Category Archives: Beam Bending

Reinforced Concrete Moment-Curvature – 1

Posted on 22/11/2009 by dougaj4

The flexural curvature of any beam composed of material with linear elastic behaviour, subject to a bending moment, M, is given by: C = M / EI where E is the elastic modulus of the beam, and I is its … Continue reading →

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Reinforced Concrete Section Analysis – with prestress

Posted on 25/10/2009 by dougaj4

The simplified reinforced concrete section analysis spreadsheet presented here has been revised to allow the input of a pre-tension stress to either or both layers of reinforcement.  The spreadsheet (including full open source code) can be downloaded from RC Design Functions5. Note … Continue reading →

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LatPile – Analysis of Lateral Loads on Piles

Posted on 26/09/2009 by dougaj4

This post presents an Excel User Defined Function (UDF) to carry out the analysis of vertical piles subject to horizontal loads, using the same approach as employed in the DOS program COM624. A spreadsheet including the UDF and an on-spreadsheet … Continue reading →

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Continuous beam with varying stiffness

Posted on 23/08/2009 by dougaj4

Previous Splinebeam post One of my aims in developing the splinebeam function is to carry out non-linear analysis of reinforced concrete beams, allowing for the greatly reduced flexural stiffness of reinforced concrete sections after cracking of the concrete.  To that … Continue reading →

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Continuous beam with specified end conditions …

Posted on 09/08/2009 by dougaj4

… and/or support displacements. The previous post in this series derived cubic splines with specified end conditions; either a specified curvature or a specified end slope. I have adapted the splinebeam function to allow input of specified end conditions (either a … Continue reading →

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