Hello!
I am using Ram SS for the analysis and design of the building and am fairly new to the software. The issue i have here is i am getting higher drifts than expected for the structure. i have modeled the slab as a semi rigid diaphragm and for this particular building wind forces do govern the lateral analysis. The wind loads are user defined loads and when viewing the applied forces on the plan for the wind case i realized the wind load is higher along the edge. I have not applied any eccentricity for this case as i wanted to see the uniform distribution of the forces to nodal point of semi rigid diaphragm on the windward edge.
Load case is with force in X direction, WF 100% LF 0%, Ey=0. Please see the screenshot below of the applied load. This is the program calculated windward edge . Can we manually define the windward edge?
Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks,
Adi
