RAM Beam Design: Connection Check

RE: RAM Beam Design: Connection Check

Seth Guthrie — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:24:39 GMT

The .con table specifies this in the header. Here's a clip from the RamManager.pdf manual:

RE: RAM Beam Design: Connection Check

Brian S — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:20:12 GMT

Hi Seth, Thanks for the example connection check table. Do you have one for LRFD? I have my code set to LRFD but when running the connection check it provides values as "unfactored reaction". Do you have to change something in the .con file to get it to read out LRFD? Thanks, Brian

RE: RAM Beam Design: Connection Check

Marshall Carman — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:23:21 GMT

That was it.. .my mistake. Looking in ProgramFiles instead of ProgramData.

RE: RAM Beam Design: Connection Check

Seth Guthrie — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:28:22 GMT

Since Tables are editable we install them here by default: C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Engineering\RAM Structural System\Tables

You can confirm the location via Ram Manager - Criteria - Master Steel table or reading the ramis.ini file.

RE: RAM Beam Design: Connection Check

Marshall Carman — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:23:20 GMT

Hi Seth. Weird thing happened recently. Our RAM Structural System folders (path below) no longer has a tables folder in it.

C:\Program Files\Bentley\Engineering\RAM Structural System

My original Connection Check files are still accessible within the program, but I can't find them via the file folders, and I can't add or delete new tables. Did something change with how/where these files are stored?

RE: RAM Beam Design: Connection Check

Nik — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:32:28 GMT

Thanks a lot Seth! This can help me get started on!

RE: RAM Beam Design: Connection Check

Seth Guthrie — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 16:51:36 GMT

Here is one I happen to have. It goes in the tables folder,

C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Engineering\RAM Structural System\Tables communities.bentley.com/.../DBLANGLE.CON

RE: RAM Beam Design: Connection Check

Nik — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 16:33:25 GMT

Do you know where I can get a sample .con files, that I can edit per project spec and use it to check connections in RAM SS?

RE: RAM Beam Design: Connection Check

Seth Guthrie — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:32:00 GMT

We have some internal logic to identify beam to girder connections and we employ that in the framing check (i.e. the deep cope check), but it's not in the connection check. We would have to enhance the program to have 2 optional capacities for beam to column vs beam to girder. Is it safe to say the rotation of the column relative to the beam is not a factor here? Meanwhile I would run it with the more conservative of the two tables, identify the beams that fail, then recheck those with a second pass or by hand using the large capacity values where applicable.