Category Archives: Concrete

Reinforced Concrete Moment-Curvature – 2; Shrinkage and Creep

Posted on 08/12/2009 by dougaj4

The previous post in this series provided an Excel User Defined Function (UDF) to find  the short term curvature of a reinforced concrete section subject to combined bending and axial load.  In this post UDFs will be presented to determine the strain … Continue reading →

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Reinforced Concrete Moment-Curvature – 1

Posted on 22/11/2009 by dougaj4

The flexural curvature of any beam composed of material with linear elastic behaviour, subject to a bending moment, M, is given by: C = M / EI where E is the elastic modulus of the beam, and I is its … Continue reading →

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Reinforced Concrete Section Analysis – with prestress

Posted on 25/10/2009 by dougaj4

The simplified reinforced concrete section analysis spreadsheet presented here has been revised to allow the input of a pre-tension stress to either or both layers of reinforcement.  The spreadsheet (including full open source code) can be downloaded from RC Design Functions5. Note … Continue reading →

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Update to Publications

Posted on 02/10/2009 by dougaj4

I have (at long last) updated my list of publications (all downloadable). Click on the link below to visit the site, or download direct from the list here. My Publications Here is the current list:     Predicting the Deflection … Continue reading →

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Concrete 09 Call for Abstracts – Closes 14th November

Posted on 07/11/2008 by dougaj4

Concrete 09, the bi-annual conference of the Concrete Institute of Australia will be held from 17th to 19th September 2009 at Luna Park, Sydney.  The theme of the conference is “adding value in changing climates”.  The closing date for submission … Continue reading →

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