The welded shear plate connection is the most common connection in renovation jobs where existing steel is shored, cut, and reconnected to new steel, which could be a beam or column. For beam to girder, shear plate is usually extended to clear the...

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...

For extended shear tabs with the shape of the Fig. 10-19c of the AISC Construction Manual, the check for the thickness is missing in the report. Ref Feature (PBI) #1568164

Add Fixed end beams to the gravity beams for design.

Update AS3600 to latest version (2018) in Ram Concrete Module for concrete beam, column & wall design

Currently, RAM can design "Joists" but doesn't specifically design the members of the joist. As a joist designer, we would love to be able to design the sections of a joist per SJI (Double angles, webs, etc) This can be implemented by Bentley, or ...

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...

It is already widely used

Currently for beam to column connections, if the beam is HSS then the column must also be HSS. This is very limiting. It would be nice to allow HSS beam to WF column connections. The forces are often shear, moment & torsion. It would be great ...

Hi Team, Can we please have a feature where the Punching Shear in RAM Concept is checked as per the torsion strip as per AS3600 requirements, currently it is based on ANCON shear connector. Kind regards, A.Garg