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Tag Archives: ACI 318
Biaxial bending update
The reinforced concrete biaxial bending spreadsheet has now been updated: Stress block and capacity reduction factors updated for AS 3600-2018 ACI factors for US customary units used when stress is entered in ksi or psi units Example data updated The … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Newton
Tagged ACI 318, AS 3600, biaxial bending, Eurocode 2, Excel, Reinforced Concrete, UDFs, ULS Design Functions, VBA
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ULS design of circular reinforced concrete columns
The RC Design Functions spreadsheet has been updated (to Version 8.04) with the addition of a CircU function for ULS design of circular reinforced concrete sections under combined bending and axial load. The new version, including full open-source code, may … Continue reading
Working with implied units – update
Following comments at Eng-Tips I have added two examples with different procedures for evaluating ACI equations for the flexural tensile strength of concrete here.
Posted in Excel, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged ACI 318, Customary US Units, Eval, EvalU, Evaluate text, Excel, Implied units, shear capacity, SI Units, UDF, Units aware, Units4Excel, VBA
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Working with implied units
The Units4Excel spreadsheet provides a number of functions to convert between different units and evaluate functions entered as text on the spreadsheet, taking account of the units of both the inputs and the results. The latest version can be downloaded from: … Continue reading
Posted in Concrete, Excel, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged ACI 318, Customary US Units, Eval, EvalU, Evaluate text, Excel, Implied units, shear capacity, SI Units, UDF, Units aware, Units4Excel, VBA
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Using RC Design Functions 4 – Umom and new MaxAx function
Previous post in this series. Download latest version of RC Design Functions6. Previous posts in this series have looked at elastic design functions. We now move on to functions for ultimate limit state (ULS) analysis of reinforced concrete sections: UMom: … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged ACI 318, AS 3600, AS 5100, BS 5400, BS 8110, Combined bending and axial load, EC 2, Excel, slender columns, UDF, ULS Analysis, VBA
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ULS design of reinforced concrete, AS, ACI and European codes
The previous post in this series compared the results of current and previous Australian Standards, and the ACI 318 code, for the ultimate bending capacity of a rectangular reinforced concrete section, subject to combined bending and axial load. I have now extended … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Newton, UDFs
Tagged ACI 318, AS 3600, BS 5400, BS 8110, Concrete, EC 2, Reinforced Concrete, Section Analysis, Ultimate capacity
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ULS design of reinforced concrete to AS 3600 and ACI 318
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
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Newton
Tagged ACI 318, AS 3600, Concrete, Reinforced Concrete, Section Analysis, Ultimate capacity
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