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RAM SS Concrete Module - Add torsional design to Columns

Add torsional design to concrete columns to meet ACI requirements for seismic design.
about 2 years ago in RAM Structural System 0 Needs review

Concrete Column Slenderness Check to ACI 318

When the bottom of the Column is a foundation and user elects to use Col forces from RAM Concept whereby no Concept forces/moments and therefore RSS will use RAM Conc Analysis(for Col bottom forces and those moments are always negative), for a lac...
over 1 year ago in RAM Structural System 0 Needs review

Cancel Last Point

The ability to cancel last point when drawing an area load, deck assignment or mat foundation like you can in RAM Concept. It's especially frustrating when drawing a mat foundation and you accidentally click the wrong point and have to start over ...
almost 3 years ago in RAM Structural System 1 Needs review

RAM SS - Tapered Columns & Beams

Add a Tapered Column and Beam design options to all of RAM SS modules
about 2 years ago in RAM Structural System 0 Needs review

3D Wind Load View

It would be nice to be able to see the wind pressures on the 3D view of the building.
over 2 years ago in RAM Structural System 2 Needs review

Account for wall transfer loads on one-way deck

As far as I am aware, RSS does not track the load transfer when a wall is sitting on a one-way deck without a supporting beam or wall directly below. The loads from the wall above the deck is "lost". My firm does a lot of multi-family construction...
almost 3 years ago in RAM Structural System 0 Needs review

RAM SS-Option to turn off transverse beams bracing the bottom flange of support member

Similar to RAMS beam, I'd like an option to globally or individually turn off the bottom flange bracing of beams framing into a support member in the Gravity module. This is somewhat taken care of in the lateral frame module, where you can assign ...
almost 3 years ago in RAM Structural System 0 Needs review

Flexibility in modifying the tributary height for Wind Load exposure for buildings with varying levels of diaphragms

RAM wind load currently gets applied taking the trib height as half the difference between the two levels. It would be tremendously useful if there was an option to modify the trib height, thereby playing with full height or partial height exposur...
almost 3 years ago in RAM Structural System 0 Needs review

Concrete Column view/update options

Within the concrete column view update, the following improvements to be implemented - Display the story name (i.e. PH Roof) instead of just story number, including the size. The ability to change the size and even define new sizes (e.g. 18x36, 18...
almost 2 years ago in RAM Structural System 0 Needs review

sideplate slows down transitions

Models with large quantities of sideplate connections exhibit huge delays when changing between operations (show member info, view update, assignments, etc.). This extends to the concrete module which has nothing to do with steel. This issue has p...
8 months ago in RAM Structural System 0 Needs review