Lately I've been running into issues with my lateral analysis on a large, square steel framed building. The roof is an 1-1/2" metal deck that slopes in one direction and drops 10' over the length of the building, which I've modeled as a semirigid diaphragm…

I have a relatively tall screen wall at the roof level - about 20ft tall - around a mechanical area. The structure is kicked back into the roof diaphragm. What is the best way to model it so that RAM Frame accounts for its wind surface area? The footprint…

Hi, When am applying the wind load,some portions are not getting affected by wind. It is the place wherever i did offset to columns... For getting the perfect structural model,i have to offset the columns.But wherever i did the offsets,there no wind…