Criteria

The criteria set through the criteria dialog boxes are global criteria that affect all concrete structural members unless they are overwritten using one of the assign commands.

Menu Item	Description
Code	To select the concrete code that will be used for the analysis and design of the concrete members.
Analysis	To establish the criteria used to create the finite element model, load cases and number of forces to save for design purposes.
Column Forces	To specify which stories are to use RAM Concept Column forces, and the status of the RAM Structural System model relative to the RAM Concept model for each story.
Sidesway	To set the global criteria used to determine whether a column is a sway or nonsway column in each axis.
Effective Length Factor	To set the global criteria used to determine the effective length factor for each axis of a column.
Bracing	To set the criteria by which it is determined if a column is braced at each story.