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Status Needs review
Workspace RAM Elements
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 21, 2025

Include equations and references for demands/capacities for things like sliding resistance, etc, in Ram Elements footing module, similar to Ram Connection.

It would be very appropriate to include equations for demand/capacities in the report for things like sliding resistance, moment, shear, etc. For example, for sliding resistance, the passive equation, the cohesion equation, and the coefficient of friction determination. This would be similar to Ram Connection output in the report and ability to turn on equations. The manual is too generic. The reporting of the demands and the capacities (or resistance) for each item is appropriate and very helpful to the engineer validating the results. So for example providing the resistance due to each component (from foundation/soil interface, from passive pressure, from cohesion, etc.) providing the lateral resistances. As it currently stands, without reaching out for a service ticket, there is nothing indicating how these resistances are calculated with the specific equations as well as what values are actually calculated in a given model. The module and others are very helpful, but too black box and unable to validate, or at least not easily able to validate results.