I'm currently trying to design special reinforced concrete structural walls for a parking deck in a high-seismic area using the Concrete Wall module in RAM Structural System. For some of the vertical section cuts I've made, the value of V e remains just…

I have a hanging concrete column supporting two levels ("Ramp" and " Level B1"). The column is supported by a concrete beam on Level 1. The factored tension load in the column, from the Concrete Column module, shows -660k (tension). In the Concrete Beam…

More often than not, RAM Concrete stops responding after updating member database for an element. This seems to occur with all models that I am working on. I cannot save any modifications to concrete beam and column designs. Is there a fix or an update…

In RAM Concrete, when I specify the Criteria: Column Design: Longitudinal reinf. ratio minimum to 0.005 (meaning 0.5%) it still gives warnings saying I do not have the 1% minimum. Is there a way to specify less than 1% or is 1% the cut off? Thank…

I have an 8"x16" concrete beam and in the end span of a multi-span condition, it says the bottom flexural beam reinforcement fails code limit by 1 bar. I have 2-#5 bars currently for all spans and for every other span, this is adequate and meets all code…

i have done the rcdc, column and slab but when comes to beam are shown the beam lines is missing

I am working through the column design and I have isolated just one load combination to try and verify some results I see for the slenderness issues I am having. I am not, however, able to verify the Cm value. I know that was suppose to be a bug that…

I have a transfer condition where I have a cantilever beam with a back span to another column. When I look at the shear in the column from dead load only in Concrete Analysis, it gives me 410k but when I look at the Concrete Column design module it says…

When designing concrete shear walls, I get a design warning that "Required SBE per 18.10.6.2 extends into zone not designated as boundary" (ACI 318-14). I have the entire wall flange confined, and yet I still get this warning. Is this a program error…

When designing a concrete column in SDC D, I noticed that RAM is enforcing the transverse reinforcing spacing requirements from 18.7.5.3 (ACI 318-14). However, when checking induced moments and shears due to lateral displacements in 18.14.3.2, ACI does…

I analyze my model using ram structural system and design the shear wall using ram concrete but I found out that my shear wall located at transfer level have exceptionally high shear force.

After using "Design All" in the Ram Concrete Walls, I see bars that are green and bars that are blue. I haven't "frozen" any designs yet. Why are some of the bars colored blue? Thanks!

As shown in the image above, a project we have has steel beams connected to concrete columns. Based on geometry alone there should be a moment applied to the column during design in the Concrete module. Added to this, the red beam on the left has a gravity…

RAM Concrete crashes (just closes out) when it gets to the final steps. The model never had an issue before. Has anybody ever come across this? Can I upload my model?

Hi Seth, Is there a way for Ram Concrete to only check the stress-based requirement of 18.10.6.3 in ACI 318-14 and ignore the displacement-based check of 18.10.6.2? It seems that the displacement based check produces some oversized boundary elements…

Does Ram Structural System allow you or design steel coupling (link) beams between concrete shearwalls?

Hello! I wish to design a mat slab supported on timber piles in RAM Concept. Would anyone suggest the right way of modeling this in RAM concept and also the properties that would be idea to assume for timber piles? Thank you!

I am getting the me ssage "attempted an unsupported operation" while accessing the design checks tab in the beam design criteria. What does this mean?

I am running a model in the Ram SS Concrete module and getting a few errors with the moment magnification factor exceeding 1.4. When I attempt to back-calculate the results the program is getting, I am not getting the same numbers. So my question here…

Hello, I am currently working on a concrete building with the lateral load resisting system being composed of coupled shear walls. I have been using RAM SS Concrete to design the rebar so far. There are doorway openings in some of the walls and I will…

I would like to get member column/beam forces using RAMDataAccess. The force that I'm referring to can be obtained from following: RAM Manager > RAM Concrete > Process > Results > Member Forces. From here, I can select load cases and forces ie. axial…

Hi, In the RAM Concrete column design module, there is an issue with the shear force calculation for a SMF column. When the initial design is run by selecting a column with the "view/update" command, a design shear force is calculated. Then if the column…

Hi, I'm running a ASCE 7-10 Response Spectra load case in RAM Frame for a concrete moment frame project. When designing the moment frame beams in RAM Concrete I've noticed that a very small number of them seem to have very atypical moment diagrams,…

Hi, When running the joint shear checks in RAM concrete for a SMF, I'm finding that the joint concrete strength is set to the concrete strength of the beam, not the concrete strength of the column. Is there an option to change the concrete strength…

When RAM concrete performs its analysis on a floor by floor basis, how does it construct the columns for analysis? If I have a sloping floor and there is a column that is only 0.1' high to the next level, but really that is a dummy height to make the…