Author Archives: dougaj4

Maximum distance between two points

I have just written a short User Defined Function (UDF) to find the maximum distance between any two points from a list of coordinates, and since it may be useful to others, I will post it here.  Here is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Coordinate Geometry, Excel, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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

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