Category Archives: Excel

More on combined shear and bending design to AS 3600

Further to the last post on this subject I have been looking at procedures to speed up design for shear to AS 3600 when the “refined” analysis procedure is used. The issues that need to be addressed are: I have … Continue reading

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Latex Maths Text in Excel

There have been many posts here looking at alternative ways of working with functions entered as text on a spreadsheet, and working with units, most recently here. One drawback with this approach is that text in an Excel cell must … Continue reading

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Go Your Way

We haven’t had any Bach for a bit, so here is: An excellent cover of Anne Briggs’ song, Go Your Way: And Anne Briggs herself singing the song, accompanied by Bert Jansch: Go Your Way Anne Briggs And another cover … Continue reading

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RC Design Functions 9.03; compression strut angle adjustment

The RC Design Functions spreadsheet has now been updated to Version 9.03, and is available for free download from: RC Design Functions9.zip The new version includes a number of corrections to the calculation of beam shear and torsion capacity to … Continue reading

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Linking to Python help from Excel

The py_Numpy spreadsheet presented in the previous post has been updated: The new version can be downloaded from: py_Numpy.zip As before, the pyxll add-in is required for the connection from Excel to Python. All the available functions are listed on … Continue reading

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