Criteria - Steel Design Codes

Selecting Criteria > Design Codes opens the Beam Steel Design Codes dialog. Select a different code for steel beam or C-Beam™ designs by selecting the corresponding option.

RAM Steel Beam can perform designs based on several steel design specifications. These specifications include:

"Specification for Structural Steel Buildings." July 7, 2016. ANSI/AISC 360-16 ASD (Allowable Strength Design) and LRFD (Load Resistance Factored Design). American Institute of Steel Construction. Manual of Steel Construction (15th Edition).
"Specification for Structural Steel Buildings." June 22, 2010. ANSI/AISC 360-10 ASD (Allowable Strength Design) and LRFD (Load Resistance Factored Design). American Institute of Steel Construction. Manual of Steel Construction (14th Edition).
"Specification for Structural Steel Buildings."March 9, 2005. ANSI/AISC 360-05, ASD (Allowable Strength Design) and LRFD (Load Resistance Factored Design). American Institute of Steel Construction. Manual of Steel Construction (13th Edition).
"Specification for Structural Steel Buildings - Allowable Stress Design and Plastic Design." June 1, 1989. American Institute of Steel Construction. Manual of Steel Construction - Allowable Stress Design (9th Edition). The requirements of Supplement No. 1 (December 17, 2001) are also included as an option.
"Load and Resistance Factor Design Specification for Structural Steel Buildings." December 1, 1993. American Institute of Steel Construction in Manual of Steel Construction - Load and Resistance Factor Design (3rd Edition).
"Limit States Design of Steel Structures." CAN/CSA-S16-14. Canadian Institute of Steel Construction.
"Limit States Design of Steel Structures." CAN/CSA-S16-09. Canadian Institute of Steel Construction.
"Limit States Design of Steel Structures." CAN/CSA-S16-01. Canadian Institute of Steel Construction. S16S1-05 Supplement No. 1 is also implemented.
"Structural use of steelwork in building." BS 5950 : Part 1. "Code of practice for design: rolled and welded sections." 2000. British Standards Institute.
"Structural use of steelwork in building." BS 5950 : Part 1, "Code of practice for design in simple and continuous construction: hot rolled sections." 1990. British Standards Institute.
"Structural use of steelwork in building." BS 5950 : Part 3, Section 3.1. "Code of practice for design of simple and continuous composite beams." 1990. British Standards Institute.
"Eurocode 3 - Design of Steel Structures, EN 1993-1-1:2005." European Committee for Standardization in Design of Steel Structures (Eurocode 3).
"Eurocode 4 - Design of Composite Steel and Concrete Structures, BS EN 1994-1-1:2004." European Committee for Standardization in Design of Composite Steel and Concrete Structures (Eurocode 4)
"Steel Structures." Australia Standard. Building Code of Australia. AS 4100-98. June 5, 1998. Includes Amendments No 1-1992, No. 2 – 1993, No.3 – 1995 and Draft No.4 (Base plate code not currently available).
"Composite Structures." Australian Standard AS 2327.1-2003, Part 1: Simply supported beams.
"Indian Standard, General Construction in Steel - Code of Practice (December 2007)," IS 800:2007 published by the Bureau of Indian Standards (Third Revision).

Dialog Controls

Setting	Description
Steel Code	Contains a list of available design codes and—in the case of ASD 9th Edition and BS 5950: 2000—optional design provisions. Note: Selecting certain codes may result in additional options being made available or active for specifying the appropriate code-specific criteria.
Smartbeam Code	Contains a list of available design codes and—in the case of ASD 9th Edition—optional design provisions.

Clicking Cancel will cancel any new selection made and return you to the program.

Clicking OK will cause a warning message dialog box to appear on the screen stating that proceeding with this command will clear all previously optimized beam sizes. You are given the option to continue the building code change by clicking OK or canceling the change by clicking Cancel.