Tag Archives: AS 3600

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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Stress blocks in AS 3600

Posted on 30/10/2010 by dougaj4

The long awaited update to the Australian Standard for concrete structures (AS 3600 – 2009) provides rules for the design of structures with concrete up to a compressive strength of 100 MPa.  Unfortunately there are a number of significant typographical errors … Continue reading →

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Reinforced Concrete Moment-Curvature – 3; Restrained Shrinkage and Creep

Posted on 23/01/2010 by dougaj4

The previous post in this series provided Excel User Defined Functions (UDFs) to find the strain in a concrete section due to unrestrained creep and shrinkage.  In this post the effect of restraint of the creep and shrinkage strains by … Continue reading →

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Just in Time for Christmas!

Posted on 21/12/2009 by dougaj4

The new version of the Australian Standard Concrete Structures Code (AS 3600) has just made it for 2009: Download from SAI Global

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Reinforced Concrete Moment-Curvature – 2; Shrinkage and Creep

Posted on 08/12/2009 by dougaj4

The previous post in this series provided an Excel User Defined Function (UDF) to find  the short term curvature of a reinforced concrete section subject to combined bending and axial load.  In this post UDFs will be presented to determine the strain … Continue reading →

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