Nothing at all to do with sheep...
Nothing at all to do with sheep...
Often in engineering you need to make simplification in analyses that make your life easier, often applying some judgement based on experience that involves some simplification in the analysis of a structure for example. Sometimes you do this in the…
This blog post is inspired by a recent post which I responded to on the EngTips forum. The question was related to finding the warping constant of back to back cold formed channels. The poster was querying the validity of…
Part 6 – Slicing & Dicing Based on the last two posts, I’d now reached the stage where I’d determined the general basis for calculating the force and centroid of the concrete compression force. This seemed like one of the…
Part 3 – Class Hell Week At some point I came to the realisation that I’m going to need classes in my code, I didn’t know what they were exactly, but I needed them! Everyone else used them, so I…
Part 2 – Bits & Pieces of Geometry A large part of the previous issues I was having with implementing a tool like this in Excel is the fact you have to generate your own routines (or find suitable ones…
Part 1 – Prelude So for a while I have been playing around with the idea of creating some kind of tool for the analysis, design and detailing of reinforced concrete sections. In the past I have used SPColumn at…