Category Archives: Concrete

Concrete Stress Blocks

Posted on 15/08/2020 by dougaj4

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 →

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Reinforced Concrete Design for Circular Sections to Eurocode 2

Posted on 26/07/2020 by dougaj4

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 →

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ULS Design Functions and EurocodeApplied

Posted on 12/07/2020 by dougaj4

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 →

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The Concrete Institute of Australia – Golden Jubilee

Posted on 25/04/2020 by dougaj4

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 →

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Biaxial bending update

Posted on 21/11/2019 by dougaj4

The reinforced concrete biaxial bending spreadsheet has now been updated: Stress block and capacity reduction factors updated for AS 3600-2018 ACI factors for US customary units used when stress is entered in ksi or psi units Example data updated The … Continue reading →

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