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RAM Structural System

Implement National Building Code of Canada 2025 Load Combination Changes

In the newly adopted NBCC2025, load factors from gravity load combinations are being changed. In Canada, RAM will be incorrect/obsolete on all projects moving forward unless the load combinations are addressed.
9 days ago in RAM Structural System Future consideration

Column connection eccentricities

I would like the column connection eccentricity use the actual column geometry to consider whether the centerline of the beam strikes the web or the flange of the column. Currently, RAM allows you to specify an angle to "split" the reaction, but t...
4 months ago in RAM Structural System Future consideration

When moving a column on one level include an option that also moves it on other levels.

When a column is moved it only moves on one level which makes you chase down data check errors when columns are misaligned. When column locations change it would be nice to have the option to move it on all levels and not just the one selected.
5 months ago in RAM Structural System Future consideration

Do not clear steel beam sizes when changing noncomposite to composite.

Do not clear steel beam sizes when changing non-composite to composite. I'm not sure if this is deliberate or a bug, but members with assigned sizes can be changed from composite to non-composite in the modeler without losing their assignment. How...
5 months ago in RAM Structural System Future consideration

RAM Frame - Assign > Parapet

Provide the ability to assign a parapet/roof screen/roof projection graphically in RAM Frame for the purposes of customizing the exposure at each top level of a building structure.
5 months ago in RAM Structural System Future consideration

Custom Load Combinations in RAM Steel Beam/Steel Column

Please add the ability to generate load combinations and create custom load combinations in RAM Steel Beam and RAM Steel Column for the gravity loads. Updated codes and additional requirements (such as the need to incorporate FM Global datasheets)...
5 months ago in RAM Structural System Future consideration

Add special boundary element design for shear walls with Hw/Lw < 2. ACI 318-19 Section 18.10.6.3

In the concrete wall module, special boundary element zone requirements are only checked against the displacement method (ACI 18.10.6.2). In ACI 318-14 and 19 section 18.10.6.2 is directed at slender walls with Hw/Lw >= 2. If the aspect ratio o...
6 months ago in RAM Structural System Future consideration

Maximize embodied carbon reductions in design optimization

I'm working on reducing the embodied carbon of a project of mine, and I'm having to compare column systems, between WF columns and HSS. WF columns have significantly lower embodied carbon (~60% reductions when using the same weight of steel), so I...
8 months ago in RAM Structural System Future consideration

Develop a procedure for linking RAM SS & RAM Concept models when both steel framing and two-way slabs are on the same level

There is a pretty nice procedure for importing geometry from RAM SS to RAM Concept for two-way slab design and vise versa to capture the two-way slab properties in RAM SS. But this is really only idealized for when there is only a two-way podium a...
9 months ago in RAM Structural System Future consideration

Include self-weight of braces

Include the self-weight of braces in the dead load.
10 months ago in RAM Structural System Future consideration