- Redeem training credits for training or services of your choice
- Design and analyze concrete slabs, mats, and rafts
- Model tendons
- Perform punching shear analysis
- Analyze long-term slab deflections
RAM
Concrete slab design software
Including 3 - 6 training credits
Powerful design task automation for concrete floors and foundations
Design post-tensioned and reinforced concrete floors and foundations efficiently and incorporate changes with powerful task automation. RAM Concept is the ultimate solution for concrete slabs, mats, and rafts. It empowers you to design floor systems cost-effectively, with exceptional visibility into the compliance, efficiency, and practicality of the design. The design work in RAM Concept can seamlessly extend into the rest of a project for building information modeling, documentation, and collaboration with other structural designers due to its ability to interoperate with other engineering applications and formats. RAM Concept can be used on reinforced, and conventionally reinforced concrete projects.
Add onto RAM Concept with the RAM Concept Post-Tension module. If you already have RAM Concept, you can expand beyond that with the add-on module, RAM Concept Post-Tension, in order to conquer post-tensioned projects.
Design and analyze slabs
Automate time-consuming tasks such as the layout of tendons, design spans, and column and middle strips. Quickly rework floors when you need to make geometric revisions. Eliminate tedious manual iterations with the cloud-based post-tensioned slab optimization feature in order to reduce total tendon, reinforcement, and studded shear reinforcement costs.
Analyze long-term slab deflections and perform load history analysis to calculate for deflections with accurate consideration of time-dependent material behavior, cracking, and load history. Easily consider the effects of cracking, creep, shrinkage, tension stiffening, and load sequence.
Model tendons more realistically
Model banded, distributed, or arbitrary tendons with virtually any profile in their true three-dimensional positions. Get a better understanding of the effects of tendons on the slab with tendon loading analyses that consider full 3D hyperstatic (secondary) effects, including restraint from shear walls and stiff columns.
Perform accurate punching shear analysis
Check punching shear capacity for any slab geometry and reinforce columns below slabs and at transfer columns. Simplify real punching geometry into standard interior, edge, and corner conditions. Automatically design studded shear reinforcement (studrails) to save days of design time.
Flexible Structural Modeling
- Elevated floors, mats, and rafts
- One-way and two-way slabs, pan joists, waffle slabs, beams, and girders
- Orthotropic or isotropic slab properties
- Drop caps, drop panels, and random thickenings of any shape at any location
- Openings of any shape at any location
- Wall, column, point spring, and line spring supports
- Zero-tension area springs to model soil
- Accurate modeling of irregular structures
- Imported CAD drawing as snapping background
- Automated meshing
Tendon Modeling and Design
- Banded, distributed, and arbitrary tendons with virtually any profile
- Automate tendon layouts over large areas
- Specify explicit tendon properties and quantities or a desired effective tendon force
- Automatic calculation of tendon profile based on desired balance load
- Friction losses including consideration of horizontal curves
- Analysis includes 3D hyperstatic (secondary) effects
- Post-tensioned slab optimization feature reduces total tendon, reinforcement, and studded shear reinforcement costs over entire floor
Loading Analysis
- Fx, Fy, and Fz point, line, and area force loads
- Mx and My point, line, and area moment loads
- Self-weight and tendon loadings calculated automatically
- Self-equilibrium loadings available for integrating floor-system analysis with building frame analysis
- Temperature and Shrinkage Loadings
- Filter loads through arbitrary-shaped patterns with on-pattern and off-pattern factora
- Pattern loading effects automatically enveloped together
- Live load reduction in accordance with ASCE 7, AS/NZS 1170.1, BS 6399-1, IBC, IS 875, UBC, or EC1
- Tributary/influence areas may be specified or calculated by the program
- Automatically generate load combinations for each design codeOptional user-specified load combinations (no limit)
Two load factors per loading, allowing easy enveloping of maximum and minimum forces
Zero-tension area spring results for mat/raft foundations
Analysis Method
- Determine response of floor to walking-induced vibrations
- Specify walking excitation areas
- Solve for modes of vibration and peak accelerations and velocities
- Long-term deflections considering cracking, creep, and shrinkage
- Specify any number of steps in load history
Steel Reinforcement Modeling and Design
- Auto-selection of reinforcement by program or design-check of specified reinforcement
- Specify a uniform mesh of reinforcing over an area, with only additional required reinforcing designed
- Automatic calculation and consideration of development lengths and hooks
- Enforce custom detailing preferences
- True 3D representation and display of tendons, reinforcing bars, and shear reinforcement
- Export reinforcement to Revit through Bentley?s Integrated Structural Modeling (ISM) format
Span and Cross Section Design
- Automated layout of design spans for entire floor, with the ability to manually revise
- Post-tensioned, reinforced, and hybrid concrete design
- Considers minimum, strength, initial service (transfer of pre-stress), service, and ductility design
- Cracked section analysis using appropriate material stress-strain curves for each component
- Retrieve an exhaustive design echo for each cross section using the auditor tool
- Tools that simplify the process of identifying, locating, and fixing design errors
- ACI 318, AS 3600, BS 8110, IS 456, EC2
Punching Shear Design
- Perform accurate punching shear analysis
- Automated generation of critical sections considering actual (not simplified) geometries
- Design for columns above or below the slab
- Consider biaxial moments
- Design of studded shear reinforcement (SSR)
- Check punching shear capacity for any slab geometry
- Reinforce columns below slabs and at transfer columns
- Simplify real punching geometry into standard interior, edge, and corner conditions
- Automatically design studded shear reinforcement (studrails) to save days of design time
Report Generation
- Fully customizable professional reports
- Reports are complete ready-to-submit calculations
- Reports can be printed to any page size or orientation
- Results tables can be output to spreadsheet format
Integration and Interoperability
- Fully compatible with Bentley?s Integrated Structural Modeling (ISM) format
- Integration with Bentley Cloud Services enabling access to a wealth of software services
- Run as an integrated module within RAM Structural System
- Import/export of floor levels from/to RAM Structural System
- Import of structure and loadings from STAAD
- Import and export of CAD drawings
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Multiple cores utilized but not required
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1GB recommended Hard Disk 2.5GB free disk space
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A Perpetual License is bought outright and owned indefinitely. You pay once, then pay an annual SELECT maintenance fee to keep your software updated and supported. It’s a shared network license, so it isn’t tied to one user.
