David Pirnia's Activitieshttps://communities.bentley.com/members/bf0248a9_2d00_bff3_2d00_43e8_2d00_89be_2d00_00da179d3102David Pirnia's recent activityen-USTelligent Community 12Ram Concept - Implementation of ACI 318 18.9.3.3https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum/145918/ram-concept---implementation-of-aci-318-18-9-3-3Fri, 19 Jan 2018 23:13:30 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:157d652a-e5a9-4131-bc71-83eb3cb8041cDavid Pirnia<p>ACI 318 18.9.3.3 includes an equation to calculate minimum reinforcement by the maximum gross cross-sectional area in two orthogonal directions.&nbsp; Is this implemented in RAM Concept?&nbsp; I could not verify that it is and could not find a code reference indicating that it may be evaluated independently in each direction.</p> <p>Thank you</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>Ask A Question Ihttps://communities.bentley.com/achievements/460ac7df-7ccc-4c42-a204-9e05eef3be09Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:52:01 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:9f69b4c6-cca3-4860-8ea5-76c2f50af630Ask a question in a forum.