Category Archives: Excel

Section Properties for Rotated Shapes

Posted on 06/08/2020 by dougaj4

I have just posted an update to my section properties spreadsheet, last discussed at: Using Section Properties- Group The new version can be downloaded from: Section Properties07-Group.zip The main sheet provides section properties for a wide variety of defined shapes: This … Continue reading →

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Reinforced Concrete Design for Circular Sections to Eurocode 2

Posted on 26/07/2020 by dougaj4

As mentioned in the previous post, the Reinforced Concrete Design Functions spreadsheet includes a function for ULS analysis of circular sections, using either a rectangular  or a parabolic-linear stress block.  A new CircuPF function has now been added, for codes … Continue reading →

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ULS Design Functions and EurocodeApplied

Posted on 12/07/2020 by dougaj4

The ULS Design Functions spreadsheet (last updated here) has had another update (2.09) to fix a problem when bars in different layers had different E values.  The new version assigns the correct E and strain at yield to each layer. … Continue reading →

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Numerical integration with on-sheet calculations

Posted on 08/07/2020 by dougaj4

Following a comment here I have prepared a spreadsheet that works through the Tanh-Sinh Quadrature process with on-sheet calculations.  For that purpose Graeme Dennes has provided a simplified version of the code: QUAD_RODRIGUEZ_TANH_SINH for finite intervals. Translated from HP RPN … Continue reading →

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Excel functions that return references and new functions

Posted on 30/06/2020 by dougaj4

The MyOnlineTrainingHub blog recently posted an article on: Excel Functions that Return References As well as comprehensive advice on the use of OFFSET, INDEX, CHOOSE, IF and INDIRECT, it also covers the new functions XLOOKUP (Excel for Microsoft 365 only), and … Continue reading →

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