Category Archives: Beam Bending

Composite Beam Spreadsheet 3

The Composite Beam Analysis spreadsheet, previously discussed at: https://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/composite-beam-spreadsheet-2/ has now been updated with a VBA User Defined Function (UDF) in place of the previous macro that used the Excel Goal-Seek command.  This has two main advantages: The UDF is much faster … Continue reading

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Using UDFs – Continuous Beam Example

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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Composite Beam Spreadsheet – 2

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

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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Continuous Beams with Shear Deflections

The Macaulay Spreadsheet has now been modified to optionally include shear deflections, as well as a new option to output support reactions, and fixes to minor bugs. The revised spreadsheet (including full open source code) can be downloaded from: Macaulay.zip … Continue reading

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