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I have always believed that the columns should be designed for the unbalanced eccentric moments. Some argue that there is enough fixity in the connection that for the magnitude of moments under consideration the system is acting like a fixed beam, which effectively carries the beam reaction to...

AISC Design Guide 2, Steel and Composite Beams with Web Openings, describes a few possible approaches for calculating deflection. See Chapter 6. At the end of Section 6.5 it states that for large openings the deflection due to the opening is approximately equal to the deflection due to shear...

I see that I need to correct some serious misunderstanding about the license consolidation. I am the Senior Product Manager for the RAM Structural System. I am the structural engineer that has directed the development of the RAM Structural System since we began it in 1988. Those that know me...

We (Bentley Systems/RAM) are currently in the process of implementing Hanging Columns. That feature will be available in the RAM Structural System in Spring 2011.

It's true, last month Bentley Systems acquired RAM International. See this link: http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/News/Quarter+4/RAMletter.htm I think this will be a good thing for our clients. This will make available to us a wide range of resources, and we have already had meetings to...