Category Archives: Beam Bending

Reinforced Concrete Moment Curvature – Development over time

Posted on 28/08/2015 by dougaj4

I recently noticed that in the RC Design Functions spreadsheet the TimeCurve function had stopped working.  The function calculates the development of reinforced concrete section curvature over time, and was previously presented in Reinforced Concrete Moment-Curvature – 3; Restrained Shrinkage and Creep and Reinforced … Continue reading →

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ConBeamU 4.05 and ConBeampy 1.02

Posted on 15/07/2015 by dougaj4

The latest update of the two continuous beam spreadsheets can be downloaded from: ConBeamU.zip ConBeampy.zip The main changes are: A problem with point loads applied exactly at a support position has been corrected A function has been added to evaluate … Continue reading →

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Conbeam – Python version

Posted on 24/06/2015 by dougaj4

I have converted the continuous beam analysis spreadsheet (last presented here) to Python code, linked to Excel VBA User Defined Functions (UDFs) with ExcelPython.  To run the Python version you will need an installed copy of Python, including Numpy and … Continue reading →

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ConbeamU Update Update

Posted on 13/04/2015 by dougaj4

Following some comments from 4Step on the last ConbeamU update, and a thorough check of results against Strand7 results, I have posted a new version that fixes a number of issues with the previous one.  The new version number is … Continue reading →

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ConbeamU Update; defined support deflections

Posted on 03/04/2015 by dougaj4

As promised in a recent post, I have updated the ConBeamU spreadsheet to allow defined deflections to be specified at any support. The new spreadsheet (including full open-source code), can be downloaded from ConBeamU.zip In addition to the support deflections the … Continue reading →

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