Hello, I have a one-story building with sloping parapets on the exterior walls and flat parapets on an interior portion (see white colored parapets in image below). Currently, my model has the floor and the roof, with the roof having the deck and…

I have set up a model in RAM. It is A steel frame sat on an RC base. I have run the data check and there are no errors or warnings. I have run the steel beam design and it has given me section sizes. However, every time I try to run the steel…

Dear All, I want to ask about the vibration of machine. As far as I know, we need to input as sine function. Am I right? I assumed the weight of machine is 110 kN and assumed that 10% of weight will be placed as the vibration. I use…

Hi, I've got a RAM model with some concrete gravity walls. When I try to run the RAM Concrete analysis I get an error message stating "Tolerance error at coordinates ("1350,360,396). Check if all members at this coordinate are aligned." At the coordinate…

hello everyone, anybody can help me to work out the issue, which showing the following warning after running analysis. *WARNING* PLATE NO. 4(JOINTS 51 - 53 - 52 - 50) IS BADLY SHAPED, WARPED, NOT CONVEX, OR NOT NUMBERED COUNTER-CLOCKWISE.…

I think staad foundation advance still needs to be improved. Here are some suggestions. 1- When we import load cases and combinations from staad, we have to change description of every load and load cases by selection each one by one (i.e it is primary…

A question to be clarified: for the building desing, normally, the plate will be used and divided/inclosed by beams, when the specificatoin of master/slave shall be used? and when we consider the drift or others result, what 's the difference from…