Category Archives: Concrete

ULS design of reinforced concrete to AS 3600 and ACI 318

Following on from the previous post I have modified my RC Design Functions spreadsheet to incorporate the US ACI 318 design code requirements, as well as the recent revision to the Australian code, AS 3600.  The revised spreadsheet will be uploaded … Continue reading →

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AS 3600 (Concrete Structures Code) Amendment 1

The first amendment to the current (2009) version of the Australian Standard for Concrete Structures (AS 3600) was recently released for free download.  SAI Global have not seen fit to notify purchasers of the standard of this amendment, but it … Continue reading →

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Stress blocks in AS 3600

The long awaited update to the Australian Standard for concrete structures (AS 3600 – 2009) provides rules for the design of structures with concrete up to a compressive strength of 100 MPa.  Unfortunately there are a number of significant typographical errors … Continue reading →

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Route Map …

… so we know where we are going. I’ll be starting several, to some extent interlinked, new themes in this blog over the coming weeks.  Firstly VBA Classes.  Regular readers may have noticed that my VBA code tends to be … Continue reading →

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Concrete Column Blind Prediction Contest

Seems like fun; more details here: Concrete Column Blind Prediction Contest

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