Category Archives: Beam Bending

Reinforced Concrete Section Analysis – 6; Ultimate Limit State

Posted on 23/10/2008 by dougaj4

The previous post in this series included Excel User Defined Functions using closed form solutions to find the ultimate bending and axial load capacity of reinforced or prestressed concrete sections of any complex shape defined by rectangular or horizontal layers.  The … Continue reading →

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Reinforced Concrete Section Analysis – 5; Ultimate Limit State

Posted on 19/08/2008 by dougaj4

Previous posts in this series have looked at the analysis of beams where the steel stress is within the elastic range, and the concrete stress is sufficiently low that the assumption of linear elastic behaviour in compression is a reasonable approximation.  … Continue reading →

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The history of the theory of beam bending – Part 3

Posted on 12/07/2008 by dougaj4

In the previous post in this series I took the story up to 1773 and the work of Coulomb, skipping over the work of the Bernoulli family and Euler, which in the modern context was certainly the most important advance in … Continue reading →

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Reinforced Concrete Section Analysis – 4

Posted on 21/06/2008 by dougaj4

Previous post The spreadsheet presented in the previous post in this series uses the basic equation given below to find the location of the neutral axis: For a cross section with any applied axial load at eccentricity e, measured from … Continue reading →

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Reinforced Concrete Section Analysis – 3

Posted on 30/05/2008 by dougaj4

Previous post -1 Previous post -2 The theory presented in the previous 2 posts in this series has been incorporated into an Excel UDF, allowing concrete and reinforcement stresses and strains to be evaluated quickly and easily for reinforced and … Continue reading →

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