Category Archives: Finite Element Analysis

Daily Download 5: Frame Analysis

Posted on 21/09/2012 by dougaj4

Leading on from yesterday’s continuous beam functions, today’s download covers four frame analysis spreadsheets, with increasing levels of complexity.  For those interested in the workings of the program I recommend working through each spreadsheet, but for practical applications the final … Continue reading →

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Frame4 – with intermediate beam results

Posted on 11/09/2012 by dougaj4

Back in March 2010, in response to this post with an update of the Frame4 spreadsheet: https://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/frame4-xls-update2/ jscott (and later mettrox) asked if I had thought about adding output of the member forces at intervals along the member length, to which the response … Continue reading →

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The Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore – Stress Analysis 2

Posted on 13/08/2012 by dougaj4

Following on from the previous post I have uploaded the Strand7 data and results files and an animation of the stresses as the construction proceeds.  Strand7 users can just download the files and load them into Strand7 (or those with a slow … Continue reading →

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The Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore – Stress Analysis 1

Posted on 11/08/2012 by dougaj4

It’s time to get back to the analysis of the stresses and strains in the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. Since the last installment I have purchased “Brunelleschi’s Cupola” by Giovanni and Michele Fanelli, which is … Continue reading →

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The Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore – Dimensions

Posted on 30/06/2012 by dougaj4

This post is a continuation from The Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence Different sources give a wide variety of different dimensions for the dome, but there seems to be reasonable agreement that the “across flats” diameter of the … Continue reading →

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