Category Archives: Newton

ULS design of reinforced concrete to AS 3600 and ACI 318

Posted on 05/12/2010 by dougaj4

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

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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Maximum distance between two points

Posted on 27/11/2010 by dougaj4

I have just written a short User Defined Function (UDF) to find the maximum distance between any two points from a list of coordinates, and since it may be useful to others, I will post it here.  Here is the … Continue reading →

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New Excel Engineering Blog

Posted on 26/11/2010 by dougaj4

I just found Excel Unusual, which has been going since September this year.  Here’s what the Author says: “Finding engineering work quite un-challenging lately I decided to start this blog in which to share cool ways of solving engineering problems or … Continue reading →

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Tanh-Sinh Quadrature Update 2

Posted on 22/11/2010 by dougaj4

I have copied the latest version of Graeme Dennes’ Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet to my download site:  Click here to download Tanh-Sinh.zip As before, the download includes full open-source code, and detailed notes by Graeme. In the new version the Gauss-Kronrod function … Continue reading →

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