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The Chieftains and Paddy Moloney
The Chieftains are a traditional Irish folk band who have been performing for nearly 60 years. Paddy Moloney was one of their founding members, and died in hospital on 12th October. He has received widespread tributes, including from the President … Continue reading
Making Finite Element Analysis go faster – Update and PyPardiso
The previous post on this topic looked at the performance of alternative Scipy sparse equation solvers. This post updates those results with the current Scipy version (1.7.1), with very different results. It also compares the Scipy solver performance with the … Continue reading
Posted in Arrays, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Frame Analysis, Link to Python, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL
Tagged Excel, PyPardiso, Python, PyXLL, SciPy, sparse matrices, sparse solvers
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Upgrade to Python 3.10?
Python 3.10 was released on October 4th, rapidly followed by a new release of pyxll (5.3.0), but the Anaconda site does not seem to have it yet, so is it time to upgrade or not. A search on that question … Continue reading
Steeleye Span Live
Two recent additions to You Tube with live performances from the early days of Steeleye Span: This has been a fun little restoration project. My friend and music journalist Simon Jones handed me an old VHS tape recently. On it … Continue reading
ConbeamU update
I recently discovered that the continuous beam function from the ConbeamU spreadsheet was giving incorrect results for cantilevers at the left hand end, if the cantilever had more than one segment and no point loads. The corrected version (Rel 4.16) … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Frame Analysis, Newton, Strand7, UDFs, VBA
Tagged ConBeamU, continuous beam analysis, Excel, Fixed End Moments, moving load, Restrained End Moments, Strand7, UDF, VBA
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Newton Excel Bach, not (just) an Excel Blog 