October 30, 2025

🎃 Trick or Treat… It’s RISA-Jeopardy! 👻

Halloween isn’t just for candy and costumes—it’s the perfect time to test your spooky engineering skills! We’ve brewed up a Halloween-themed RISA Jeopardy game, packed with fun, easy questions about our software. Tip for readers: Try to answer before revealing the “treat” below each question! 💀 Can You Count? 100 – RISACalc: How many components are currently available in RISACalc? 10 (Beam, Column, Steel Joist, Composite Beam, Retaining Wall, Spread Footing, Wall Footing, Drilled Pier, Seismic Load, Wind Load) 200 – FD: How many Data Entry spreadsheets are available in RISAFoundation? 25 300 – RISA-3D: How many countries or regions have building codes supported in RISA-3D? 9 (US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Great Britain, India, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia) 🎃 Adaptable 100 – ADAPT: Which of these is not an ADAPT product? ADAPT-Builder, ADAPT-Felt, ADAPT-Floor, ADAPT-ABI ADAPT-Floor 200 – ADAPT: Which mode of ADAPT-Builder is used to design slabs-on-grade on expansive soils using the PTI method? ADAPT-SOG 🕸️ The Whole Family 100 – Other: This steel detailing software and fellow Nemetschek brand has a built-in export option in RISA-3D. SDS2 200 – Other: Which design code is the most common in our software, found in 8 of our 10 programs?…

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RISAFoundation (6)

October 20, 2016

Shear Splices between Slabs

In RISAFoundation v8, you can add a shear splice between slabs so that it...

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September 07, 2016

Understanding the Slab Design Cut Results

In RISAFoundation, the user has the ability to manually draw a single...

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January 20, 2016

Why Did My Reinforcing Change in ACI 318-14?

The new ACI 318-14 code has been implemented into RISA-3D V14, RISAFloor...

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December 16, 2015

Concrete Design per ACI 318-14 Concrete Code now Available

The new ACI 318-14 code has been implemented into RISA-3D v14, RISAFloor...

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November 19, 2015

Battered Retaining Wall Design

The batter dimensions can be set from Wall Footing Definitions:

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November 03, 2015

How to Investigate the Design Strip Results in RISAFoundation

In RISAFoundation, Design Strips are used to create regions in a slab for...

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May 20, 2015

How Do I Change the Slab Local Axes?

RISAFoundation has the ability to change the Local Axes for slabs. This is...

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May 13, 2015

Circular Pedestals on Spread Footings

Circular pedestals and posts can be added to spread footings in...

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April 22, 2015

Which Wall Footing Type Should I Use?

RISAFoundation has the ability to define different types of wall footings....

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