Category Archives: Beam Bending

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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Frame4 – with intermediate beam results

Posted on 11/09/2012 by dougaj4

Back in March 2010, in response to this post with an update of the Frame4 spreadsheet: https://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/frame4-xls-update2/ jscott (and later mettrox) asked if I had thought about adding output of the member forces at intervals along the member length, to which the response … Continue reading →

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Continuous Beam Spreadsheet – with Units

Posted on 06/09/2012 by dougaj4

The spreadsheet previously known as Macaulay has been updated to include “unit aware” versions of all the included functions, and has been renamed “ConBeamU”, to make it more obvious what it does.  The new spreadsheet (including full opens source code) can be … Continue reading →

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