Category Archives: Newton

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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Composite Beam Spreadsheet

Posted on 22/04/2012 by dougaj4

As promised in the previous post, a spreadsheet for designing reinforced or prestressed concrete composite beams has now been uploaded to my web site.  It can be downloaded from: Composite Design Functions-GS.zip .  As usual, the spreadsheet includes full open-source code. … Continue reading →

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Composite Concrete Beam Analysis

Posted on 10/04/2012 by dougaj4

Composite concrete beams are widely used in both building and bridge structures; typically precast pretensioned beams are combined with an in-situ reinforced concrete slab to provide structures that are both efficient in use of materials and fast and easy to … Continue reading →

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Geometry for Joiners

Posted on 03/04/2012 by dougaj4

A question came up on the ABC Self-Service-Science Forum, asking for a solution to find the dimensions of a diagonal brace looking like the diagram below: The solution is not as simple as it might look because the angle of … Continue reading →

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Another Post About Everything

Posted on 27/03/2012 by dougaj4

We had a post about everything from xkcd before, but this one is a bit more sophisticated.  You can zoom in from this: down to this: and everything in between, at HTwins.net (if you get an ad for a game, click on … Continue reading →

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