• Elevated floors and mat foundations
• One-way and two-way slabs, pan joists, waffles, beams, 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
• Accurate modeling of irregular structures
• Zero-tension area (soil) springs
• Imported CAD drawing as snapping background
• Automated Meshing

Tendon Modeling

• Banded, distributed and arbitrary tendons
• Friction losses including consideration of horizontal curves
• Analysis includes 3D hyperstatic (secondary) effects

Loading Analysis

• Fx, Fy, and Fz point, line, and area force loads
• Mx and My point, line, and area moment loads
• Line loads (force and moment) can vary linearly from end to end
• Area loads (force and moment) can vary linearly in two directions
• Self-weight and tendon loadings calculated automatically
• Self-equilibrium loadings available for integrating floor-system analysis with building frame analysis from any source

Pattern Loading

• Loads can be filtered through arbitrary-shaped patterns with on-pattern and off-pattern factors
• Patterns loading effects automatically enveloped together

Live Load Reduction

• ASCE 7-02, AS/NZS 1170.1:2002, BS 6399-1:1996, IBC 2003, IS 875-1987, UBC 1997
• Arbitrary loading patterns may be specified
• Tributary/influence areas may be specified or calculated by the program

Report Generation

• Fully customizable professional reports
• Reports are complete ready-to-submit calculations
• Reports can be printed to any page size or orientation

• Automatically generated load combinations for each design code
• Optional user-specified load combinations (no limit)
• Two load factors per loading, allowing easy enveloping of max and min forces
• Zero-tension area spring results for mat/raft foundations

Span and Cross Section Design

• Automated layout of design spans
• Post-tensioned, reinforced, and hybrid concrete design
• Strength design (bending and shear)
• Initial service design (transfer of prestressing forces)
• Service design
• Ductility design
• Cracked section analysis
• Long-term deflections considering cracking, creep, and shrinkage
• ACI 318-99, ACI 318-02, AS 3600-2001, BS 8110-1997, IS 456-2000

Punching Shear Design

• Automated generation of critical section considering actual (not simplified) geometries
• Design for columns above or below the slab
• Considers biaxial moments
• Design of SSR (studded shear reinforcement)

Integration Features

• Import of structure and loadings from RAM Structural System
• Export of column and wall geometry to RAM Structural System
• Export of column and wall reactions to RAM Structural System
• Import of structure and loadings from STAAD
• Import and Export of CAD drawings

Other Features

• Multiple and mixed unit systems (US, SI and MKS)
  
• Strip Wizard for 2D modeling
• Industry leading technical support