Tag Archives: VBA

Reinforced Concrete Moment Curvature – Development over time

Posted on 28/08/2015 by dougaj4

I recently noticed that in the RC Design Functions spreadsheet the TimeCurve function had stopped working.  The function calculates the development of reinforced concrete section curvature over time, and was previously presented in Reinforced Concrete Moment-Curvature – 3; Restrained Shrinkage and Creep and Reinforced … Continue reading →

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Filling Blanks with Go To-Special (and local help rant)

Posted on 10/08/2015 by dougaj4

Recently a thread at the Eng-Tips forum prompted me to look for help on the Go To-Special function in Excel.  Pressing F5-Alt S, then clicking the help icon in the dialog box brought up: It seems that the offline help … Continue reading →

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ConBeamU 4.05 and ConBeampy 1.02

Posted on 15/07/2015 by dougaj4

The latest update of the two continuous beam spreadsheets can be downloaded from: ConBeamU.zip ConBeampy.zip The main changes are: A problem with point loads applied exactly at a support position has been corrected A function has been added to evaluate … Continue reading →

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New and updated links

Posted on 12/07/2015 by dougaj4

I have just updated my Blogroll, with 9 new links, and a couple of updates: Colin Caprani’s site is now back on-line I have updated the link to Jon Peltier’s blog dataprose.org was the source of many of the new links, … Continue reading →

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Section Properties – Lunes and Groups

Posted on 08/07/2015 by dougaj4

Following a discussion at Eng-Tips and resulting comments I have updated my Section Properties spreadsheet to include calculation of the area and centroid of a “Lune” (the shape of a crescent moon).  I have also added a “Re-draw Shape” button because … Continue reading →

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