October 15, 2020

WEBINAR: What's New in the RISA Building System

Watch the recording of our webinar to learn how new versions of RISA-3D, RISAFloor, RISAFoundation and RISAConnection provide users with expanded design capabilities, improved product integration and new features including:

Cold-Formed Steel Wall Design
ACI Code Updates
Orthotropic Plates
Composite Steel Joists
Custom Anchor Bolt Layouts in Base Plates
And much more...

Tags: RISA-3D, Webinar, RISAFloor, New Release, RISAFoundation, New, RISAConnection, Events

October 26, 2018 | RISA-3D, RISAFloor, RISAFoundation, New, Canadian

What’s New in the NBC 2015?

The 2015 NBC compliant codes have been implemented into RISA-3D v17.0, RISAFloor v13.0 and RISAFoundation V.11.0! These include: CSA S16-14 – Hot Rolled Steel Design Code CSA S136-16 – Cold Formed Steel Design Code CSA A23.3-14 – Concrete Design Code CSA O86-14 – Wood Design Code NBC 2015 Division B Part 4 – Seismic Load Generation NBC 2015 Division B Part 4 – Wind Load Generation To select these codes for your design, simply choose them from the Codes tab within the Model Settings. You can also use the Load Combination Generator to generate load combinations per the 2015 NBC (Ultimate or Service). Simply select this from the LC Code…

January 11, 2017 | RISA-3D, RISAFloor, RISAFoundation, New, Codes

What's New in IBC 2015?

These include: AISC 360-10 (14th Edition)- Steel Design Code ASCE 7-10- Minimum Design Loads Code AISC 341/358-10- Hot Rolled Steel Seismic Provisions AISI S100-12 – Cold Formed Steel Design Code ACI 530-13- Masonry Design Code ACI 318-14- Concrete Design Code AA ADM1-15 – Aluminum Design Manual AF&PA NDS 2015- Wood Design Code To select these codes for your design, simply choose them from the Codes tab of Model Settings: You can also use the Load Combination Generator to generate load combinations per the 2015 IBC (Strength or ASD). Simply select this from the LC Code dropdown menu in the Generator:…

August 11, 2015 | Seismic, RISA-3D, RISAFloor, New, Wind

What Loads Transfer from RISAFloor to RISA-3D?

RIAFloor designs the gravity system and then integrates with RISA-3D to design the lateral system. Only the lateral members are taken from RISAFloor over to RISA-3D. The loading is automated in this integration so one of the most common questions is: what loads are transferred when switching from RISAFloor to RISA-3D? Below is the brief explanation to answer this question. Gravity Loads: The lateral members that become part of the RISA-3D model bring over their gravity loads. This also includes the beam reactions from the gravity only members that were not transferred in to RISAFloor. The load categories in RISAFloor are automatically converted into Basic Load Cases in RISA-3D. The exception to this are the Load Categories that deal specifically with construction loads (DL Const and LL Const), which are not converted. Wind Loads: The wind loads are automatically calculated as the RISAFloor model gets integrated into RISA-3D. The wind load parameters are located in the Wind tab of the Global Parameters in RISAFloor. However, these settings may also be changed when the wind load dialog pops up when transferring to RISA-3D: The option to generate roof wind loads are only present in RISA-3D models that are integrated with RISAFloor…