An Annual Subscription is a 12-month subscription license you renew each year. It’s assigned to a named user and can be re-assigned every 30 days. Lower upfront cost, but access ends if you don’t renew.
In short: a Perpetual License is buying the software, while an Annual Subscription is renting access for the year.
It comes down to how long and how often you plan to use the software:
Choose an Annual Subscription if you want a lower upfront cost and no long-term commitment.
Choose a Perpetual License if you plan to use the software for many years. It is usually the cheapest option over the long run (around seven years or more).
Choose a Cloud Service Subscription if your usage is occasional or short-term and you want maximum flexibility. Keep in mind that CSS is charged at a premium rate, so it is not the most cost-effective choice if you use the same software regularly.
If you are not sure, just ask us. We will look at how your team works and recommend the option that saves you the most money.
It is simple and there is no disruption. Your software, your licenses, and your data all stay exactly as they are within your Bentley Account. The only thing that changes is who looks after you. CAD Journey can act as your dedicated partner for support, licenses, training, and advice. There is no cost and nothing changes.
Every license includes access to all the latest software features and updates, along with round-the-clock technical support. As a CAD Journey client, you also have our team of Bentley experts as your first point of contact for any question. Annual Subscriptions go a step further and include free one-on-one training and mentoring hours to help your team get up to speed.
Here is what to expect after you order:
1. Within 24 hours, your licenses are fulfilled and added to your account, ready to assign.
2. Within 48 hours, one of our Customer Success Managers reaches out to make sure you are set up and everything is working as it should.
From there, the main steps are registering each team member, assigning a license to each one, and having everyone install the software and sign in. We will walk you through all of it, or we can simply take care of the setup for you.
The CONNECTION Client is a small free app that sits on each user’s computer. Users sign in to it with their account, and that sign-in is what activates the software. It is also where users download updates and check which licenses they have. There are no activation keys or serial numbers to manage anymore, so signing in is all that is needed.
The administrator is the person who can manage users and assign licenses for your organization. You can also set up co-administrators so more than one person can help manage the account. This is useful if your IT team handles software, or if you want a backup for when the main administrator is away. We can help you set up the right people with the right access.
It depends on the license type:
– Annual Subscriptions are assigned to a named user, so you need one for each person who uses the software.
– Perpetual Licenses work as a shared pool, so they can be used across your team without being tied to one person.
If you are not sure how many licenses you need, we are happy to work it out with you.
Once users are registered your license administrator can begin assigning licenses.
1. Sign in to your license portal at connect.bentley.com.
2. Open the License Management area.
3. Choose the product and assign it to the user you want.
The user gets a confirmation email and can start using the software right away. If you get stuck at any point, just reach out and we will jump in.
New people first need to be registered as a user on your account before they can be given a license. An administrator can add them by entering their name and work email, and then assign a license to them. If you would prefer, send us the details and we will add and assign your new starters for you.
Yes, a practitioner license can be re-assigned as many times as needed on the first day it is assigned to a user.
After the initial 24-hour assignment period, the license will be locked for 30 days. At the end of the 30 day period the license will be available for re-assignment.
Any re-assignment will restart the 24-hour assignment clock, and will be followed by the 30 day assignment lock.
No. Software now activates through a simple sign-in. As long as a user is registered, has a license assigned, and signs in to the CONNECTION Client, the software will run. There are no keys to track or share.
SELECT is Bentley’s maintenance program for perpetual license holders. It gives you access to the latest software version, technical support, and license portability across devices. Without the SELECT program you can only utilize the version you purchased and lose access to updates. For most active users, SELECT is a requirement and letting it lapse can create complications as versions evolve.
Annual subscription users will lose access at the end of the term if they do not renew. The CAD Journey team will flag your upcoming renewals well in advance so that you’re never caught off guard.