Design Tables Selection dialog
Used to select the design tables used for columns, beams, steel decks, C-Beam™, joists, and BRB members.
Tables may be those supplied by Bentley Systems, Incorporated or ones created using The RAM Steel Table Editor. Tables may be in either English or SI units, and are independent of the model units.
Deck tab
Used to select the deck table. The data in the deck table selected will appear in the Deck/Slab Property Information dialog in RAM Modeler.
Column tab
Used to select the steel column table.
Beam tab
Used to select the default and alternate steel beam tables.
C-Beam tab
There are four tables to select on this tab: one default and one alternate for both castellated and cellular beams.
C-Beam is a proprietary product of SteelFab, Inc.. It comes in two varieties: cellular (round openings) and castellated (hexagonal openings). Both are available in RAM Structural System. Castellated and cellular beams are created by cutting a standard beam section in half longitudinally in a castellated or half circle pattern, separating and offsetting the two halves, and welding them back together. This results in a deeper beam of the same weight as the original, with hexagonal or round openings along the length of the beam.