Category Archives: UDFs

Using UDFs – Continuous Beam Example

Posted on 03/05/2012 by dougaj4

Recently (well a month ago) a comment was left at Continuous Beams with Shear Deflections asking for a tutorial on how to use the ConBeam User Defined Function (UDF).  In this post I will give detailed instructions for the ConBeam function, but similar … Continue reading →

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Spreadsheet Link – Abbott Aerospace Consultants

Posted on 29/04/2012 by dougaj4

Abbott Aerospace has a wide range of spreadsheets available for free download. Many are intended for specific aerospace design applications, but some are for general purpose engineering applications, such as calculation of section properties. A general purpose add-in of particular … Continue reading →

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Composite Beam Spreadsheet – 2

Posted on 27/04/2012 by dougaj4

The previous post on this topic presented a spreadsheet performing elastic analysis of composite reinforced or prestressed composite beams, available for download from: Composite Design Functions-GS.zip.  This post will look in more detail at how the spreadsheet works, and a preview … Continue reading →

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Composite Beam Spreadsheet

Posted on 22/04/2012 by dougaj4

As promised in the previous post, a spreadsheet for designing reinforced or prestressed concrete composite beams has now been uploaded to my web site.  It can be downloaded from: Composite Design Functions-GS.zip .  As usual, the spreadsheet includes full open-source code. … Continue reading →

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Geometry for Joiners

Posted on 03/04/2012 by dougaj4

A question came up on the ABC Self-Service-Science Forum, asking for a solution to find the dimensions of a diagonal brace looking like the diagram below: The solution is not as simple as it might look because the angle of … Continue reading →

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