 with Supplement No. 1, and EurocodeSelection of Steel Joists, including K-, LH-, DLH- and KCS series joists, and designation of Joist Girders
- Design of composite and non-composite castellated and cellular SMI Smartbeams™
- Design of web openings
- Design of plate girders
- Design loads automatically calculated from model floor and roof loads, including Live Load Reduction
- Extensive user-specified design criteria, including depth and size limits, deflection limits, camber increments and limits, and stud spacing and placement limits
- Composite beam effective flange widths calculated automatically
- Optimize for new construction and investigate sizes for existing construction
- Fully interactive design investigation allowing full user control over the final beam design
- Floor Vibration analysis
- Camber automatically calculated and included with the deflection calculation
- Simple span or cantilevered beams with automatic pattern loading of Live Load
- Load, shear, moment and deflection diagrams with results available at any point along span
- Comprehensive set of reports, including detailed Design reports and concise Summary reports
- Comprehensive material takeoff, including piece count, steel tonnage and stud count allowing for comparison of various design schemes
- All reports can be viewed on-screen, printed or saved in spreadsheet file format
Steel Column Design
- Design of steel columns and baseplates per AISC ASD 9th with Supplement #1 and LRFD 3rd, BS 5950:2000, CAN/CSA S16-01 with Supplement No. 1, and Eurocode
- Design loads automatically calculated from model floor and roof loads, including Live Load Reduction
- Optimization based on Code requirements and extensive user-specified criteria, and allows investigation and assignment of user-specified sizes
- Fully interactive design allowing full user control over the final column design
- Moments induced by beam-to-column connection eccentricity automatically calculated, and the effects of pattern loading the Live Load around the column are included
- Comprehensive set of reports, including detailed Design reports and concise Summary reports
- All reports can be viewed on-screen, printed or saved in spreadsheet file format
- Comprehensive material takeoff, including piece count and steel tonnage allowing for comparison of various design schemes
Integration
- Automatic generation of CAD DXF floor plans, including beam size, studs, camber and reactions
- Automatic generation of CAD DXF base plan and column schedule
- Integration with RAM Connection for comprehensive and complete connection design
- Integration with Bentley Structural
- Integration with third-party software
- CIS/2 file output
* Smartbeam is a trademark of SMI Steel Products
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