How to model sloping parapet walls in RAM Structural System
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…
RAM Gable Roof Modeling
I am trying to model a gable roof. I understand that this needs to be accomplished by adjusting the heights of the ridge beam but am having trouble defining two separate slab polygons. I am able to successfully model one half of the gable roof and have…
RE: generate wind load using staad pro as ASCE
STAAD.Pro does not automatically generate wind loading on the roof. Please refer to my post in the following thread for more discussion on this topic
http://communities.bentley.com/products/structural/structural_analysis___design/f/5932/p/116980/359851#359851…
Faster Way To Model Sloped Roofs?
I know that sloped roofs are generally modeled in RAM SS by adjusting column heights, and I've used this method in the past for simpler roofs. Is there a way in RAM SS to define a plane and extend/cut the columns to that plane? Or a way to achieve something…
Design of Truss and Structure
Hello!
I'm a CE student and im trying to design a structure made up of steel.
I would like to know what connection do I actually use for the support on trusses, and on STAAD.Pro do I place the truss on my structure or do I analyze the structure…
instabilities in this warehouse staad model
Can you please check this model? im getting instabilities. thanks
kindly copy and paste to editor
STAAD TRUSS START JOB INFORMATION JOB NAME Tenement JOB CLIENT PFMC JOB NO 036 JOB REV 0 JOB PART SUPERSTRUCTURE steel ENGINEER NAME jade ENGINEER…
Undergraduate modeling 5 story structure in RAM Structural System
Hello all,
I'm an undergraduate modeling a 5 story building in RAM Structural System for a structure class. I have several basic issues:
1. Load inputs: Snow = 30 psf, LL = 100 psf, DL = 3000 kips
QUESTION: Do I differ the loading between Floors…
Fabric sheeting on top of a structure
Hi,
I'm modeling a structure that consists of a series of concrete columns spreaded on the perimeter of a rectangular shape building, and attached to a channel concrete caps that running on top of perimeter columns, then the channel beam is connected…