Hi,
I watched the Bentley tutortial video "Analyzing Combined Steel & Masonry Buildings in RAM Structural System and RAM Elements" and built a simple building to play around. Basically I modeled a simple 2-story building enclosed by CMU shear walls, my intent is to model everything in RAMSS and export to RAM-Element for further detailing.
Funny thing is, when I exported the model to RAM-Elements, I'm once again confused how RAM-Elements distribute the loads to each CMU SW. Say for my first floor wind load distribution, ideally each SW (same length, same width, same everything) should take 25% of the lateral load on first floor but actually it's not even distribution (way off!), confused why it happened and if I can rely on RAM-Element in this design.
Thanks, hope you can resolve my questions here.