RAM Concept
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Concrete slab design software
- Design and analyze concrete slabs, mats, and rafts
- Model tendons
- Perform punching shear analysis
- Analyze long-term slab deflections
About this software subscription: This Virtuoso Subscription includes a 12-month practitioner license of this software, that comes with Keys (credits) to unlock training and services.
Powerful Concrete Design Task Automation
Design post-tensioned and reinforced concrete floor and foundation systems efficiently using powerful automation features. Automate time-consuming modeling tasks, such as the layout of tendons, design spans, and column/middle strips. Leverage comprehensive design algorithms to deliver highly optimized and cost-effective designs. Accurately predict long-term slab deflections with rigorous consideration of time-dependent concrete material behavior, cracking, and loading sequence. Quickly rework models and designs when geometric changes are required.
Accurate Post-Tensioning Analysis
Model banded, distributed, or arbitrary tendons with virtually any profile in their true three-dimensionally positions. Get a better understanding of the effects of tendons on the slab with tendon loading analysis that consider full 3D hyperstatic (secondary) effects, including restraint from shear walls and stiff columns.
Comprehensive Punching Shear Design
Calculate punching shear stress for any slab geometry with consideration of slab openings and edges. Check punching shear capacity at columns below slabs and at transfer columns. Auto-design shear stud rail reinforcement (SSR) when required or specify-check SSR with user-defined properties.
Implemented Design Codes
- ACI 318-99 through ACI 318-19
- AS 3600-2001 through AS 3600-2018
- Eurocode 2-2004
- BS 8110-1997 with TR 43
- CAN/CSA A23.3-04
- IS 456-2000
Structure Types
- Elevated slabs (one-way, two-way, and waffle slabs)
- Podium slabs or transfer plates
- Beam/slab systems (pan joists, beams, and girders)
- Mat/raft foundations
- Post-tensioned and/or reinforced concrete
Modeling Features
- Drop caps, panels, and slab steps of any shape
- Openings of any shape at any location
- Wall, column, point spring, and line spring supports
- Meshed rigid support zones at columns and wall supports
- Zero-tension area springs to model soil
- Imported CAD drawing as a snapping background
- Automated meshing
Loading Features
- Program-generated or unlimited user-specified load combinations for each design code
- Load patterns of any shape
- Lateral self-equilibrium loadings for integrating 3D building analysis results with RAM Concept’s floor analysis
- Temperature and shrinkage strain loadings
Advanced Analysis Methods
- Calculate long-term deflections that consider cracking, creep, shrinkage, and load history
- Calculate walking-induced vibration response (vibration modes, peak acceleration, and velocities)
Report Generation
- Customizable, professional reports
- Audit reports with detailed design calculations for design sections and punching shear checks
- Calculation result tables with spreadsheet export option
Tendon Modeling and Design
- Model banded, distributed, and arbitrary tendons (bonded or unbonded) with virtually any profile
- Rapidly generate tendons or define tendons manually
- Specify effective tendon forces or consider varying tendon forces with program-calculated friction losses
- Automatically calculate tendon loadings along profiles, including horizontal sweeps
- Design for 3D hyperstatic (secondary) effects
- Check precompression limits and plot average precompression across design strips
- Optimize post-tensioned floors to reduce total tendon, reinforcement, and SSR costs (limited access cloud service)
Steel Reinforcement Modeling and Design
- Design with auto-selected program reinforcement or check designs with user-specified reinforcement only
- Specify a uniform mesh of reinforcing over an area and design with additional required program reinforcement
- Automatically calculate development lengths with program-detailed hooks
- Enforce custom span detailing preferences
- Export steel reinforcement to Revit through Bentley’s iTwin® Analytical Synchronizer
Span and Cross Section Design
- Generate design spans/strips automatically for the entire floor, with the ability to manually revise
- Consider minimum, strength, initial service (transfer of pre-stress), service, and ductility design code requirements
- Complete cracked section analyses using appropriate material stress-strain curves for each component
- Design for twisting moments (Mxy) using Wood-Armer or other methods
Punching Shear Design
- Generate critical sections automatically considering complex geometries
- Design with auto-selected or user-selected SSR
Integration and Interoperability
- Compatible with Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, iTwin Design Review, and iTwin Analytical Synchronizer, which includes Revit integration
- Design with auto-selected or user-selected SSR
- Python scripting API
- Import/export of floor levels from/to RAM Structural System mport of structure and loadings from STAAD®
- Import and export of CAD drawings
Processor
Multiple cores utilized but not required
Operating System
Windows 10 or later
RAM
1GB recommended Hard Disk 2.5GB free disk space
Display
256MB video card with DirectX 9 compatible (DirectX 10 compatible recommended)
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