phamENG
Structural
- Feb 6, 2015
- 7,373
So I'm about to make the jump back to RISA. It's about 6 months earlier than I'd planned as I'm still halfway through my last software annual payment, but I keep getting frustrated by its shortcomings and lack of features. Now I have a project that needs software (I don't have a month to do all the calcs by hand), but mine can't do it because the members are not prismatic. Womp womp.
Before I do, I'm curious about one thing that I can't find explained anywhere.
If I design a floor system with a girder that puts a point load in the middle of a wood wall panel, does RISA take it into account for stud and header calculations? Header is certainly important, but for the studs does it try to spread it out like it's a concrete wall or does it define a discreet multi-ply post or a column in the wall for the point load? I don't need a 3D analysis program to design a simple box...it's the odd ball creative stuff that the architects come up with that leave you scratching your head about load paths for days that this is useful for. And I don't want to start and stop a wall on either side of a post if it's meant to be a continuous shear wall.
It's been a few years since I used RISA. Version 16 I think was the last time. I might have downloaded 17, never touched the new interface.
Thanks.
Before I do, I'm curious about one thing that I can't find explained anywhere.
If I design a floor system with a girder that puts a point load in the middle of a wood wall panel, does RISA take it into account for stud and header calculations? Header is certainly important, but for the studs does it try to spread it out like it's a concrete wall or does it define a discreet multi-ply post or a column in the wall for the point load? I don't need a 3D analysis program to design a simple box...it's the odd ball creative stuff that the architects come up with that leave you scratching your head about load paths for days that this is useful for. And I don't want to start and stop a wall on either side of a post if it's meant to be a continuous shear wall.
It's been a few years since I used RISA. Version 16 I think was the last time. I might have downloaded 17, never touched the new interface.
Thanks.