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AS 3600 and RC Design Functions 8.01
The updated RC Design Functions spreadsheet (presented here) included an updated UMom function to find the ultimate strength of a rectangular section under combined bending and axial load; but I omitted to include the revisions to the alpha2 and Gamma … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged AS 3600, Excel, Rectangular stress block factors, Reinforced Concrete Design Functions, UDF, ULS design, VBA
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More iterative solvers
Following the recent post on using Brent’s Method solvers on an array (Iterative solvers and arrays), here is another example with an engineering related problem. The example is included in the xlScipy3 spreadsheet, which can be downloaded from: xlScipy3.zip The depth … Continue reading
Posted in Arrays, Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, UDFs, VBA, xlwings
Tagged Brents method, depth of neutral axis, Excel, Python, Reinforced Concrete, SciPy, UDFs, VBA, xlwings
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New AS 3600 and RC Design Functions 8
A revised version of the Australian Concrete Structures code, AS 3600, was recently published, with many significant changes, including: Changes to ULS reduction Factors Creep and shrinkage Curvature and deflection calculations Crack width calculation and stress limits Major changes to … Continue reading
Units and solvers with Pint and Sympy
Following the previous post I have adapted the units code to use the Pint package, and added a function using the Sympy equation solver, with Pint units. I have applied the functions to finding the depth of neutral axis of a … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA, xlwings
Tagged Evaluate text, evaluate units, Excel, Pint, Python, Solve text, Sympy, UDF, unit aware, Units, VBA, xlwings
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Cubic splines with jagged data
A cubic spline provides a good approximation to a smooth curve, and alternative versions are available for free download (see Daily Download 22: Splines and Curves, Update to AL-Spline-Matrix, and xlwSciPy 1.09 – update for xlwings 0.10 and Scipy 0.18.1), but if … Continue reading
Posted in Arrays, Beam Bending, Concrete, Curve fitting, Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged CSplineA, Cubic splines, Excel, fitting jagged data, MSplineA, UDF, VBA
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Evaluating text with units and finding the neutral axis
A few weeks ago a comment asked for guidance on finding the moment capacity of a reinforced concrete section. This post will look at finding the depth of the neutral axis (NA) in a rectangular section, with a single layer of … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged depth of neutral axis, elastic analysis, EvalU, evaluate text strings, evaluate units, Excel, Reinforced Concrete, UDF, ULS analyis, unit aware, VBA
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Section Properties with MeshPY, including torsion and warping
I recently discovered robbie van leeuwen’s structural engineering blog, which has an open-source set of Python routines for calculation of section properties, including torsion and warping constants. The program uses the MeshPY Library for generating the finite element meshes required … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Frame Analysis, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, Numerical integration, NumPy and SciPy, Strand7, UDFs, VBA, xlwings
Tagged Excel, MatPlotlib, MeshPY, Python, section properties, Torsion, UDF, VBA, Warping
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