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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 V8i, and STAAD.Pro V8i 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 V8i 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:
- Automatic K, Cb, and Cm calculations
- Optimization or verification for steel and wood members
- Compact, non-compact, and slender section designs
- 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
- Optimization/verification of reinforcement bars
- Designs for flexure, shear, and torsion
- DXF export of beam rebar detailing
- Cracked section option
- Calculation of lap length, development length, and cutoff points
- ACI 318 or BS 8110 codes
- Reinforced concrete column design
- Optimization/verification of reinforcement bars
- Interaction diagrams in 2D or 3D
- Designs for axial, biaxial bending, and shear
- Slenderness effects
- Cracked section option
- Seismic provisions for column detailing
- Calculation of lap length, development length, and cutoff points
- ACI 318 or BS 8110 codes
- DXF export of column rebar detailing
- Reinforced concrete footing design
- Optimization/verification of reinforcement bars
- Designs for flexure, biaxial bending, shear, and punching shear
- DXF export of footing rebar detailing
- Soil-structure interaction
- Custom column position on the footing
- ACI 318 or BS 8110 codes
- Retaining wall design
- Optimization/verification of reinforcement bars
- Analysis and design of reinforced or unreinforced concrete or masonry retaining walls
- ACI 318-05, ACI 530-05 or BS 8110 codes
- Graphical input of wall loads and geometry
- Backfill with multiple horizontal soil layers
- Sloped backfill
- Surcharge (on both sides of the wall)
- Options to define cantilever, gravity or restrained retaining walls (with a lateral restraint and pinned or fixed bases)
- Tapered stems or stems with several blocks with thickness and reinforcement changes
- Hydrostatic water pressure
- Axial loads on the stem are considered (with or without eccentricity)
- Wind lateral pressures
- Includes moment and shear diagrams
- Influence of adjacent footings
- Different theories for calculating lateral soil pressures (Rankine, Coulomb, EFP (Equivalent Fluid Method), at rest pressures)
- Seismic load (with the Mononobe-Okabe method considering a single homogeneous backfill layer without cohesion)
- Wall tilt calculations (deflections)
- DXF export of wall rebar detailing
- Detailed report
- Continuous beam design
- Easy input of spans, sections, materials and loadings
- Steel, wood, or concrete beams
- Automatic skip loading
- Automatic load combination generation
- Optimization including deflection limits
- Specialized reports for continuous beams
- Tilt-up wall design
- Graphical input of wall geometry and loads
- Fixed, pinned or compression only springs for the bottom support of the wall
- Graphical input of openings
- Isolated or continuous footings option
- Simplified or finite element analysis methods
- Automatic design according to the ACI 318 and ACI 551 codes
- Consideration of reveals in the design
- Single or double layer of reinforcement
- Consideration of self weight
Vertical concentrated loads: dead or live, with or without eccentricity at any position along the existing levels
- Vertical distributed in-plane loads: dead or live, with or without eccentricity
- Lateral distributed out-of-plane loads: wind or seismic
- Lateral in-plane loads: wind or seismic
- Moment, shear, and axial diagrams
- FEM diagrams with forces, stresses, and deformation scale of values
- Option to verify the wall quickly and update the results at any moment
- Option to optimize the design of the wall
- Option to suggest the minimum required thickness according to the deflection calculated in the previous design
- DXF export of wall rebar detailing
- Detailed report
- Masonry wall design
- Graphical input of wall geometry and loads
- Graphical input of openings
- An integrated design of four different elements of masonry: bearing walls, shear walls, columns and lintels
- Unreinforced or reinforced bearing and/or shear walls
- Consideration of rigidity elements such as columns or flanges
- FEM analysis of the wall
- Automatic design according to ACI 530-05 ASD
- Consideration of single or double layer of reinforcement
- Easy modification of wall dimensions and reinforcement
- Consideration of self weight
- Vertical concentrated loads: dead and live, with or without eccentricity at any position along the existing levels
- Vertical distributed loads: dead and live, with or without eccentricity at any position
- Lateral in-plane loads: wind and seismic loads, concentrated or distributed at any position along the existing levels
- Lateral out-of-plane loads: wind and seismic pressure loads
- FEM diagrams for forces, stresses and deformations with graphic scales
- Option to verify the wall quickly and update the results at any moment
- Option to optimize reinforcement
- DXF export of wall rebar detailing
- Detailed report of the general data, reinforcement provided, design results of the masonry wall
- Reinforced concrete shear wall design
- Graphical input of wall geometry and loads
- Graphical input of openings
- Consideration of boundary elements as columns or flanges
- Analysis of the wall with FEM (finite elements method)
- Automatic design according to the ACI 318-05 Code
- Consideration of a single or double layer of reinforcement
- Consideration of self weight
- Vertical concentrated loads with or without eccentricity at any position along the existing levels
- Vertical distributed in-plane loads
- Lateral concentrated in-plane loads with or without eccentricity at any position along the existing levels
- Lateral distributed in-plane loads
- FEM diagrams with forces, stresses and deformation scale of values
- Interaction diagrams in 2D or 3D for the whole cross section of the wall including boundary elements
- Option to verify the wall quickly and update the results at any moment
- Option to optimize the design of the wall
- DXF export of wall rebar detailing
- Detailed report
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