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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>WAFA ZAQOUT's Communities Activities</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/members/a4d355c3_2d00_ecd7_2d00_4513_2d00_8542_2d00_eb496ff44493</link><description>Recent activity for people in WAFA ZAQOUT's community</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>Rotation of Angle Members</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum/53075/rotation-of-angle-members</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2015 14:30:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b23abc4a-fb88-4db9-9cb2-089899f8d6bf</guid><dc:creator>Ryan Bunnage</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I have a couple of questions concerning the rotation of singe angle members.&amp;nbsp; Which command should I use to rotate&amp;nbsp;these angle members?&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Beta Angle&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Beta 45&amp;quot; (or&amp;nbsp;135 or 225 or whatever your&amp;nbsp;required angle is)?&amp;nbsp; I pose this question because I would have thought the results would have been the same but they are not.&amp;nbsp; The results for &amp;quot;Beta Angle&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;actually match those of an angle member&amp;nbsp;modeled along its principal axis with no rotation or &amp;quot;Beta 0&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; I also would have thought the properties for the&amp;nbsp;weld design, namely Sz, Sy, CH &amp;amp; CV,&amp;nbsp;would have changed with this&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;Beta Angle&amp;quot; command&amp;nbsp;since the member end forces&amp;nbsp;are no longer being applied in the same manner&amp;nbsp;to the weld.&amp;nbsp; Any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Length to depth ratio warning</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum/158209/length-to-depth-ratio-warning</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:52:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:d751bc6b-dd21-4136-a748-f587d66b69dc</guid><dc:creator>abdul malik</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;My Staad file showing warning such as length to depth ratio is less. so it has to be designed as deep beam but staad cant do that. I did ESNH 1 but help me how to use that command. I tried but the same warning is repeated. suggest the steps to correct that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/5932/silmi-staad-1111.std"&gt;communities.bentley.com/.../silmi-staad-1111.std&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Total beam length in steel beam module</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum/126924/total-beam-length-in-steel-beam-module</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2016 18:22:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:7c12d4ae-0e81-47c0-9426-e1503ec7db1c</guid><dc:creator>Mike Barr</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Is it possible in RAM Structural System/RAM Steel for it to design/analyze beams based on the length from column face to column face instead of center to center of column supports? &amp;nbsp;I am back engineering a building that appears to have been designed to very precise limits of the members and the total beam length reduction is a factor.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If not, is this possible in other RAM software such as RAM Elements?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>