Category Archives: Concrete

AS 3600 (Concrete Structures Code) Amendment 1

Posted on 29/11/2010 by dougaj4

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

Posted on 30/10/2010 by dougaj4

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 …

Posted on 29/08/2010 by dougaj4

… 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

Posted on 24/08/2010 by dougaj4

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

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Lateral pile analyis with PY curves …

Posted on 17/07/2010 by dougaj4

… and non-linear pile properties. In previous posts I have presented Excel User Defined Functions (UDFs) to analyse a laterally loaded pile, generate soil PY Curves based on the recommendations in the COM624 Manual, and determine the flexural stiffness of cracked … Continue reading →

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