https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum/158622/two-slab-openingsHello, Is there a way to model two openings on both sides of a beam in RAM Modeler? The overhang of the slab is 10 inches. On the figure, the beam number is shown.en-USTelligent Community 12https://communities.bentley.com/thread/472833?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 25 Jul 2018 18:02:27 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:4f12b15f-d6ac-45a0-be36-71daf0adc6c6Seth Guthrie<p><span>When you model an opening on each side of a beam using the in-bay approach the openings should merge leaving a segment of the beam with no deck on it. That&#39;s the intended behavior and generally conservative for beam design (the beam will be non-composite in this case). When the deck is 2-way you can model two openings side by side with a small space between them. Otherwise the only option is to model some additional framing such that you have a pair of parallel beams closely spaced.&nbsp;</span></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>