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News Release from: Bentley Systems | Subject: RAM Advance Version 8.0
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 August 2006
Engineering desktop capabilities
expanded
Bentley's RAM Advance Version 8.0 Expands Engineering Desktop Capabilities
In announcing Bentley's acquisition of RAM International last December, Buddy Cleveland, senior vice president, Bentley Software, promised to "advance RAM's entire product line, providing users with increasing capabilities" In keeping with that commitment, Bentley's RAM International Solutions centre has just released RAM Advance Version 8.0, a finite element analysis and design software system featuring a number of innovative engineering desktop capabilities
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Like earlier versions of RAM Advance, Version 8.0 is a general purpose structural analysis solution that provides advanced design features for hot-rolled steel, cold-formed steel, wood (lumber and glulam) and concrete, and can be used to design most types of structures.
However, its special set of structural design tools has been expanded to include not only modules for continuous beams of any material and concrete or masonry retaining walls, but also:.
* Tilt-up walls (with and without openings, simplified and finite element analysis).
* Masonry walls (including pilasters and lintels).
* Concrete and masonry shear walls (with and without openings).
Moreover, all five of these tools are available for both fully integrated or stand-alone use - making RAM Advance Version 8.0 the first and only finite element analysis and design system to offer this dual functionality.
Other innovative features include:.
* Improved and automatic high-quality meshing library for shells (CM2 MeshTools).
* New file format (*.ADV) with tool tips, thumbnails, and backward/forward compatibility with future RAM Advance versions.
* Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete (ACI 318-05).
* Structural Use of Concrete - British Standard (BS 8110-1: 1997).
* Reinforcement steel optimisation for beams, columns, footings, and retaining walls.
* Interaction diagrams for columns and walls.
* Compression-only springs.
* Option to add project information to models.
* Improved local (model) and global (program) views.
* STAAD Pro models importation.
* SDNF v3.0 exportation.
* Report customisation tool (company logo, legend, project, engineer, revision, etc).
Users of Bentley's RAM International product line with a current support agreement or warranty will receive RAM Advance Version 8.0 free of charge within the next 30 days. Request a free brochure from Bentley Systems ...
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