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    Concrete formwork design using a microcomputer spreadsheet program
    (University of New Brunswick, 1989) Benson, T. Scott; Christian, John; J., Christian; U., Mir Saif
    The American Concrete Institute's formwork design procedure, which is currently the most popular design process in Atlantic Canada, is long,tedious and susceptible to error. A user-friendly computer program was written on a Lotus 123 spreadsheet to model this design procedure. The program accepts various design criteria and generates the most appropriate formwork system. The speed of computation allows a quick sensitivity analysis between alternate formwork systems by changing individual design variables. Thus enabling the engineer to optimize the concrete formwork.