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Reinforced Concrete Section Analysis – with prestress

The simplified reinforced concrete section analysis spreadsheet presented here has been revised to allow the input of a pre-tension stress to either or both layers of reinforcement.  The spreadsheet (including full open source code) can be downloaded from RC Design Functions5. Note … Continue reading

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Reinforced Concrete Section Analysis – 5; Ultimate Limit State

Previous posts in this series have looked at the analysis of beams where the steel stress is within the elastic range, and the concrete stress is sufficiently low that the assumption of linear elastic behaviour in compression is a reasonable approximation.  … Continue reading

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