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New Excel Engineering Blog
I just found Excel Unusual, which has been going since September this year. Here’s what the Author says: “Finding engineering work quite un-challenging lately I decided to start this blog in which to share cool ways of solving engineering problems or … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Excel, Newton
Tagged 3D graphics, animation, engineering, Excel, science
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Tanh-Sinh Quadrature Update 2
I have copied the latest version of Graeme Dennes’ Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet to my download site: Click here to download Tanh-Sinh.zip As before, the download includes full open-source code, and detailed notes by Graeme. In the new version the Gauss-Kronrod function … Continue reading
Posted in Excel, Maths, Newton, Numerical integration, UDFs, VBA
Tagged Excel, Gauss-Kronrod, numerical integration, Quadrature, Romberg, Tanh-Sinh, UDF, VBA
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The structural analysis of domes: From Pantheon until Reichstag
An interesting paper with technical details of several historical domed structures, available for free download, from Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey: The structural analysis of domes
Getting hard disk physical serial numbers
There was a question at Eng-Tips about how to get the physical serial number of a hard disk (rather than the soft number, that is changed by a re-format): http://eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=285948&page=1 A search found this discussion with the answer: http://thedailyreviewer.com/office/view/programmatically-obtain-the-hard-disks-serial-number-from-vba-101853101 (see answer … Continue reading
Newton Excel Bach, not (just) an Excel Blog 
RSS Feeds and Comments
I haven’t been using RSS feeds myself up to now, and I assumed they were just available for those who did, but it seems you have to activate them, so I have done that and you can now click on … Continue reading →