When designing a footing in RAM Foundations for uplift due to a steel brace frame we have adjusted to uplift Safety Factor to 1.0
Moments on the footing due to shear loads have not been included because it has been determined that the soil will be able to adequately support the lateral force from the column. A surcharge load has been added to account for the dead load of the slab on grade and soils above the footing. When modifying a footing size and running the check in View/Update with a footing that is smaller in size than what was designed by RAM Foundations the design fails and says "Uplift on compete footing." However, when reading the design results for the footing run the results list the footing Uplift Safety Factor as 2.0 (see below).
Is there other areas where to modify the Safety Factor? Is the Safety factor being over written because of other settings that have been included?
Thank you Seth.
Follow-up question. If I uncheck include self-weight in checking soil stress, does the program still consider the self-weight for the uplift check?
I want to exclude self-weight in the bearing check and include the self-weight in the uplift check. Is this possible? thanks.