3D Structural analysis and Design Software
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Perform analysis and design of virtually any structure in one affordable application
What is RAM Elements?
RAM Elements is a 3D structural analysis and design software that allows you to quickly perform 3D finite element analysis – of almost any type of structure or structural component. Complete your steel, concrete, cold-formed steel, timber, and masonry projects, regardless of complexity, on time and on budget.
It is commonly used to design trusses, continuous beams, and frames of all types, as well as retaining walls, masonry walls, tilt-up walls, shear walls, and footings.
You have two choices to obtain RAM Elements, either by Annual Subscription or Perpetual License.
12-month subscription
Virtuoso Subscription
Bentley’s eStore, Virtuosity, offers a convenient way to lease a 12-month license of Bentley software for a low, upfront cost. Every online purchase through the eStore comes as a Virtuoso Subscription which includes training.
With no contract required, it’s easy to get started quickly.
One-time purchase with support
Perpetual License with SELECT
A perpetual license of Bentley software is a one-time purchase, with an optional yearly maintenance subscription, called SELECT. This includes 24/7/365 technical support, learning resources, and the ability to exchange licenses for other software once a year. With SELECT, you will benefit from:
- License pooling, so you can access your software from multiple computers.
- Contact us for pricing options or to arrange your quotation
Analysis
- Dynamic analysis (eigenvalue and response spectra) with CQC, SRSS and ABS methods for superposition and subspace iteration, Ritz vectors and Lanczos/Arnoldi for eigen analysis
- Iterative nonlinear P-Delta analysis
- Linear Buckling analysis (Lanczos/Arnoldi or Subspace iteration)
- Tension-only members
- Compression-only springs
- Springs to connect members for semi-rigid joints, setting the rotational stiffness at the member ends
- Flexible or rigid floor diaphragms
- Automatic mass generation with or without the need for rigid diaphragms
- Prismatic and real tapered member analysis (exact stiffness finite element)
- In-plane and out-of-plane stresses in shells
- Allows imposed nodal displacements
- Import of DXF, STAAD.Pro, RAM Structural System, OpenRE and SAP2000as well as full integration with Structural Synchronizer (ISM) Export to DXF, SDNF, OpenRE and RAM SBeam
Design
- Hot rolled steel design per AISC 360-16, 2010 and 2005 (in both ASD or LRFD), AISC 341-16, 2010 and 2005, BS 5950-1:2000, AS 4100-1998, CSA S16-09 and NBR 8800-08
- Specialty checks for tapered members (AISC DG 25) and member torsion design (AISC DG 9)
- Cold-formed steel design per AISI S100-16, 2012, 2007 and 2001
- Reinforced concrete design per ACI 318-14, 11, 08, and 05, plus BS 8110-1:1997
- Reinforced/unreinforced masonry design per ACI 530-13,11, 08, and 05 in ASD and SD
- Wood design (sawed lumber, timber, or glulam) per ANSI/ AF&PA NDS-2005 in ASD and LRFD
Design & Detailing Modules
- Reinforced concrete beam, column, and footing design
- Designs for flexure, shear, and torsion for beams
- Designs for axial, bi-axial bending, shear, and slenderness effects for columns
- Seismic provisions for column detailing
- Calculation of lap length, development length, and cutoff points
- Retaining wall design
- Analysis and design of reinforced or unreinforced concrete or masonry retaining walls
- Options to define cantilever, gravity, or restrained retaining walls (with a lateral restraint and pinned or fixed bases)
- Tapered stems or stems with several blocks with thickness and reinforcement changes
- Axial loads on the stem are considered (with or without eccentricity)
- Reinforced concrete shear wall design
- Consideration of boundary elements as columns or flanges
- Analysis of the wall with FEM
- Vertical concentrated loads with or without eccentricity
- Vertical distributed in-plane loads
- Continuous beam design
- Tilt-up wall design
- Steel, wood, or concrete beams
Automatic skip loading - Fixed, pinned, or compression-only springs for the bottom support of the wall
- Simplified or finite element analysis methods
- Automatic design according to the ACI 551 code in addition to ACI 318
- Vertical concentrated and distributed in-plane loads: dead or live, with or without eccentricity lateral distributed out-of-plane loads: wind or seismic
- Isolated or continuous footings option
- Masonry wall design
- Bearing walls, shear walls, columns, and lintels
- Unreinforced or reinforced bearing and/or shear walls
- FEM (finite elements method) analysis of the wall