Did you know RAM Structural System software offers many tools for modeling building structures? You can learn more about “Modeling Gravity Loads” with this course that shows you how to model surface loads, line loads, snow loads, and point loads.

These tools will allow you to precisely place the loads on the model at their exact locations, ensuring an accurate design and analysis. Take advantage of RAM Structural…

Concrete building designers continue your learning with the “Designing Concrete Members” course. Like its companion course, Designing Concrete Slabs, previously featured, your learning will focus on designing concrete members according to latest US and/or international design standards using the STAAD.Pro Reinforced Concrete Designer software.

Take advantage of the RC Designer’s graphical user interface to…

Learn how to utilize STAAD.Pro’s graphical user interface to quickly assign properties to concrete members and concrete plates in the “Assigning Properties to Concrete Structures” course. Additionally, you will learn to:

• Utilize the master/slave nodal specification to simulate a rigid floor diaphragm in STAAD.Pro.
• Utilize the member specifications to incorporate property reduction factors as required…

STAAD.Pro users familiar with the fundamentals of designing steel buildings who want to expand their knowledge to become more proficient should consider the “Assigning Properties to Steel Structures” course. Learn how to:

               • Utilize STAAD.Pro’s steel section database to quickly assign properties to all steel members.

               • Utilize the Master/Slave nodal specification to simulate a rigid floor diaphragm…

Post-tensioning systems require specialized knowledge and expertise to fabricate, assemble and install. Let Bentley help you understand how to utilize your RAM Concept software to better understand “Modeling Post Tensioned Tendons”

• Utilize design strips in RAM Concept to specify post-tensioned slab design and all required code parameter

• Take advantage of RAM Concept’s ability to generate distributed…

AISC 360 gives requirements for the analysis and design of steel structures. One method of obtaining a valid analysis is the Direct Analysis Method. While not a single prescribed analysis technique, rather, it is a methodology consisting of a set of requirements that affect criteria, member stiffness, analysis methodology, loads and load combinations. With Bentley’s “Designing Steel Members according to the…

Learn how to apply RAM Concept tools to determine accurate deflection calculations for thinner, more efficient concrete slabs utilizing a relatively high compressive strength concrete. Bentley’s “Calculating Load History Deflections” course will show you how to incorporate the effects of factors such as: creep, shrinkage, cracking, tension stiffening, and load history into your comprehensive deflection calculation…

RAM Frame users continue your learning on the design of lateral steel members. Last week we looked at Generating Lateral Loads and this week we continue with the “Specifying Rigid, Semirigid, and Pseudo-Flexible Diaphragms” course.

With RAM Frame you can save time by accurately generating lateral loads and then distributing those loads to the vertical lateral force resisting system based upon the diaphragm…

Concrete building designers: Do you want to ensure you design concrete slabs according to latest US and/or international design standards? Learn how to get the most from your STAAD.Pro Reinforced Concrete Designer software with the “Designing Concrete Slabs” course.

• Generate load combinations in STAAD.Pro to ensure that the loads are applied to a concrete structure to accurately incorporate P-Delta effe…

In July this year we released a new version of STAAD.Pro V8i SELECTseries 5 (20.07.10.64), which included a number of enhancements principally with the addition of Russian and Canadian design codes and also designed for use on Russian projects.  However despite extensive testing, after the release we were notified that some of these enhancements unfortunately included a number of errors.  We posted notification of the issues…

Maximizing the capabilities of RAM Structural System software can increase your productivity by performing the tedious and time-consuming functions specific to lateral load calculations for wind and seismic to fully incorporate the code requirements of the ASEC 7.

Bentley’s “Generating Lateral Loads” course will teach you how to:

• Create Seismic Load Cases that will instruct RAM Frame to calculate the…

STAAD.Pro users who work on the design of steel buildings will benefit from two courses designed to help you more efficiently complete project requirements and more effectively incorporate all code requirements.

“Generating Wind Loads” addresses the ASCE 7 Main Wind Force Resisting System code requirements. Learn how to:

• • Create Wind Load Definitions for the Windward Wall, Leeward Wall, and Side Walls that…

STAAD.Pro users who work on the design of steel buildings will benefit from two courses designed to help you more efficiently complete project requirements and more effectively incorporate all code requirements.

“Generating Seismic Loads” addresses the code requirements of the IBC Equivalent Lateral Force Procedure. Learn how to:

• • Create a Seismic Load Definition that will instruct STAAD.Pro to calculate…