Category Archives: AlgLib

Column buckling under multiple loads

Posted on January 20, 2020 by dougaj4

Following another buckling discussion at Eng-tips I have modified my Frame4-buckle spreadsheet to allow input of multiple axial loads at any point along the column, along with any number of sections with different section properties.  Background on the method used … Continue reading →

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Update to AL-Spline-Matrix

Posted on November 28, 2017 by dougaj4

The AL-Spline-Matrix spreadsheet contains a large number of VBA user defined functions (UDFs) performing spline fitting and matrix operations, using the free and open source ALGLIB library. It was recently pointed out that the Excel interface code for the CSplineFitCW1da … Continue reading →

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Using Alglib least-squares solvers

Posted on September 23, 2017 by dougaj4

Following the last post on using the Python version of Alglib from Excel, via xlwings, this post looks in more detail at alternatives for fitting a non-linear function to a set of data, using the Levenberg-Marquardt method.  The spreadsheet with … Continue reading →

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Evaluating text and calling Python functions from Excel with xlwings

Posted on August 23, 2017 by dougaj4

The Alglib spreadsheet presented here includes functions to evaluate formulas entered as text on the spreadsheet, or to call specified Python functions.  I have now added a user defined function (UDF) that will perform either of these operations (xl_CallFuncD), and added … Continue reading →

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Excel to Alglib via xlwings

Posted on August 11, 2017 by dougaj4

The Alglib library provides many valuable numerical analysis routines, but the VBA version is no longer actively maintained.  The latest versions are available in C++, C#, and Python, of which the Python version (in conjunction with xlwings) provides the easiest interface … Continue reading →

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