Hello, I created a model in 3D and was having no issues with it, until I "save as" ed the file to a different name. Now when I try to "design all" members the program force-closes, and when I try to design walls in the concrete module, I get an error…

In RAM Concepts I have a shear wall core and when looking at the mat forces it seems that the forces are concentrated at the ends of the wall and not distributing along the wall. This is causing my shear reinforcement to be very high. Is there a certain…

I am analyzing a 350ft+ multistory building which contains a square shear wall core. RAM Frame analysis is giving me excessive deflections (more than what I expect given the core dimensions w.r.t. floor dimensions). I wanted to know if RAM Frame would…

There is an article in STRUCTURE magazine ( http://www.structuremag.org/?p=9911 ) that describes using shell elements in FEA software to analyze complex masonry shear walls. Are there any resources or examples that provide more information on how to do…