I am trying to perform lateral analysis in RAM Frame and I am not able to understand how does RAM divide the live load on roof and floor for a 2 story building. What is the meant by positive and negative reducible live load ? I was stuck up in the results RAM gave me for the lateral analysis, like it gave me a roof live load of 47 kips and a floor live load value of around 52 kips and I believe this is a little weird as the value should be around double of the roof value, if i am not Wrong. What settings in the program would possibly affect the results? An Explanation on this would help.
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