RAM Structural System Help

Working with Gravity Loads

Gravity loads can be defined and assigned in any combination of Point, Line, and Surface Loads. Loads are defined with the PropTable commands.

Note: When the deck is specified as One-way, some loads placed in the overhang section of the slab edge may be ignored. When determining the loads on the beams around the perimeter of the slab edge, the space adjacent to the beams but inside the slab edge is checked. Regardless of the direction of deck otherwise specified, one-way distribution of loads is performed with the slab edge loads carried back to the beam at right angles to the beam. Therefore, loads in the exterior corner of a slab will be ignored since there is no beam to distribute the load back to at a right angle to the beam. For example, the highlighted portion of the surface load in the following example is ignored: