Author Archives: dougaj4

More Open Source FEA Code Links

The book Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Structures 2nd Edition has an associated python code package called pyFEM, but a search for this code finds several others with the same or similar names: The pyFEM sites associated with the … Continue reading

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Lost Sydney

Lost Sydney is a Facebook site with 100’s of photographs of Sydney, some dating back well over 100 years. This is Sydney’s story. Lost Sydney is not just about demolished buildings, it’s also about photos of Sydney’s past. Lost Sydney

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Extracting text from an Internet table

For use in my Units spreadsheet (Units4Excel) I want to extract the unit conversion values from the comprehensive Wikipedia unit conversion table. On Wikipedia the table looks like this: and when copied and pasted as Unicode text into Excel, like … Continue reading

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Tanh-Sinh Quadrature update

Following some comments here Graeme Dennes and I have modified the start-up code for the Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet to avoid problems opening the file when first downloaded, or copied to a new computer. The new file is located (as before) … Continue reading

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Four Forgotten Female Folkies

Barbara Dane In her speech to the GI Movement of the Vietnam War Era (whose text can be found in the booklet that’s included in Paredon Records’ FTA! Songs of the GI Resistance vinyl album of 1970), Barbara Dane said, “I was too stubborn … Continue reading

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