BE Magazine Volume 5, Issue 2 - (Page 28) BUILDING development phase of the project using the RAM Structural System, Bentley’s analysis and design program specifically for buildings. The team was then able to generate complete gravity, lateral, and foundation designs through integration of RAM Steel, RAM Frame, and RAM Foundation within the RAM Structural System program. The tight integration enabled KNA to streamline its design process and provide a higher level of coordination between the Mesa High School, however, KNA planned to take even greater advantage of RAM structural tools and their DXF export capabilities. By taking part in a two-day training session on RAM Frame, the lateral analysis and design program, team members took full advantage of the program capabilities and became more confident in their lateral designs. RAM Frame performs additional special seismic code design and detailing checks for members and joints, based on AISC 341–05, AISC 1997–LRFD, UBC 1997–LRFD, or UBC 1997–ASD. In addition, the team added RAM Foundation to complete an integrated foundation analysis and design and to create foundation plans as easily as floor and roof plans. By eliminating the need to mark up plans and have them drafted, KNA not only cut down on production time, but also on quality assurance time. There is no longer any need to verify coordination between the structural model and the drawings. The ability to export DXF files from the RAM products allowed the fourperson structural design team to take the construction documents from design development to a suitable level for submitting to California’s Division of the State Architect in just four weeks. By implementing Bentley’s RAM Structural System solutions to incorporate the v Located on a 62-acre site, the 249,000-square-foot campus will house 82 classrooms and diverse structural systems of Murrieta up to 2,200 students Mesa High School, KNA estimated that it saved between four and six weeks on the structural design gravity and lateral models. Because these three RAM modules process. It also recouped its investment of two days of RAM Frame operate from a single model, the integration of the gravity, lateral, training and the purchase of additional RAM software on this and foundation programs reduced the number of files and printed project alone. calculations KNA had to provide to the enforcement agency. “RAM’s software and training allowed us to not only meet chalIn addition, KNA used RAM Connection to design the seismic lenging deadlines, but to do so with unparalleled levels of coordibrace connections and drag connections. RAM Connection can be nation and accuracy,” Randall concluded. “The on-time delivery of completely integrated with the RAM Structural System for intethe project documents reflected a greater level of completion than grated connection design. KNA then imported the building model, what would have been possible without RAM products. The return including gravity and lateral loads from the RAM Structural System, on investment is reflected in the time savings.” into RAM Advanse, Bentley’s structural toolset program, to complete the masonry shear wall design. RAM Advanse is frequently used by structural engineering firms to analyze masonry walls and design tilt-up walls, retaining walls, and concrete shear walls. B U I L D I N G N E W S FROM BENTLEY “The integrated RAM solutions allowed us to develop design documents that completely coordinated with the calculations in a Bentley Institute Press Announces Second Printing time frame that would have previously been unheard of,” said of Architectural Geometry >>more Randall. “We were also able to focus CAD staff on other areas of the drawings, which in the end produced a set of documents supeBentley Releases RAM Advanse Version 9.0 >>more rior to what the firm could have produced without the products.” KNA had some experience with the RAM Structural System, as it Bentley Releases RAM Structural System Version 11.3 had previously used the analysis and design capabilities of this pro>>more gram and its DXF export function to create structural floor and roof framing plans. To handle the structural engineering for Murrieta 28 BE MAGAZINE | Volume 5, Issue 2
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