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Dave Swarbrick
Dave Swarbrick shared with Mark Twain the privilege of saying that reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated. Sadly, that is no longer true; he died on 3rd June this year, a fact not widely reported in Australia (although … Continue reading
FEA slope analysis; effect of mesh size
The last version of the FEA slope analysis spreadsheet (presented here) allows the slope shape and element density to be easily varied. This post looks at the effect of varying the density from very coarse to fine, with constant soil … Continue reading
Linking Excel to Fortran with ctypes; update
In the previous post arrays were created in Python and passed to a Fortran dll as ctype pointers. The data written to these arrays in the Fortran routines was then converted back to Python arrays with statements such as: nodedisp = npc.as_array(nodedisp). … Continue reading
Linking Excel to Fortran, via xlwings, Python and ctypes
Continuing the recent series on using Fortran code published in Programming the Finite Element Method (5th ed. John Wiley & Sons, I.M. Smith, D.V. Griffiths and L. Margetts (2014)), this post looks at linking Excel to Fortran code compiled as … Continue reading
Compiling Fortran code for Windows
This post is a continuation of a recent series, using Fortran code published in Programming the Finite Element Method (5th ed. John Wiley & Sons, I.M. Smith, D.V. Griffiths and L. Margetts (2014)). The compiled file provided in the download should … Continue reading
Posted in Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Fortran, Newton, VBA
Tagged Excel, FEA, Fortran, Mohr-Coulomb, plane strain, Programming the Finite Element Method, soil-structure interaction, VBA
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