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Adding continuous footing design option to CMU or concrete wall design shells

Using the analysis results from FEM and wall end support node reactions of shells, it would be great to have the option to design continuous footings via the foundation module similar to the spread and combined footings design module, or via extra...
7 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.
over 1 year ago in RAM Elements 1 Needs review

Concrete Wall module - Add a report section to show boundary elements geometric checks

Enhancement submitted on behalf of Taye Ojo, from Jacobs Engineering Group. CS0222072 – PBI PRODUCT BACKLOG ITEM 1509265: Is there a way to include in the stresses that are compared vs 0.2F´c for the check of section 18.10.6.3.
4 months 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 2 years ago in RAM Elements 1 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 2 years ago in RAM Elements 1 Needs review

Import from other Ram Elements Model

Sometimes I have two models and would like to combine them.Unfortunately the OpenRE format does not include steel design properties. I would like to either add Steel design properties to the OpenRE file and/OR add an option to import directly from...
4 months ago in RAM Elements 1 Needs review

NDS Cr values for assemblies.

Enhancement submitted on behalf of John Gruber. CS0134441 - PBI PRODUCT BACKLOG ITEM 1526907: NDS Cr values for assemblies. My member I was analyzing is 4-2x12. Therefore, there are four 2” nominal thickness members and are more than three members...
2 months ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review

List of Ram elements improvements - better user experience

See attached files.
over 1 year ago in RAM Elements 7 Needs review

Round Openings in Shells

Could we get the option for other than rectangular openings in shells? Round openings in particular would be very helpful, especially in an FEA program where sharp corners create large stress concentrations that may not even be present when many o...
3 months ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review

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 year ago in RAM Elements 0 Needs review