RAM Structural System Help

Camber

The user can inspect or modify the settings for calculating beam camber, including Percent of Dead Load used in calculating camber, the increment in which camber will be called out and the minimum and maximum camber call out by using the Criteria - Camber command. The user can also suppress any camber, or that of large or small beams or those of a short span. Camber for composite beams and noncomposite beams are specified separately.

Note that the Deflection Criteria and the Camber Criteria should be considered together, since they have an impact on each other (e.g., the Camber is based on the Initial Deflection, and the Net Total Deflection accounts for the effects of Camber).