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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
ULS Design Functions – update for AS 3600
The ULS Design Functions spreadsheet (last posted here) has been updated to the new Australian Standard for concrete structures; AS 3600-2018. The new version can be downloaded from: ULS Design Functions.zip Note that the biaxial version included in the download … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged AS 3600, AS 5100, circular section, Excel, Reinforced Concrete, UDF, ULS Design Functions, VBA
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RC Design Functions 8_03
The RC Design Functions 8_03 spreadsheet is now available for free download from: RC Design Functions8.zip The main changes are: The NA layer check has been corrected for compression steel in tension The new AS 3600 crack width and curvature … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged AS 3600, crack width, Curvature, Excel, RC Design Functions, Reinforced Concrete, UDF, VBA
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AS 3600 and RC Design Functions 8.01
The updated RC Design Functions spreadsheet (presented here) included an updated UMom function to find the ultimate strength of a rectangular section under combined bending and axial load; but I omitted to include the revisions to the alpha2 and Gamma … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged AS 3600, Excel, Rectangular stress block factors, Reinforced Concrete Design Functions, UDF, ULS design, VBA
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New AS 3600 and RC Design Functions 8
A revised version of the Australian Concrete Structures code, AS 3600, was recently published, with many significant changes, including: Changes to ULS reduction Factors Creep and shrinkage Curvature and deflection calculations Crack width calculation and stress limits Major changes to … Continue reading
Composite Beam Spreadsheet Update 1.01
Following a comment here, I have modified the Composite Beam spreadsheet to correct the stage 1 stresses forces in the reinforcement as listed in Columns 6 and 7, when the tensile face is the top. The output has also been … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged AS 3600, AS 5100, Composite beam design, Excel, Prestressed concrete, Reinforced Concrete, UDF, VBA
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Stress increments in prestressed concrete beams
The two main Australian Standards covering prestressed concrete structures (AS 3600, Concrete Structures, and AS 5100 Part 5, Concrete Bridges) put a limit on the allowable increase in stress in reinforcement and prestressing strands and tendons, when the load increases from … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged AS 3600, AS 5100, Excel, Prestressed Concrete Design, Stress increment, UDF, VBA
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