Category Archives: Excel

A Numpy trap – correction

Posted on July 20, 2021 by dougaj4

In my post of 30th May this year (here) I said that: As a check that the functions were working correctly, the Python functions were modified to return the sum of the largest array in the first row, revealing that … Continue reading →

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On long and short formulas and VBA

Posted on July 17, 2021 by dougaj4

A recent thread at Eng-Tips asked the following apparently simple question: Starting with a string consisting of numbers with a single central group of letters, how can this string be truncated at the end of the letters, so that for … Continue reading →

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ULS Design Functions 2.13

Posted on July 11, 2021 by dougaj4

I have uploaded another update to the ULS Design Functions spreadsheet with some new features and fixes.  The new version can be downloaded from: ULS Design Functions.zip The changes in the new version are: Stress block type 3 will now … Continue reading →

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Making Finite Element Analysis go faster …

Posted on June 27, 2021 by dougaj4

… with Numba and Scipy sparse matrix functions. As promised in the previous post in this series, I will be looking at speeding up the formation and solving of matrix functions for the analysis of structural frames, using Excel and … Continue reading →

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Downloading with Chrome

Posted on June 11, 2021 by dougaj4

I recently discovered (via a helpful comment) that clicking on any download link on this blog, when using Chrome, raised a message saying: The site ahead contains harmful programs I have now managed to get Google to agree that there … Continue reading →

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