Tag Archives: Reinforced Concrete Design Functions

RC Design Functions 9.03; compression strut angle adjustment

The RC Design Functions spreadsheet has now been updated to Version 9.03, and is available for free download from: RC Design Functions9.zip The new version includes a number of corrections to the calculation of beam shear and torsion capacity to … Continue reading

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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

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Automating Goal Seek with RC Design Functions

As promised in the previous post, I will now look in more detail at the process for automating the Excel Goal Seek function with the RC Design Functions spreadsheet, to calculate reinforcement area or section depth for a range of bending … Continue reading

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