Category Archives: Finite Element Analysis

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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Strand7 API GetNode functions

Posted on 19/02/2012 by dougaj4

As promised in this post, I have written and documented Excel User Defined Functions (UDFs) to interface with all the Strand7 API functions that return node attributes or results.  These 22 functions allow node attributes and results to be read directly … Continue reading →

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VBA code generation on the spreadsheet

Posted on 07/02/2012 by dougaj4

A previous post looked at using VBA to generate more VBA code.  This post looks at automatic code generation on the spreadsheet, which may be transferred into the a VBA project using the techniques discussed in the earlier post, or simply … Continue reading →

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