Category Archives: Concrete

Daily Download 3: ULS design of reinforced concrete sections

Posted on 19/09/2012 by dougaj4

Today’s downloads provide a spreadsheet providing Ultimate Limit State (ULS) analysis of reinforced or prestressed concrete sections, and an iterative method for finding the depth of the Neutral Axis in a circular reinforced concrete section. The ULS analysis spreadsheet is described at: … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 2: SLS design of reinforced concrete sections …

Posted on 18/09/2012 by dougaj4

… and prestressed concrete sections. Today’s download installment covers spreadsheets for design of reinforced and prestressed concrete beams and columns at the Serviceability Limit State (SLS).  The spreadsheets cover design of rectangular and circular sections, sections made up of any … Continue reading →

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ULS Analysis of Concrete Beams; now with added units

Posted on 09/08/2012 by dougaj4

The spreadsheet for Ultimate Limit State Analysis of reinforced or prestressed concrete beams, previously presented here, has been combined with the Units4Excel spreadsheet to allow the program to work with any selected units, SI or non-SI.  Provision for the American … Continue reading →

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Composite Beam Spreadsheet 3

Posted on 08/05/2012 by dougaj4

The Composite Beam Analysis spreadsheet, previously discussed at: https://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/composite-beam-spreadsheet-2/ has now been updated with a VBA User Defined Function (UDF) in place of the previous macro that used the Excel Goal-Seek command.  This has two main advantages: The UDF is much faster … Continue reading →

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Composite Beam Spreadsheet – 2

Posted on 27/04/2012 by dougaj4

The previous post on this topic presented a spreadsheet performing elastic analysis of composite reinforced or prestressed composite beams, available for download from: Composite Design Functions-GS.zip.  This post will look in more detail at how the spreadsheet works, and a preview … Continue reading →

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