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py_Conbeam – 4
The last post in the current series compares results from the py_Conbeam function with beam analysis results from the Strand7 FEA software. There have been further significant changes to the Python code and the spreadsheet, so please download the latest … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Frame Analysis, Link to Python, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL, Strand7, UDFs
Tagged beam analysis, Cantilever beams, continuous beams, Deflection due to shear, Excel, Python, PyXLL, py_Conbeam, Strand7, UDFs
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py_Conbeam – 3
Continuing from the previous post, we will move on to the py_Conbeam and py_MovLoad functions, that combine with the previous functions to analyse continuous beams with any number of spans and section types, under static or moving loads. As before, there … Continue reading
py_ConBeam – 2
Continuing from the previous post, today I will be looking at the Macaulay function, that performs the underlying analysis, and the application of this function to cantilevers and single span beams. There have been some significant changes to the Python … Continue reading
py_ConBeamU
I have now converted the VBA code in the ConBeamU spreadsheet to Python, connected to Excel via pyxll. The new spreadsheet and associated Python code can be downloaded from: py_ConBeamU.zip In addition to the provided files, the pyxll application is … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Frame Analysis, Link to Python, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL, UDFs
Tagged beam analysis, Excel, Fixed-end moments, Python, PyXLL, py_Conbeamu, Restrained End Moments, UDFs
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Three English Dances
You Tube links to John Renbourn playing The English Dance posted here previously have been deleted, so here other two other performers’ versions: Cover of John Renbourn’s arrangement of a traditional medieval tune simply known as “English Dance”. Great guitarist … Continue reading
Posted in Bach
Tagged Clive Carroll, English Dance, Johannes Norris-Brown, John Renbourn
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