https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum/99219/modelling-eccentricity-of-columns-with-cantilever-beams-in-ram-ssWe have a situation where an existing building utilizes platform-framed construction and several columns have beams with 10&#39;-0&quot; cantilevers which run over top of them. We do not feel it&#39;s conservative to assume a perfect fulcrum (i.e. zero eccentricityen-USTelligent Community 12https://communities.bentley.com/thread/292678?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:03:31 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:81ef6bf8-d755-43b7-825a-a026fe34ef8bSeth Guthrie<p>You can make the beams and columns lateral and then assign the desired fixity and establish the column unbalanced moment based on the RAM Frame finite element analysis.</p> <p>Otherwise I guess you could run a variation of the model without the cantilevers.</p> <p>For those out there who did not realize we use zero eccentricity on columns supporting beams with cantilevers, here&#39;s a bit more info:</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="https://communities.bentley.com/products/structural/structural_analysis___design/w/structural_analysis_and_design__wiki/2055.ramss-columns-faq.aspx">communities.bentley.com/.../2055.ramss-columns-faq.aspx</a></p> <p>I&#39;ll remind the product manager that some eccentricity in those connections is desirable.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>