RAM Elements Concrete Beam Design

Question

When designing concrete beam elements in RAM Elements, how are the following items accounted for: 
 1. Reducing moments to face of supports 
 2. Reducing shear to d distance from the support 
 3. How are T-sections modeled? I went through the sections but did not see any T-sections. 
 4. How are long term effects accounted for in beam deflection (creep, etc)? 
 I looked through RAM Elements manual but it does not really address any of these items. Thanks for the help.

Esra Persellin · Accepted Answer

1. The program calculates the moments at the centerline of the column support in RAM Concrete Beam Module. It isn't editable. 
 
2. In the Advanced Options within the module, you can turn on and off reducing Vu near the column face. 
 
3. In the Concrete Beam Module, under the Sections -shape dropdown menu, T Beam option is available. In addition, in the main RAM Elements program, T- sections are not directly available in the section folder provided by the program. However, you can create the T-beam sections that you want in the main RAM Elements window under Home tab -Sections. Here is a link that explains how to create custom sections in RAM Elements: 
 communities.bentley.com/.../3569.creating-custom-sections-materials-etc-in-ram-elements-tn 
 
4. RAM Elements doesn't consider creep. However, you can create a load combination with a higher load coefficients to take into account the long term deflections but the analysis will still be linear.