Modeling
- Quick modeling of gravity and lateral concrete framing systems
- Special commands to ease modeling of pan-joist systems
- Automatic calculation of T-shaped beam sections taking into consideration adjacent slab conditions
- Model creation with the ease and power of the industry-leading RAM Modeler
- Integration with the RAM Structural System means reduced learning curve for current users
Analysis
- Automatic calculation of member section properties, including effective flange widths for T-sections and material properties per design code
- Automatic or manual user-definition of beam lines for skip loading
- Automatic Finite Element model creation for gravity force analysis per ACI 318
- Automatic gravity load distribution and live load reduction
- Automatic live load skip loading for column forces incorporating ACI 318, Section 8.8
- Automatic live load skip loading for beam forces incorporating ACI 318, Section 8.9
- User control of torsional stiffness for analysis
- Graphical display of applied loads and analysis results
- Comprehensive reports of beam gravity design envelopes and column design forces
- Complete integration with RAM Frame for generation of lateral loads and member forces
- Building codes supported include IBC 2006, IBC 2003, IBC 2000, BOCA 1999, SBC 1999, and UBC 1997
Shear Wall Design
- Fast and easy grouping of wall elements into groups for design
- Grouped walls can be designed as either separate planes or as cores
- Option to automatically create section cuts for wall groups based on user preferences
- Automatic creation of wall panels
- Design accommodates arbitrarily arranged openings in walls as well as walls with sloping top or bottom edges
- Consideration of ACI 318 and BS8110 prescriptive and strength specifications for reinforcing design including spacing, bar cover, and reinforcement ratios
- Consideration of special seismic requirements of ACI 318
- Automatic load combination generation per major building codes, ACI 318, and BS8110
- Axial-flexural evaluation of arbitrarily shaped wall cores
- Creation of physical reinforcing bars, including true locations within walls, from user specified reinforcing callouts
- Interactive design and revision of reinforcing, including quantity and size
- Graphical display of axial-flexural interaction surface and demand points at any cross section in either P vs M plane or M vs. M plane.
- Graphical display of reinforcing bars in walls
- Immediate update of design information for user change in reinforcing
- Graphical display of current design state of all walls
- Detailed and concise summary design output
- Wall elevations in DXF format
Column Design
- Automatic load combination generation per major building codes, ACI 318, and BS8110
- Slenderness considered per ACI 318 Sections 10.11 through 10.13 including automatic effective length and K-factor calculations
- Automatic column force generation from gravity and lateral analysis
- Option to import column loads from RAM Concept
- Consideration of ACI 318 and BS8110 prescriptive and strength specifications for reinforcing design including spacing, bar cover, and reinforcement ratios
- Preliminary design fully automated and performed to user-specified design criteria
- Automatic reinforcing selection for multiple bar layouts for shear, axial, and bending
- Fully interactive design and revision of reinforcing layouts for longitudinal and transverse reinforcement
- Automatic biaxial moment interaction curve generation and display
- Graphical display of all automatically generated load points in interaction curve
- Graphical display of current design state of all concrete columns
- Detailed and concise summary design output
- Reinforcing and material takeoff reports
- Base plan and column schedule DXF output
Beam Design
- Automatic load combination generation per major building codes, ACI 318, and BS8110
- Automatic beam force envelope generation from gravity skip load forces and lateral analysis forces
- Consideration of ACI 318 and BS8110 prescriptive and strength specification for reinforcing design including spacing, bar cover, and reinforcement ratios
- Performs the ACI prescribed calculation of immediate and long term deflections for beams and joists, including net deflections for cambered members.
- User specification of design and detailing criteria to control automatic design of reinforcing
- Preliminary design fully automated and performed to user-specified design criteria
- Fully interactive design and revision of reinforcing, including quantity, size, location and end conditions of all bars
- Graphical display of capacity and demand envelope for moments and shear along full length of beam lines
- Graphical display of reinforcement layout along beam length
- Immediate update of capacity curves for user change in reinforcing
- Graphical display of current design state of all concrete beams
- Detailed and concise summary design output
- Reinforcing and material takeoff reports
- Floor plan and beam schedule DXF output including grouping
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