The RAM Foundation module for the RAM Structural System provides integrated analysis, design, and drawing of spread, continuous and pile cap foundations.
The RAM Foundation module can increase your productivity more than ever before. RAM Foundation provides integrated analysis, design and structural drawings of spread, continuous and pile cap foundations. And it is a fully integrated module of the RAM Structural System, the world’s leading building analysis, design and drafting system. Seamless integration makes it one great design package.
Save time with RAM Foundation.
Because it is a fully integrated module of the RAM Structural System, the RAM Foundation module already knows  the information required to design your foundations, including column, wall and baseplate geometry as well as all foundation loading accumulated through the structure down to the foundations.
The RAM Foundation module will help you to quickly produce optimum foundation designs for your entire structure, based on your own, customized design criteria. With its interactive tools, you can refine your designs for both foundation dimensions and steel reinforcement. Once designed, your foundation calculations, details and foundation plans are produced with just a few clicks of the mouse.
Imagine the impact of that kind of productivity. In the stressful engineering environment, changes, often lots of them, are inevitable. Now, when changes occur, let the RAM Structural System, with the new RAM Foundation module, do all the extra work. Changes are automatically tracked all the way down to the foundations, so you don’t need to start all over. Checking existing foundations or regenerating new foundation designs is made easy.
"We use RAM Foundation on all our projects that have concrete spread or continuous footings. It has been great time saver, especially for lateral system footings. Being integrated with the superstructure model also provides huge time savings when changes occur."
- Steve Devine, Structural Engineer, Bala Consulting |
Consider the features and capabilities of the
RAM Structural System with the RAM Foundation module.
- Fully supports the ACI-318 and BS8110 design codes and numerous building codes including UBC 97, SBC 99 and BOCA 96/99
- Automatically generates code required load combinations for both Concrete Design and Soil Bearing Checks, and allows for user-defined custom load combinations
- Flexible user-defined optimization parameters allow you to get a preliminary design based on your standards and preferences, and to reach a final design with minimal effort
- Design process is fully interactive so changes can be made and the effect reported instantaneously
- Allows for automatic optimization or user controlled design of both foundation dimensions and reinforcing
- Designs conform to all code standards and limits including reinforcement ratio, spacing, development length and cover
- Performs Concrete Beam Shear Check
- Performs Punching Shear Check accounting for moments in columns or walls
- Produces complete and attractive design calculations, as well as foundation plan drawings and foundation details for CAD
- Fast and accurate solution for spread footings with axial loads and bi-axial moments, taking into account no-tension in soil
- Flexural reinforcement automatically selected for spread footings, with user-override capabilities
- Allows you to reduce the number of unique spread footings with option to design footings for maximum soil capacity or to use controlling reinforcement on all footings of the same size
- Allows unlimited number of columns, braces, and walls on a continuous footing
- Fast finite element analysis for continuous footings, taking into account no-tension in soil
- Shear and flexural reinforcement automatically selected for continuous footings
- Options to override reinforcement sizes or quantity along any part of continuous footings
- Interactive diagram of provided and required moment/shear envelopes in continuous footing View/Update dialog
- Sizes footings for uplift automatically, including user input safety factor
- Fast and accurate solution for pile cap with axial loads, bi-axial moments, shear and torsion
- Comprehensive pile cap check including column punching shear, single pile and double pile punching shear as well as beam shear
- Pile capacity check for compression, tension and shear
- Ability to add spread or pile cap foundations under columns located at the end of shear walls and continuous footings under the shear walls
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