Category Archives: Concrete

Concrete 2021

Posted on 29/07/2021 by dougaj4

Edit 12th August: Extended early-bird registrations are now finally closing tomorrow, Friday 13th August! Concrete 2021 (the 30th Biennial Conference of the Concrete Institute of Australia) is just around the corner, and this year will be all on-line: The virtual … Continue reading →

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ULS Design Functions 2.13

Posted on 11/07/2021 by dougaj4

Update 17 May 2022: Following discussion on 10-11 May 22 the download file has been updated to version 2.15, fixing problems with the interaction diagram with a rectangular stress block under high axial loads. I have uploaded another update to … Continue reading →

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ULS Design Functions update

Posted on 23/05/2021 by dougaj4

The ULS Design Functions spreadsheet has been updated with further changes related to the new Australian Standard for concrete structures; AS 3600-2018, and with some other fixes.  The new version can be downloaded from: ULS Design Functions.zip The changes in … Continue reading →

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Elastic Biaxial Bending

Posted on 11/04/2021 by dougaj4

Spreadsheets performing Ultimate Limit State analysis with biaxial moments have been presented previously, most recently here: Biaxial bending update I have now modified the Beam Design Functions spreadsheet to carry out a biaxial moment analysis with linear elastic material properties. … Continue reading →

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More on RC design of circular sections

Posted on 23/12/2020 by dougaj4

Following the last post on this topic (Reinforced Concrete Design for Circular Sections to Eurocode 2) I have added provision for parabolic-linear concrete stress blocks to the ULS Design Functions spreadsheet. The Circu function in the RC Design Functions spreadsheet has … Continue reading →

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