Category Archives: Excel

Frame Analysis with Excel – 4, 2D frame analysis

Posted on 15/02/2009 by dougaj4

Continuing from: Frame Analysis with Excel – 3, Continuous beam or frame Download Frame1.zip – the download file includes complete open source code. The continuous beam spreadsheet presented in the previous post has been modified to deal with 2D frames where any … Continue reading →

Posted in Beam Bending, Excel, Frame Analysis, Newton, Uncategorized, VBA | Tagged , , , | 20 Comments

Multiple Match Function

Posted on 11/02/2009 by dougaj4

The Excel function MATCH() will find the position of the first occurrence of a specified number or string in a range of data, but what if you want to find the first row in a table that contains two or … Continue reading →

Posted in Excel, UDFs, VBA | 5 Comments

Frame Analysis with Excel – 3, Continuous beam or frame

Posted on 10/02/2009 by dougaj4

Continuing from Frame Analysis with Excel 2 – Single inclined beam Download Beam3.zip – the download file includes complete open source code. The spreadsheet for a single inclined beam presented in the previous post has been modified to deal with up … Continue reading →

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Frame Analysis with Excel 2 – Single inclined beam

Posted on 04/02/2009 by dougaj4

This post continues from – Frame Analysis with Excel 1 – Single beam Download Beam2.zip The stiffness matrix shown in the previous post was for a single beam with loads applied either perpendicular to the beam, or along the longitudinal beam axis, … Continue reading →

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Spreadsheet Hell

Posted on 02/02/2009 by dougaj4

“I, too, am in spreadsheet hell” Why am I linking to yet another data analysis guy whinging about Excel? Mostly because I liked what he said on his Home sheet: “I’m a number cruncher, SAS programmer, Linux user, and an … Continue reading →

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