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Solving the Lagrangian Point equation for the Moon
This post was prompted by a recent question at Fitting high order polynomials, asking for Excel methods to solve the equations for the radius of the Moon’s Lagrangian Point 1. All the methods described in this post have been added to … Continue reading
Posted in Excel, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged Excel, iterative solution, Lagrangian point, Newton, polynomial solution, UDFs, VBA
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ULS design of circular reinforced concrete columns
The RC Design Functions spreadsheet has been updated (to Version 8.04) with the addition of a CircU function for ULS design of circular reinforced concrete sections under combined bending and axial load. The new version, including full open-source code, may … Continue reading
ULS Design Functions – update for AS 3600
The ULS Design Functions spreadsheet (last posted here) has been updated to the new Australian Standard for concrete structures; AS 3600-2018. The new version can be downloaded from: ULS Design Functions.zip Note that the biaxial version included in the download … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged AS 3600, AS 5100, circular section, Excel, Reinforced Concrete, UDF, ULS Design Functions, VBA
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Working with dynamic arrays in Excel
Many of the VBA functions available here return results as arrays, which must be entered by selecting the desired output range, then pressing Ctrl-Shift-Enter (CSE). This can be inconvenient (or at least untidy) when the size of the output array varies. … Continue reading
Posted in Arrays, Excel, UDFs, VBA
Tagged Charles Williams, dynamic arrays, Excel, Fast Excel, VBA, Wndows Insider
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RC Design Functions 8_03
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 AS 3600, crack width, Curvature, Excel, RC Design Functions, Reinforced Concrete, UDF, VBA
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Numerical Integration; Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v. 4.42
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 Double Exponential, Excel, Gauss-Kronrod, numerical integration, Romberg, Tanh-Sinh method, Tanh-Sinh Quadrature, UDF, VBA
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mpmath for Excel
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 evaluate pi, Excel, high precision maths, mpmath, Python, PyXLL, UDFs, VBA, xlwings
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