Category Archives: UDFs

Perfect Anniversaries

The young author of  The Math Less Travelled has just celebrated his 28 birthday, noting that 28 is a perfect number.  He laments that since the next perfect number is 496, it is most unlikely that he will see another perfect … Continue reading

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Distributing Silverfrost Fortran Applications

Earlier posts have included User Defined Functions (UDFs) linked to Fortran dll files compiled with Silverfrost Personal Fortran: Solving simultaneous equations – Fortran dll Trigonometric Functions – dll Linking Excel to Fortran – 2 Transferring these files to a new computer it came to my … Continue reading

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Cubic Spline Update

The previous post in this series presented a User Defined Function (UDF) to fit  a cubic spline to a series of points defined by XY coordinates.  Each segment of the resulting spline is defined by a separate cubic curve, which may be … Continue reading

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Reinforced Concrete Moment-Curvature – 2; Shrinkage and Creep

The previous post in this series provided an Excel User Defined Function (UDF) to find  the short term curvature of a reinforced concrete section subject to combined bending and axial load.  In this post UDFs will be presented to determine the strain … Continue reading

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Reinforced Concrete Moment-Curvature – 1

The flexural curvature of any beam composed of material with linear elastic behaviour, subject to a bending moment, M, is given by: C = M / EI where E is the elastic modulus of the beam, and I is its … Continue reading

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