Category Archives: UDFs

Newton-Raphson and Brent’s Method – Solver examples

Posted on 08/11/2020 by dougaj4

I recently discovered the Computing Skillset site (via open-struct-engineer), which has good information on the basis and use of the Newton-Raphson method: The Newton Raphson method explained, details, pictures, python code Highly instructive examples for the Newton Raphson method I … Continue reading →

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Numerical Integration With Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v 5.0

Posted on 29/10/2020 by dougaj4

Graeme Dennes has updated his Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet to V 5.0. The new version (including full open source code) may be downloaded from: Tanh-Sinh Quadrature Graeme’s summary of the new features in the spreadsheet: The Tanh-Sinh quadrature workbook has been … Continue reading →

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Using Excel with Python and ctypes

Posted on 05/10/2020 by dougaj4

The Strand7 API provides an interface between the Strand7 Finite Element Analysis program and external software. It works with many different languages, including Python, which uses ctypes to transfer data to and from the API functions. It is essential that … Continue reading →

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Spherical Geometry and Vincenty’s Formulae

Posted on 27/09/2020 by dougaj4

Wikipedia has detailed articles on: Spherical Geometry  and Vincenty’s Formulae (for geometric calculations on an ellipsoid). The spreadsheet Vincenty.zip uses those resources to perform the following calculations, using both on-sheet calculations and VBA user-defined functions (UDF’s): Calculation of distance and … Continue reading →

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Section Properties for Rotated Shapes

Posted on 06/08/2020 by dougaj4

I have just posted an update to my section properties spreadsheet, last discussed at: Using Section Properties- Group The new version can be downloaded from: Section Properties07-Group.zip The main sheet provides section properties for a wide variety of defined shapes: This … Continue reading →

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