Can a temperature or thermal load be applied in RSS? I have a cast-in-place post-tensioned parking garage that I am using RSS and RAM Concept to design. Is it possible to account for thermal effects like shrinkage and what is the best way to do this?
You can add thermal loading in Ram Concept now, but not in Ram Structural System. We had a webinar on this recently.
Link to webinar registration page for on-demand access:
https://gateway.on24.com/wcc/eh/2028083/lp/2581548/bentley_webinar_designing_for_temperature_and_shrinkage_loads_using_ram_concept/
Thank you for the link. If temperature and shrinkage loads are applied in Concept, will the reactions be exported to RSS and considered in the concrete column design module?
Unfortunately, temperature and shrinkage reactions are not exported back into RAM Concrete for column design at this time.