Hello - My office still uses version 3.0 of RAM SBeam. When analyzing composite beams, I notice in the output that phi factor of 0.85 and 0.9 are used for flexure and shear, respectively. RAM SBeam v3.0 uses the 3rd Edition of AISC LRFD; however,…

Hi there. I'm using RAM SBeam doing composite steel beam check. Comparing to the results I got from Tedds, it seems the Ieff, the effective moment inertia, shown in the RAM report is close to the equivalent moment in Tedds, which is before 0.75 applied…