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Wembley Tower 2
Following from the previous post, nearly all of the 68 designs for the Wembley Tower were in steel or iron, but there was just one with a truly unique design feature, it was to be built of concrete: If it … Continue reading
Concrete Stress Blocks
Back in 2010 and 2011 posts here looked at a comparison of alternative stress blocks in the then new AS 3600, and a procedure for calculating parameters for a rectangular stress block exactly equivalent to the Eurocode 2 parabolic-rectangular stress … Continue reading
Reinforced Concrete Design for Circular Sections to Eurocode 2
As mentioned in the previous post, the Reinforced Concrete Design Functions spreadsheet includes a function for ULS analysis of circular sections, using either a rectangular or a parabolic-linear stress block. A new CircuPF function has now been added, for codes … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged Eurocode 2, Eurocodeapplied, Excel, RC Design Functions, Reinforced concrete design, UDFs, UK National Annex, ULS design of circular section, VBA
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ULS Design Functions and EurocodeApplied
The ULS Design Functions spreadsheet (last updated here) has had another update (2.09) to fix a problem when bars in different layers had different E values. The new version assigns the correct E and strain at yield to each layer. … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged Eurocode 2, Eurocodeapplied, Excel, Reinforced concrete design, UDFs, ULS Design Functions, ULS design of circular section, VBA
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The Concrete Institute of Australia – Golden Jubilee
The Concrete Institute of Australia will celebrate 50 years in 2020. The Institute was originally formed when members of the Australia Prestressed Concrete Group proposed a change in 1968 where it was resolved to adopt the name Concrete Institute of … Continue reading
