Category Archives: UDFs

Reinforced Concrete Moment-Curvature – 2; Shrinkage and Creep

Posted on 08/12/2009 by dougaj4

The previous post in this series provided an Excel User Defined Function (UDF) to find  the short term curvature of a reinforced concrete section subject to combined bending and axial load.  In this post UDFs will be presented to determine the strain … Continue reading →

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Reinforced Concrete Moment-Curvature – 1

Posted on 22/11/2009 by dougaj4

The flexural curvature of any beam composed of material with linear elastic behaviour, subject to a bending moment, M, is given by: C = M / EI where E is the elastic modulus of the beam, and I is its … Continue reading →

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Reinforced Concrete Section Analysis – with prestress

Posted on 25/10/2009 by dougaj4

The simplified reinforced concrete section analysis spreadsheet presented here has been revised to allow the input of a pre-tension stress to either or both layers of reinforcement.  The spreadsheet (including full open source code) can be downloaded from RC Design Functions5. Note … Continue reading →

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Three UDFs

Posted on 05/10/2009 by dougaj4

This post is in response to recent discussions at Daily-Dose-of-Excel where many and various worksheet formulas have been suggested to carry out tasks that are (it seems to me) better done with a simple User Defined Function (UDF): Adding Every … Continue reading →

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LatPile – Analysis of Lateral Loads on Piles

Posted on 26/09/2009 by dougaj4

This post presents an Excel User Defined Function (UDF) to carry out the analysis of vertical piles subject to horizontal loads, using the same approach as employed in the DOS program COM624. A spreadsheet including the UDF and an on-spreadsheet … Continue reading →

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