. Refreshed UI!! (including icons) - WHY: The UI is so outdated and needs a refreshed face. Better documentations module (Out of the box, directly from robot not 5 hours formatting in Word). WHY: I think the documentation module is the worst, the export to Word requires substantial amount of work afterwards. For example, the steel utilization constantly returns 2 pages, where 2nd page just have 1 or 2 lines, for at 100 members model this give additional 100 pages to format.
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Show utilizations of steel in 3D with colors. WHY: Many of the other FEM programs are becoming more graphic in the presentation of result and gives a third part easier overview of our structure. A long table of 100 members is not a good presentation IMO.In general, would a user interface facelift be very much appreciated, I have worked with Robot since 2012, and the UI have not really changed, currently I'm using 2018.BestKim Christensen.
Dear Ruslana,Thak you for being with us and even special thanks for your commitment in development direction.I'll try here to be summarize here some topics that need to be developed/implemented, listening the design market:1) Push Over Analysis: In this years, push over analysis for seismic evaluation of existing buildings are going to became the most used analysis. Most of the international design codes allow the designers to use it for existing buildings. In Robot push-over is included but, unfortunately, unusable. To give the user the ability to run successful the push over analysis it have to be developed, properly, the function to define (quickly and correctly) the plastic hinges for steel elements and, most of all, for reinforced concrete elements. Once more, it have to be done to the user the ability to create the Capacity Curves and the ADSR curves, in a more user friendly mode.2) Even going in the direction of the enhacement of the analysis, it should be added the plastic and non linear behaviour for shell elements. This can enlarge enormously the field of application of Robot even to masonry buildings;3) The section definition module need to be refreshedHave a nice day, greetings.
Hello Ruslana. 'Improve buckling analysis for steel beams”. I think most of the software at this level include Warping torsional degree of freedom for steel beams. (Robot IDEAS 36 votes). Advanced composite action between slabs and beams. (For example SCIA) In this case, a perfect shear connection is assumed between the beam and the slab.
The plate rib is modelized with its real eccentricity. In this configuration, an axial force will appear in the beam and membrane forces will appear in the slab.
The diffusion of the membrane forces in the slab will be automatically calculated by the FE modelization of the same. The internal forces for the composite checks will be obtained by integrating the obtained stresses in both the steel beam and the slab (within the participating width of the slab).
The design of reinforced concrete in ROBOT is quite heavy for me. I like the aproche of Graitec Advance Bim designer, but the workflow between Robot and Revit should be improved.Much encouragement for this enormous task of resurrecting Robot! 1- Much improved phases feature taking in account, for example,concrete time dependant material properties2- Brazilian steel and concrete codes. There´s a huge market here in Brazil just waiting these codes to be implemented to definetely embrace Robot as their structural engineering software. That´s a regular request of mine for the last 18 years!!3-Important bug fixes as Nonlinear time history analysisNot clear, is this for RSA 2020(release on 2019, hopefully) or for the year of 2020 (RSA 2021). Hi Ruslana,We really appreciate your interest in listening what Robot users expect to see in future releases. True staged construction, including time dependent effects such as creep, shrinkage and relaxation.
Current Robot functionality has no practical use. WHY: You can’t simulate bridge staged construction. Improve pushover analysis/nonlinear time history, including possibility to account por PMM interaction in nonlinear hinges. Results post processing is also missing a lot of features (i.e. Graphically view hinges yield status, hinge table results, hysteresis graphs).
WHY: The need for this type of analysis in countries with high seismic activity is being requested more often. Here in Mexico City it has been incorporated in latest code after big earthquake from last year. Prestressing simulation in Robot, including losses calculation.
WHY: Prestressing in Robot is almost non-existent.We’re a structural design office working in Mexico.Regards. Dear Ruslana,Firstly, I would to thank you and your team for giving us this opportunity to share with you our thoughts about RSA development.
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In addition, I would like to thank you for your clearly efforts to develop RSA. Improvement and development of RC elements design calculation reports is required.WHY: It lacks to any details showing how these calculations are carried out. Therefore, the report can’t be relied upon in its current status and submitted for approval by any owner's consultant. This report should be detailed as same as the design calculation report of steel elements in RSA. The punching shear verification for Flat/plate slabs supported on RC walls (wall end / wall corner) according to EC doesn’t exist.WHY: This case always exists in our projects especially in multistory buildings. The punching shear verification of raft foundation should be corrected.WHY: RSA doesn’t take into account the uplift soil pressure to reduce the shear force as stated in EC2 Clause 6.4.4(2).Libyan Construction Company.
Our projects in most Libyan cities.Refaat. Hi Ruslana,1. Loads on cladding - Forces generated automatically. I would like to see an integration of the individual/discrete forces, that is: one force applied = one force generated.Moreover, the force generated should be compatible with the applied loads e.g. If an UDL is applied on local Z of a member then the generated force should be displayed in local Z.The current display option makes checking not practical, kind of shooting in the dark.2. Display internal bracing/user assigned restraints to steel members (top flange, bottom flange, axis buckling).The internal bracing/restraints to a steel member are critical to steel member design and a visual check is hard to live without.Additionally, his feature has been long available in other structural analysis software.3. Fix the representation of uniform planar load on contour applied in local coordinate system.These loads are currently displayed on global Z before and after analysis.Thanks.