RAM Structural System Help

View/Update

The Process - View/Update command lets the user pick a particular member and view the different components of its participation factor (such as flexural, shear, joint , axial and connections for beams). For example doing a View/Update on a beam will display the beam properties (size, Fy etc) and also its axial, joint, shear, flexural and beam connection displacement participation factors that contribute to the total drift of the building.

The user can also modify the member size and material properties in this dialog box. Once sizes and material properties are changed, the Drift Control Module automatically recalculates the member PFs based on the new data. However, note that the elastic stiffness analysis results remain the same until a re-analysis is invoked from the "Analysis" mode.