I am about to design the frame connection and I choose to use RAM Connection in staad.. but I find it difficult to use... my connection is a Shear and Moment resisting connection but the choices in Basic, and Smart are separate design for Moment and Shear, is their any hint on how to design that connection in one assignment. Please help me enlighten with this issue. Thank you
For some types of connections the part that resists the moment and the part that resists the shear are independent, such as a flange-plate moment connection with a double angle shear connection. For those situations assign both a smart shear connection and a smart moment connection to the same joint. In other cases, a single connection servers both duties, such as a moment end plate. In those cases assign just the one smart moment end plate (MEP) type.
It's worth noting, some major changes in how moment end plates are designed was implemented in Ram Connection v8, I assume you have a current enough version of STAAD.pro to see those