Category Archives: Excel

RC Design Functions 8_03

Posted on 30/04/2019 by dougaj4

The RC Design Functions 8_03 spreadsheet is now available for free download from: RC Design Functions8.zip The main changes are: The NA layer check has been corrected for compression steel in tension The new AS 3600 crack width and curvature … Continue reading →

Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

3D Frame with zero stiffness hinges

Posted on 09/04/2019 by dougaj4

The previous version of 3DFrame allowed for spring releases at beam ends, but if the release stiffness was entered as zero it was treated as a rigid connection for that freedom.  Effectively zero stiffness releases could be modelled by entering … Continue reading →

Posted in Beam Bending, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Frame Analysis, Newton | Tagged , , , , , | 11 Comments

Numerical Integration; Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v. 4.42

Posted on 17/03/2019 by dougaj4

Back to Newton and Excel. I recently received a new update to the Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet from Graeme Dennes, which may be downloaded from: Tanh_Sinh Quadrature. From the Readme: The Tanh-Sinh quadrature workbook has been enhanced as follows: The Tanh-Sinh … Continue reading →

Posted in Charts, Excel, Maths, Newton, Numerical integration, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

Multiple Integration with Scipy

Posted on 31/01/2019 by dougaj4

Scipy has 3 functions for multiple numerical integration in the scipy.integrate module: dblquad: Compute a double integral. tplquad: Compute a triple integral’ nquad: Integration over multiple variables. I have written six functions to call these functions from Excel, via Pyxll: Each … Continue reading →

Posted in Excel, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, Numerical integration, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL, UDFs | Tagged , , , , , | 6 Comments

mpmath for Excel

Posted on 13/01/2019 by dougaj4

mpmath has been mentioned in passing here before, but not in any detail.  The mpmath site says: mpmath is a free (BSD licensed) Python library for real and complex floating-point arithmetic with arbitrary precision. It has been developed by Fredrik … Continue reading →

Posted in Excel, Link to Python, Maths, PyXLL, UDFs, VBA, xlwings | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments