Category Archives: Beam Bending

Beams may kiss, but do not hug …

Posted on 09/02/2015 by dougaj4

… not full length anyway. This post was inspired by a now very long discussion at Eng-Tips on the apparently simple question of what happens when you place one short beam on top of a longer one, and apply a … Continue reading →

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Faster Biaxial Bending

Posted on 10/08/2014 by dougaj4

The spreadsheet to calculate ultimate moment capacity of a reinforced or prestressed concrete section under combined axial load and biaxial bending, last presented here, has been updated to use the QuadBrent solver, rather than the Excel Goal Seek function, for … Continue reading →

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Reinforced Concrete – ULS capacity under combined axial load and biaxial bending

Posted on 19/06/2014 by dougaj4

I have modified the ULS Design Functions spreadsheet, last presented here, to analyse sections subject to bi-axial bending, and non-symmetrical sections.  The new version makes use of the routines for splitting any section defined by XY coordinates into trapezoidal layers, described … Continue reading →

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ConBeamU Update

Posted on 17/04/2014 by dougaj4

Recently a comment pointed out that if the ConBeam, or ConBeamU, user defined functions were used with a single span then the “Out” argument was ignored, so it was not possible to return support reactions.  This has now been fixed … Continue reading →

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Beam actions and deflections, 3D or 2D

Posted on 01/02/2014 by dougaj4

Two new functions have been added to the ConBeamU spreadsheet, last discussed here. The new version can be downloaded from ConBeamU.zip, including full open-source code. The new functions, BeamAct3D and BeamAct2D calculate forces, moments, deflections and rotations along a 3D … Continue reading →

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