RAM Elements CONNECT Edition v16.01.00.66 Release Notes – Updated October 2019

Enhancements:

1. New Brazilian NBR 8800-08 steel design standard for member design.

2. New linear buckling analysis.

3. New Ritz vectors and Lanczos/Arnoldi methods for Eigen analysis.

4. New rotational stiffness springs for members end releases (M33) to model semi-rigid connections.

5. New Subscription Entitlement Service. SES is a free service, featuring new behavior to enhance your organization’s user administration and security with mandatory user sign-in via CONNECTION Client to access the application. Please click here for more info.

Resolved Issues:

• USACE strong name verification for some libraries (DLL). This has been corrected and all of them pass the verification.
  
  
• Several overhauls for High DPI monitors (4K) were included for icons, panels and dialogs.
  
  
• Deflections for Tilt-Up walls were not in agreement with ACI 551.2R for ACI 318-14. This is fixed and results now match the benchmark problems.
  
  
• Moment capacity for single axis (compact) calculations, was inaccurate for built-up and custom sections. This has been corrected and the capacity is now accurate.
  
  
• Some old format model files (*.AVW and *.ADV) were not being converted correctly to the latest format (*.RETX). This now works properly for all legacy formats.
  
  
• The shear capacity for tapered members when shear stiffeners are present, required tension field action (TFA) in order to be correct. This is now mended, and the capacity is correct even if no TFA is present.
  
  
• For custom cold-formed sections, the slenderness for shear capacity was considering the wrong section thickness. The proper thickness is now included in the calculation.