Category Archives: UDFs

Spreadsheet Link – Abbott Aerospace Consultants

Abbott Aerospace has a wide range of spreadsheets available for free download. Many are intended for specific aerospace design applications, but some are for general purpose engineering applications, such as calculation of section properties. A general purpose add-in of particular … Continue reading

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Composite Beam Spreadsheet – 2

The previous post on this topic presented a spreadsheet performing elastic analysis of composite reinforced or prestressed composite beams, available for download from: Composite Design Functions-GS.zip.  This post will look in more detail at how the spreadsheet works, and a preview … Continue reading

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Composite Beam Spreadsheet

As promised in the previous post, a spreadsheet for designing reinforced or prestressed concrete composite beams has now been uploaded to my web site.  It can be downloaded from: Composite Design Functions-GS.zip .  As usual, the spreadsheet includes full open-source code. … Continue reading

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Geometry for Joiners

A question came up on the ABC Self-Service-Science Forum, asking for a solution to find the dimensions of a diagonal brace looking like the diagram below: The solution is not as simple as it might look because the angle of … Continue reading

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Getting the address of a selected range

The Excel Indirect() function allows other functions to use the text in a worksheet cell to define a range, rather than selecting the range, or entering it directly into the function. For instance, if cell A1 contained the text B1:B10, … Continue reading

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