Category Archives: UDFs

Revision to CSpline2.xls

Posted on 11/11/2010 by dougaj4

It was recently reported to me that the cubic spline spreadsheet CSpline2.xls (posted here) was crashing on loading in Excel 2003.  It seems that the problem was with the ChartSpline function, and that there are no problems if this function is … Continue reading →

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Tanh-Sinh Quadrature update

Posted on 20/10/2010 by dougaj4

Graeme Dennes has been continuing work on his Tanh-Sinh Quadrature function, and recently sent me a revised version, which can be downloaded from: Tanh-Sinh.zip The main change is a new automatic tolerance adjustment feature which automatically increases the tolerance for … Continue reading →

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Interactive File List

Posted on 20/10/2010 by dougaj4

Microsoft recently introduced the facility to embed a link to a live spreadsheet stored on Windows Skydrive. This is my first attempt to use this facility.  The spreadsheet below is a list of all the files published on this blog, together … Continue reading →

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Faster Integration with the Tanh-Sinh Method

Posted on 10/10/2010 by dougaj4

In my previous post about numerical integration I mentioned that I would be writing about another lesser known method providing better speed and/or accuracy in many cases.  The method is known as Tanh-Sinh quadrature, and has been implemented in Excel by a reader … Continue reading →

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Working with FEM data and using the dictionary object

Posted on 26/09/2010 by dougaj4

This post features an Excel User Defined Function (UDF) to count the number of different element types (beams, plates, bricks and links) and the number of node restraints at each end of listed beams from a finite element model.  The … Continue reading →

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