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Mathcad simplifies Eurocodes
SOFTWARE, SOLUTIONS, SERVICES
FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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Mathcad simplifies Eurocodes
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SOFTWARE, SOLUTIONS, SERVICES
FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
ELEMENT DESIGN to BS 8110:2005
– simple Tee & L beams Excel solution
Desired output from an Excel sheet
Documentation efforts required for the desired display in Excel
Examine the first line of the output required from the Excel sheet
Each line takes 10 mins to write
Each line takes 10 mins to validate
Each line takes 10 mins to
understand during re-use
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Mathcad simplifies Eurocodes
SOFTWARE, SOLUTIONS, SERVICES
FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
ELEMENT DESIGN to BS 8110:2005
– simple Tee & L beams Mathcad solution
Take the first line of the output from the Excel Sheet
Implement this in Mathcad
Takes a few
minutes to
write out,
validate and
make sense
of for re-use!
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Mathcad simplifies Eurocodes
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What has changed? – Eurocode 5
• BS 5268 (the ‘old’ Timber Engineering Standard)
– Mainly calculated using tables with few formulae
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Mathcad simplifies Eurocodes
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FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
What has changed? – Eurocode 5
• Eurocode 5 (the ‘new’ Timber Engineering Standard)
– Mainly calculated using tables with few formulae
y
g
?
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Mathcad simplifies Eurocodes
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FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
?
Mathcad is the right solution to implement Eurocodes!
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Mathcad simplifies Eurocodes
SOFTWARE, SOLUTIONS, SERVICES
FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Customer’s Mathcad sheet
Calculation based on Eurocode 2
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