Browse By Tags

  • Combined footing tutorials

    Hello Everyone Please share with me the tutorials about a combined footings
  • Technical Forum on STEEL Buildings - Webinar

    Dear Structural Engineers, Whether your project is industrial or commercial or Infrastructure or residential we have it all covered in one bundle license. Join this 1 hour webinar to learn the complete workflow for Steel Building analysis, design, detailing…
  • Wrong Loading Combination for Beam Optimization

    I am working on a two story steel building and am experiencing issues with the beam optimization. RAM is currently using a loading combination for some beams, displayed below, that is not the maximum loading so the beams are designed too small. Instead…
  • Ram Elements Concrete wall Module (Stand alone)

    Ram Elements: I am currently trying to model a load bearing 8" concrete wall with 25'-0" opening. I have gravity loads acting in plane and wind load acting out of plane. I wanted to know if the concrete wall above the opening (about 4'-0") is designed…
  • SIG Workshop - RAM: Leveraging Capabilities to Empower Your Workflows

    Title: SIG Workshop - RAM: Leveraging Capabilities to Empower Your Workflows Host/Presenter: Ann Marie Garko-Hill, Senior Manager – Application Engineering, Bentley Systems, Inc. Date/Title: 25 February 2021 at 01:00 P.M. EST Register Now! This…
  • ERROR: NO REFERENCE LOAD CASE OF TYPE MASS/GRIVITY/DEAD/LIVE IS DEFINED FOR MASS MODELING.

    I tried it quite times looking at responses here still I could not resolved it can any one help me with ? and check in the file as I shared it here. 5807.TK_STR.STD
  • RAM Frame - Gravity Loads on Frame Members

    I have a system of "Other" walls that I'd like to pull line load reactions from. What is the difference between DL1 and DL2/ LL1 and LL2?
  • RAM SS V17.02.01 Release Notes

    RAM Structural System CONNECT Edition Version 17.02.01 SES Release Notes Release Date: March 5, 2021 This document contains important information regarding changes to the RAM Structural System. It is important that all users are aware of these changes…
  • Specifying and Designing Yield-Link Moment Connection in the RAM Structural System

    Comprehensive analysis and design of moment frames using the Simpson Strong-Tie Yield-Link moment frame connection is now available in the RAM Structural System. This document describes the use of this feature. Modeling Create the model as customary…
  • Slab Penetration Layout - Adjustable View Box

    In RAM Modeler, the Layout>Slab>Slab Penetration Layout dialog box is not adjustable - it would be beneficial to be able to make this view different sizes when you work on a project with a large amount of slab penetrations. For example the ability to…
  • RAM Elements Load Combinations

    When I use the "recover load conditions" button on the "Load conditions" panel on the home tab, I often end up with seemingly random loads on members. Some are user inputs and others are from area pressures. I keep clearing them out in the spreadsheet…
  • RAM Structural System Tilt-Up Workflow

    Overview Tilt-up walls are thin concrete panels. When a slender wall is subjected to axial compression and out-of-plane bending, second order effects must be considered. ACI 318 permits an amplified first order approach, elastic second order approach…
  • Beam Splice in RAM Elements

    I want to model the frame as shown in the picture below in RAM Elements. The clouded regions shown is the shear only transfer splice connection. All other connections are pinned connections. My question is, how do I model the frame in RAM Elements? …
  • RAM SS V17.02 Release Notes

    RAM Structural System CONNECT Edition Version 17.02 SES Release Notes Release Date: January 13, 2021 This document contains important information regarding changes to the RAM Structural System. It is important that all users are aware of these changes…
  • Opening Older RAM Files

    Hi All, The company I work for has been using RAM Structural System for a few decades now. One of the reasons we've decided to keep using RAM for all these years is because we are often acquired to renovate or make additions to an existing structure…
  • Microstation connect nutzt nicht ganze 32 GB Ram und ist deshalb sehr langsam? was kann ich da tun?

    Hab mir, da 8 gb für Microstation nicht reichen 32gb eingebaut, doch microstation hängt und spinnt weiter, da es diese 32gb nicht ausnutzt sondern nur maximal 5 gb benutzt, und dafür für einfache operationen bis zu 2 minuten braucht. (es reicht schon…
  • Microstation Connect uses only about 20 percent of the available Ram and is therefore very slow how can i fix that?

    So because 8gb wasnt enough for microstation i upgraded my PC to 32 gb of ram to make it faster. but now microstation refuses to use more than 5gb even though its obviously lagging and loading forever. simple modelling operations still take up to 1 minute…
  • SIG Workshop for India: Advance Slabs and Analysis Design

    Bentley Special Interest Group Series: "Modelling, Analysis, and Design of Concrete Buildings" Make plans to attend upcoming sessions of Bentley’s Special Interest Group virtual series: Modelling, Analysis, and Design of Concrete Buildings…
  • Processing Speed and RAM

    Hi, I am searching the relation between CPU/GPU and RAM while using Open Roads Designer Connect to define optimum values for our use. We need clear and easyly accesable information from Bentley on this which is starting to be one of the most important…
  • Design of Solid slab (Conventional slabs)

    Hello Everyone For a while, I was using an Advanced Concrete Design (RCDC) for the design of a solid slab. Today I tried to learn the RAM concept for the slab designs but I saw a design of strips that had never seen before (When I was using RCDC and…
  • Dummy beam

    Hello Everyone. I create a dummy beam with density=0 and E=0 (Figure.1) then I assign the beam (Figure.2) then Staad Error occurs( ***ERROR*** MATERIAL NAME MUST NOT CONTAIN ANY BLANK SPACE )(Figure.3), What is the solution?
  • SIG Workshop: Software de Análisis Estructural en Español – Análisis P-delta en RAM Elements

    SIG Workshop: Software de Análisis Estructural en Español – Análisis P-delta en RAM Elements Date/Time: 30 Septiembre 2020 at 11:00 A.M. CDT Presenter: Andrea Castelo, Ingeniera de aplicaciones, Estructural, Bentley Systems, Inc. Regístrese ahora …
  • Virtual SIG Workshop: RAM - From Modeling to Seismic Joints with the RAM Structural System

    Virtual SIG Workshop: RAM - From Modeling to Seismic Joints with the RAM Structural System Date/Time: September 24, 2020 at 01:00 P.M. EDT Presenter: Ann Marie Garko-Hill, Senior Manager – Application Engineering, Bentley Systems, Inc. Register Now…
  • Slab Edge Coordinates - Data Extraction

    I am trying to rebuild my RAM edge of slab outside of the program using node coordinates. I am currently using the "Data Echo" data export in RAM Structural System, but as can be seen in my screen shot, the "Data Echo" does not specify whether the Edge…
  • 'RAMDataAccess 2.0 Type Library' Missing

    I have a computer with RAM Structural System installed, but the 'RAMDataAccess 2.0 Type Library' reference in VBA is missing. Can I install this online or how do I get this crucial reference to be available on my computer?