Category Archives: Newton

ConbeamU Update; defined support deflections

Posted on 03/04/2015 by dougaj4

As promised in a recent post, I have updated the ConBeamU spreadsheet to allow defined deflections to be specified at any support. The new spreadsheet (including full open-source code), can be downloaded from ConBeamU.zip In addition to the support deflections the … Continue reading →

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Falling Faster

Posted on 26/03/2015 by dougaj4

A recent paper by  Alexander Klotz of McGill University, Montreal, has stirred a bit of interest in the pop-science press.  The paper looks at the old question of the time taken to fall through a hole passing through the centre … Continue reading →

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Getting concrete shrinkage right

Posted on 21/03/2015 by dougaj4

At the end of last year, very quietly, the commentary to the Australian Concrete Structures Code (AS 3600) was published.  The commentary provides a wide range of explanatory and background information to the requirements in the main code, including some … Continue reading →

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Pi day of the Century

Posted on 14/03/2015 by dougaj4

In North America, where today is 3-14-15, it is Pi day, and since there are not 31 days in April, the rest of us have to go along with that as well. Not only is it Pi day, it’s the … Continue reading →

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7 Year Report

Posted on 24/02/2015 by dougaj4

As in previous years, I have downloaded the statistics for this blog for the previous year, and pasted them into a worksheet. The link to each post is preserved in the spreadsheet, so it makes a convenient index to what … Continue reading →

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