RAM Elements

RAM Elements is a unique combination of a 3D finite element analysis/design program with structural engineering toolkit modules for every day engineering design needs.

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News and Events

• Web-Tapered Member Analysis and Design in RAM Elements V8i

  Read about how analysis and design per AISC Design Guide 25 is in RAM Elements

• RAM Elements V8i release 10.0.2 Is Available for Download

  Release Notes Here

• RAM Elements Will Be Released Soon!

  Take a look of what's coming soon in the new version of the best general purpose tool in the market.

• RAM Advanse Has a New Name

  With release 10.0 of the product, it also has a new name to reflect it's focus in Bentley's portfolio of structural analysis and design products.

• Structural Tract Announced and 2009 MCMC Conference

  This year's conference will include two days of seminars covering Bentley's Structural Analsyis & Design software for both buidings and bridges.

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Key Features

• Design of hot-rolled and cold-formed steel, wood, masonry, and concrete can be done, all within a single model in one interface.
• RAM Elements provides structural engineers with a toolkit set of modules for the analyis and design of structural elements, including: concrete beams, continuous beams, reinforced concrete columns, wood structures, trusses, spread or combined footings, retaining walls, tilt-up walls, concrete walls, and masonry walls.

• RAM Connection is also integrated grated with RAM Elements with an appropriate license. Steel connections can be designed without leaving the RAM Elements interface.
• Full 3D finite element analysis capabilities are also in RAM Elements.  

Files and Interoperability

• RAM Elements stores data in .ETZ files.
• RAM Elements can import data from models created in the RAM Structural System.
• With release 10.0, RAM Elements is 100% compatible with Bentley's Integrated Structural Modeling (ISM) format for structural model data exchange and history.

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Related products: RAM Connection, RAM Structural System, Integrated Structural Model