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Python code updates – 3DFrame-py
Recent changes to how Python treats comparing a Numpy array to an empty list have resulted in some of my functions returning errors and I am in the process of updating them. Specifically, when an optional argument to a function … Continue reading
Posted in Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Frame Analysis, Link to Python, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL, UDFs
Tagged 3DFrame-py, Excel, Frame Analysis, Numba, Numpy, PyPardiso, Python, PyXLL, SciPy.
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SectionProperties Release 3
Robbie van Leeuwen’s SectionProperties program, (last featured here) has recently been updated to Release 3 with some major changes to the code, including: Full documentation can be found at: SectionProperties docs Changes to the code have required updates to my Excel … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Link to Python, Newton, PyXLL, UDFs
Tagged Excel, Python, PyXLL, sectionproperties
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Happy Birthday, Sydney Opera House
The book “Developments in Structural Form” by Rowland Mainstone is a history of the development of structural design over thousands of years. The very first 20th Century building structure appearing in that book is the Sydney Opera House, which was … Continue reading
Posted in Arch structures, Bach, Concrete, Newton
Tagged 50th Anniversary, Peter Thompson, Sydney Opera House, Tim Minchin
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Longitudinal force due to shear – update
In the post RC Design Functions 9.03; compression strut angle adjustment I recommended that when finding the longitudinal force due to shear according to AS 5100.5 (Amendment 1), the effect of increased vertical shear reinforcement should be limited in accordance … Continue reading
Posted in Concrete, Excel, Link to Python, Newton, PyXLL, UDFs, VBA
Tagged Concrete, Design for Shear, Excel, longitudinal force due to shear, Python, PyXLL, py_UMom, RC Design Functions, VBA
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If Not Now
“This country is my home. This beautiful country, unique in all the world,” Kelly wrote in his statement on why he’s voting Yes earlier this week. “Our First Australians looked after it and shaped it for over 60,000 years and, in doing … Continue reading
