Category Archives: Beam Bending

Monte Carlo simulation with Excel and Python

The pyxll blog has a post from last year on Monte Carlo Simulations in Excel with Python, with examples and full code going from the simplest implementation to more refined code allowing all the calculations to be set up on … Continue reading

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… and finally py_xlCBA 0.6 with trapezoidal loads

The latest version of the Python continuous beam analysis program pyCBA is 0.7, allowing for specification of trapezoidal distributed loads, and this is now available with pip. I have updated the py-xlCBA spreadsheet and associated code to use the latest … Continue reading

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… and then py_xlCBA 0.5

Following the previous post, more detailed checking found that the code was returning an error for beams with a support at X = 0. This has now been fixed, and the revised code and spreadsheets can be downloaded from: py_xlCBA.zip … Continue reading

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py_xlCBA 0.04

The pyCBA code has now been updated to allow for supports with specified displacements (release 0.6 or later). My py_xlCBA spreadsheet and associated functions have been updated to call the pyCBA code for displacement analysis, rather than using my add-on … Continue reading

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2DFrame-py

… and 3DFrame-py update. I have added code to the 3DFrame-py module to allow simplified input for 2D frame analysis. The revised code and example spreadsheets can be downloaded from: 3DFrame-py.zip There are also miscellaneous minor revisions to the 3DFrame … Continue reading

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