Author Archives: dougaj4

Installing Windows 10 …

Posted on 03/08/2015 by dougaj4

… did not go well. After installing over night it needed another half hour or so to “just finish off a few things”, after which it briefly displayed the desktop, followed by a message saying that it was going to … Continue reading →

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Indexing pdf content

Posted on 30/07/2015 by dougaj4

I recently discovered that my 64 bit Windows 8.1 Search was not indexing the content of pdf files.  Since searching the content of pdf files is just about the only thing I want to do with a desktop search tool, … Continue reading →

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Solvers, parsers and more

Posted on 18/07/2015 by dougaj4

Links to some really useful recently discovered sites: OpenSolver for Excel OpenSolver is an Excel VBA add-in that extends Excel’s built-in Solver with more powerful solvers. It is developed and maintained by Andrew Mason and students at the Engineering Science … Continue reading →

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A mystery curve links to Jupyter

Posted on 16/07/2015 by dougaj4

Reviewing some of my less visited links recently, I was intrigued by a post at The Math Less Travelled: The previous post at the site provides more details of the source of the curve, and some links to an interactive … 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 →

Posted in Beam Bending, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Frame Analysis, Link to Python, Newton, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment