Category Archives: Beam Bending

Daily Download 5: Frame Analysis

Posted on 21/09/2012 by dougaj4

Leading on from yesterday’s continuous beam functions, today’s download covers four frame analysis spreadsheets, with increasing levels of complexity.  For those interested in the workings of the program I recommend working through each spreadsheet, but for practical applications the final … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 4: Continuous Beam Analysis

Posted on 20/09/2012 by dougaj4

Today’s download files contain several alternative functions for analysing continuous beams. The most flexible is the ConBeamU spreadsheet, which in addition to the continuous beam function also contains functions for single span beams and cantilevers, and for fixed end moments and … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 3: ULS design of reinforced concrete sections

Posted on 19/09/2012 by dougaj4

Today’s downloads provide a spreadsheet providing Ultimate Limit State (ULS) analysis of reinforced or prestressed concrete sections, and an iterative method for finding the depth of the Neutral Axis in a circular reinforced concrete section. The ULS analysis spreadsheet is described at: … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 2: SLS design of reinforced concrete sections …

Posted on 18/09/2012 by dougaj4

… and prestressed concrete sections. Today’s download installment covers spreadsheets for design of reinforced and prestressed concrete beams and columns at the Serviceability Limit State (SLS).  The spreadsheets cover design of rectangular and circular sections, sections made up of any … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 1: Buckling of columns, rings and arches

Posted on 17/09/2012 by dougaj4

One of the disadvantages of the blog format is that valuable resources tend to get lost somewhere in the archives.  To help make them a bit more visible, for the next month or so I plan to post links to … Continue reading →

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