Beams that span to the rigid end zones of other beams are not uncommon. If the rigid end zone correction for such beams are larger than the beam segment, RAM Frame ignores the rigid end zone and uses the center to center dimension as the effective lengths.

Similarly, columns in very short "dummy" stories could have rigid end offsets larger than their own heights. Again, in such cases RAM Frame uses the clear heights of the columns as their effective lengths without carrying out rigid end zone corrections.