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Retaining Wall Module - Add Wall-soil friction angle for passive soils

It has come to my attention that the program is using the Foundation base-soil friction coefficient to compute the passive pressure resistance when using Columb (it's using this to back calculate "delta"). To be frank, this is just wrong IMO. The ...
about 1 month ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review

Generating Moving Loads

Ability to generate moving loads in RAM Elements similar to STAAD.Pro.
4 months ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review

Point Loads on Areas

Ability to add point loads or line loads to areas. Areas would then distribute the loads to the supporting members based on the direction of the area.
4 months ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review

Update analysis and design engine

Elements needs an analysis overhaul. I have a model with less than 1000 frame members and 200 load combinations. Several cases have imposed displacements and Elements mandates a P-Delta analysis for this situation. It takes 10 minutes to analyze a...
2 months ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review

Steel Member Web Openings

The ability to add steel beam web openings would be very helpful. SBeam is the only way to do that now, but it requires pulling loads out of Elements, instead of being integrated into the main program or even the steel beam module.
8 months ago in RAM Elements 1 Needs review

Point Loads in-between supports of tilit-up wall (module)

The ability in the tilit-up module to apply concentrated (vertical and out-of-plane) loads at locations in-between supports of the walls.
3 months ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review

RAM Elements Retaining Wall Module Bearing Pressure/Load Diagrams

Provide triangular bearing pressure results in either the report or on the diagrams page. Provide triangular load distribution in the Home page for earth pressure lateral loads.
3 months ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review

Gridlines

I would love to have gridlines to help keep everything straight. Also, a toggle switch that doesn't allow you to select the grids.
over 1 year ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review

modeling of circular or curved beams

please add a feature to model and design circular or curved beams.
over 1 year ago in RAM Elements 1 Needs review

I checked with Bentley support team for design of Concrete column in RAM Elelments. As i can see the design can be performed in two different ways.

Output - Output - Design – Reinforced concrete – Members Concrete column module. But the Bentley team suggested checking the column design under the concrete column module. In this way, only the program gives detailed design reports. But it looks ...
4 months ago in RAM Elements 2 Needs review