• Shear wall design

    Good Day fellow colleagues, I have tested two models to complete a shear wall design using staad pro. In one model I included only the shear walls, beams and columns and in the other model I included all of the above mentions elements plus the slab…
  • shear wall design using plates

    Good day Everyone, I wish to design a shear wall manually (by hand) using the output from my analysis in staad. Therefore I modeled the shear wall using plates rather than the surface option, however I find it quite difficult to get useful values…
  • Problems associated with modelling of abutment of bridges? What is the actual approach?

    I am trying to compare the vertical reaction I am getting in piles of an abutment of a 15m span railway bridge with manual calculation. I have modeled the abutment but the reaction I am getting is not representing the actual scenario. I am getting warnings…
  • RAM Shear Wall Design Report

    Hi, I am currently using the RSS version 15.03. I've completed the shear wall design with graphical reinforcement output. However, i cannot seem to output the design report (which i could easily do with Column Design). Is the function available…
  • RAM Concrete Shearwall UK

    I'm trying to use RAM Concrete for shear wall design, however the bar templates whether manual or auto only appear to have US bar sizes not UK ones. This is of regardless of which design code is selected. For instance in the UK a 16mm dia bar is popular…