Tag Archives: Macaulay’s Method

Unit aware continuous beam spreadsheet update

Posted on 22/11/2013 by dougaj4

The ConbeamU spreadsheet provides Excel user defined functions (UDFs) for the analysis of continuous and simply supported beams and cantilevers using Macaulay’s method.  It allows complex combinations of any number of partial distributed loads, point loads and moments, with changes … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 4: Continuous Beam Analysis

Posted on 20/09/2012 by dougaj4

Today’s download files contain several alternative functions for analysing continuous beams. The most flexible is the ConBeamU spreadsheet, which in addition to the continuous beam function also contains functions for single span beams and cantilevers, and for fixed end moments and … Continue reading →

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Continuous Beam Spreadsheet – with Units

Posted on 06/09/2012 by dougaj4

The spreadsheet previously known as Macaulay has been updated to include “unit aware” versions of all the included functions, and has been renamed “ConBeamU”, to make it more obvious what it does.  The new spreadsheet (including full opens source code) can be … Continue reading →

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Cantilevers with shear deflections

Posted on 24/08/2012 by dougaj4

At the end of last year I updated the Macaulay spreadsheet to include shear deflections for continuous beams, but this facility was not added to the Cantilever function.  That has now been fixed in the latest version, that can be … Continue reading →

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Using UDFs – Continuous Beam Example

Posted on 03/05/2012 by dougaj4

Recently (well a month ago) a comment was left at Continuous Beams with Shear Deflections asking for a tutorial on how to use the ConBeam User Defined Function (UDF).  In this post I will give detailed instructions for the ConBeam function, but similar … Continue reading →

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