The one problem I can see is that RISAFoundation is geared towards larger systems, so modeling a single grade beam probably doesn't work. That's because it's unstable for rotation about it's axis and RISAFoundation probably isn't smart enough to correct for that issue automatically. More @Wikipedia
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