Category Archives: Beam Bending

Mohr’s Circle and Plate Stresses and Actions

Posted on 27/10/2012 by dougaj4

The functions described in this post can be found in the download file PlateStress.zip, including examples and full open source code. The function MCircle returns the plane stress components (XX, YY and XY stress) for any specified stress field, when rotated through a … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 28: The Hole Through the Middle of the Earth, using ODE solvers, and Three Blokes

Posted on 16/10/2012 by dougaj4

Today’s download is based on a series of posts on the “hole through the middle of the Earth”, which by devious means has been tied in with the solution of differential equations, buckling of columns, and a story by Bill … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 22: Splines and Curves

Posted on 08/10/2012 by dougaj4

Since it was first published in 2009 my CSpline function has been the most popular download from this site.  CSpline (and various associated functions) is used to fit a series of cubic curves through specified points, allowing interpolation along a smooth … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 21: Assorted Solvers

Posted on 08/10/2012 by dougaj4

Today’s download starts with some simple linear interpolation methods used to solve polynomial equations, leading on to more sophisticated methods using quadratic or inverse quadratic interpolation. Also included is a solver for differential equations using the Cash-Karp Method, which is … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 7: Lateraly loaded pile analysis

Posted on 23/09/2012 by dougaj4

Today’s downloads (the last in the Engineering category) are related to the analysis of piles subject to lateral loads: LatPile – Analysis of Lateral Loads on Piles describes the principles of the analysis. Download file: http://interactiveds.com.au/software/LatPile.zip  P-Y Curve function describes function to … Continue reading →

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