Expecting Answers from Arsa Technical Team

EXPECTING ANSWERS FROM ARSA TECHNICAL TEAM

Part 1:

In order to show the engineers of GENIVAR the fully possibilities of the software Gary have to put the advantages of using the software by comparing some modules of it with the others like SAP, ETABs et Advance Design., by demonstrates :

1-  the force of the software in Seismic Analysis and Design (a step by step demo with a regular RC building could be helpful);

2-  the possibility to do validate the analysis and the design with the Spreadsheet calculatator (a demo could be helpful);

3-  the bidirectional link with Revit structure;

4-  how to do the design and the analysis of the RC two way slab systems with or without drop panel and how to compare the results obtain from Robot with the strip method or the direct design method of the code (actually SAFE allows the user to do it directly by defining the various length of strip);

5-  the ability of the software to modeling the bridges structures;

6-  Possibility to do the design for concrete, steel, and wood structures in the same software; etc.

Part 2:

Prepare it to see how he could answer the following questions:

·  this people wants to know if RSA can design alone the composite slab systems like some video show it with Revit Structure;

·  Why the EXPERT module of retaining wall are available only for the Europeans codes;

·  When RSA could be able to do the design of pile cap like some software like CYPECAD or RAM Concrete do it;

·  Why the ‘’ warping constant Iw or Cw’’ are not available in the section builder modulus;

·  If RSA are able to do the Seismic design of various sections of Shear Wall as S-Concrete and RAM concrete do it.

RAM Concrete Shear Wall View/Update – axial/flexural design results

·  If RSA have plan to do it when the seismic design of the shear wall will be available for the CSA Standards because when the user click on the corresponding icon he see this message ‘’ this module is not available for the code CSA A23.3-04 etc”

·  The same for the design of RC deep beam;

·  Why the modulus ‘’Autoloader’’ which have been available on old version of RSA have been removed from the new versions. In the modulus the user had the possibility to do the analysis of the bridge with the notion of ‘, influence area’’ and could do the analysis with the North American codes. Do you have planned to incorporate the bridge design code S6-06 in your schedule?

·  In bridge analysis is there an algorithm to do the analysis by taking account of the transverse variation of the moving load like ADA do it;

·  We want to use RSA for the analysis and the design for chimneys and antennas towers, but the module to generate wind load in 2D and 3D are not available even for the NBCC 2005 and the S-37 code for this kind of structure.

·  When we could to design of the connections by using the Canadians codes;

·  Can we expect some progress in analysis and design of prestressed structures in a near future? We have read in a article that there were a collaboration between the Robot team and ADAPT, if there is some progress in this process?