RAM Structural System Help

FloorVibe

A program called FloorVibe has been developed by renowned vibration expert Dr. Thomas Murray of Virginia Tech. through his company, Structural Engineers, Inc., and is commercially available. It is capable of performing a vibration analysis on floor systems consisting of composite and noncomposite hot-rolled and built-up steel beams, steel joists, and Metals USA C-Beamâ„¢.

The criteria for walking excitation, rhythmic excitation and sensitive equipment have been incorporated. Rather than performing the vibration calculations within the RAM Steel Beam module, a link between RAM Steel and FloorVibe has been implemented. When a vibration analysis is to be performed in RAM Steel, the FloorVibe program is automatically launched with the pertinent geometric data automatically passed from one program to the other, and the analysis is performed by FloorVibe. This gives the engineer all of the power and capabilities of FloorVibe.

Although the geometry is exported from RAM Steel Beam to FloorVibe, all vibration criteria and other pertinent data must be specified in FloorVibe.

A special version of FloorVibe that is compatible with RAM Structural System, called "Bentley FloorVibe", is installed with RAM Structural System.