Loads Located in Wall Openings
Distributed loads on slabs (i.e., dead or live loads) are processed and applied to existing adjacent walls based on their tributary areas. Other loads such as point or line loads can also be applied to walls directly. If these lateral walls have openings through their top edges, the loads located over such openings are ignored in RAM Frame during analysis. For instance, the following figure depicts an example for a wall with two openings defined at top of the wall (a). Since some loads are located over openings, the program disregards these loads and only loads not located on openings are considered ( b). Hence, the loads over openings are lost and analysis carried out without them. RAM Frame produces a warning message if such loads are found and show a list of these loads in "Analysis Log" report.
