Power, Flexibility, Ease of use,
Productivity, Affordability -
RAM Advanse.

More affordable than ever! Analysis and design. For the Widest Variety of Structures. For unmatched Productivity. All at a very low price.

RAM Advanse allows us to meet the ever growing challenges on complex projects while allowing us to keep on budget at the same time. - Chris Hector, Hope Engineering

RAM Advanse is the industry’s most productive tool for 2D or 3D Finite Element Analysis and Design, fully equipped with an extremely powerful analytical engine and unbelievable OpenGL based graphics. RAM Advanse’s intuitive and powerful modeling tools get even the most complex models built quickly. Delivering design options for the widest variety of structures, RAM Advanse is incredibly priced at only $1800! With a price this low, you cannot afford not to be using RAM Advanse! And with our new desktop pricing, you can equip your entire office with RAM Advanse at amazingly low prices! Check it out and watch your profitability soar by using RAM Advanse.

I really like the highly graphical nature of RAM Advanse. It is very easy to quickly make models and review the results immediately. - Albert F. Lagerstrom, Lagerstrom & Associates, Inc.

For the widest variety of structures.

The concrete design tools are at your fingertips and it details rebar 1-2-3! I cannot say enough good things about RAM Advanse. - Lance Greening, P.E.

A real Advanse in productivity.

No other product takes you where RAM Advanse can. From modeling to investigating design options to refining your designs, RAM Advanse allows you the freedom to explore. RAM Advanse is suitable for entire structures, including buildings, towers, platforms, stairs and tanks, as well as building components such as trusses, single beams, columns, footings and many more. RAM Advanse also includes physical member modeling and area load calculations, plus advanced numerical analysis methods for tension only members, tapered members, thermal loads, foundation springs, 2nd order analysis, and much more.

I have done several complex projects with RAM Advanse and it has saved me countless hours on those projects. - Albert F. Lagerstrom, Lagerstrom & Associates, Inc.

An Engineering Desktop System,
at Desktop Pricing.

Your engineers will use RAM Advanse every day on many types of projects. You will quickly find that every engineer in your office should be equipped with a copy. RAM Advanse Desktop Pricing makes this option extremely affordable.

RAM’s technical support staff is fantastic. With the fast-track types of projects that we work with, RAM helps us meet our deadlines. - Chris Hector, Hope Engineering Get it, try it and I think you will be pleased with the results that you find! - Paul Martineau, Martin Design

RAM Advanse System Features:

Modeling

• User customizable templates for frames, trusses, etc.
• Concurrent spreadsheet and graphical input/views
• Physical member and physical shell modeling
• Area loading
• Member grouping for optimization and ease of input
• Intuitive member selection, generation and manipulation capabilities
• Advanced automatic data generation capabilities
• Realistic rendering of structure in 3 dimensions
• Immediate graphical verification of all input parameters
• Library of predefined loading patterns
• User customizable member section profile templates

Analysis

• Tension only members
• Rigid floor option
• Foundation springs
• Thermal loads
• Tapered members
• Considers eccentricity due to offset columns and beams
• Iterative P-Delta, 2nd order analysis
• Dynamic analysis options
• Automatic self-weight calculations
• Allows imposed nodal displacements
• Automatically calculates member forces from applied pressures
• Fully integrates with RAM Connection for Steel connection design
• Graphical depiction of all analysis results including stress contour plots and animated mode shapes

Design

• Steel Design per AISC ASD and LRFD
  - Automatic K, Cb, and Cm calculations
  - Optimization or verification for user defined member groups
• Reinforced Concrete Design per ACI-318
  - Integrated design and detailing of beams, columns and footings
  - Interactive user controllable steel reinforcement selection
  - Calculation of lap length, development length, and cutoff points
  - Considers axial forces, biaxial bending moments, torsion and shear
• Wood Design per NDS - ASD
  - Extensive, customizable database of lumber shapes and materials
  - Includes design for glulam beams
• Cold-Formed Steel Design per AISI ASD and LRFD
  - Performs accurate design for standard or user defined section profiles

Wood Structures – sawn lumber and glulam beams, with extensive, customizable database of members for optimization and design.		Steel Structures – AISC ASD or LRFD optimization and design options, plus - new optional steel connection design, powered by RAM Connection.
Concrete Structures – including ACI-99 design and detailing options for beams, columns and footings.		Cold-Formed Steel Structures – includes AISI-1996 design options.