Nothing at all to do with sheep...
Nothing at all to do with sheep...
A while ago (like over a year now), I added the New Zealand concrete design code to the excellent concrete-properties repository. I had COVID and got really bored, and actually ended up completing something! I’ve realised I never posted anything…
Something that really irks me when checking others concrete designs, is the apparent lack of knowledge surrounding moment or tension reinforcement development. Along with the concept of moment coverage diagrams to prove that all regions of your member have sufficient…
In Part 2 we covered the functions for creating coordinates for accurately representing shear reinforcement (stirrups and links) using an XY scatter chart in Excel. In this third and final part, we’ll cover the functions for outputting the minimum lengths…
Onto explaining the user defined functions, if you have no idea what I’m talking about go see Part 1.
One thing that irks me about a lot of spreadsheets I’ve seen created over the years is the fact that the inputs for something that can be visualised are hidden behind a few numbers in cells. No visual representations of…
Minimum steel, love it or hate it, we have minimums for a reason even if it seems like overkill sometimes given that we may have very low demands. This post will demonstrate why (I hope) we are required to comply…