Hello,
I'm a first time RAM Concept user and using it to design a post tensioned flat plate slab for a school assignment. The design is for three by three bays, all symmetric, with prescribed live and dead load values.
I would like to change the live load and dead load values that RAM Concept uses to match the ones prescribed in my assignment. After that point, RAM Concept can do what it does and apply the pre-set load combinations from ASCE 7-10.
However, I cannot:
a) Find out what psf values RAM Concept is currently using for the dead and live loads.
b) Nor can I change those values.
It seems very strange. I go to Criteria -> Loadings, I see the loads, can change their names, can change the type from reducible to non-reducible; but past that it's a black box software situation where I have no idea what Live Load psf value the program is even applying, or Dead Loads.
I did try to add an "Other Load". However, there is nowhere to input actual psf values, and I'm worried that these "other" loads will not properly plug into RAM's pre-defined load combinations.
My feeling is that I may have to use Ram Structural System to somehow define psf values and import them into RAM Concept. Even so, I am missing something fundamental because RAM Concept is calculating away, tells me my slab is OK in all the checks, but I don't know what loads the program is applying. It never asked me if my slab is an apartment, a warehouse, has partition walls, etc...
Please help me out if you can.
