Category Archives: Numerical integration

Using Section Properties- Group

Posted on June 24, 2018 by

Following a recent comment I have updated the documentation for finding the section properties of groups of shapes in the Section-Properties-Group spreadsheet.  The revised file can be downloaded from: Section Properties07-Group.zip The screenshots below illustrate use of the Group function to … Continue reading →

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xlwSciPy update for Python 3

Posted on April 9, 2018 by

The xlwSciPy spreadsheet allows a wide variety of the science and maths functions in the Python Numpy and Scipy libraries to be called directly from Excel.  The spreadsheet has now been updated for use with Python 3.  The spreadsheet and … Continue reading →

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Section Properties with MeshPY, including torsion and warping

Posted on December 9, 2017 by

I recently discovered robbie van leeuwen’s structural engineering blog, which has an open-source set of Python routines for calculation of section properties, including torsion and warping constants.  The program uses the MeshPY Library for generating the finite element meshes required … Continue reading →

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Excel to Alglib via xlwings

Posted on August 11, 2017 by

The Alglib library provides many valuable numerical analysis routines, but the VBA version is no longer actively maintained.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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Use Matplotlib from Excel with xlwings

Posted on February 14, 2016 by

Xlwings is another free and open source package allowing communication between Excel and Python.  It now incorporates ExcelPython, and is included in the Anaconda Python package, so will support my ExcelPython based spreadsheets after installation of xlwings using: conda install … Continue reading →

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Tanh-Sinh Quadrature via F2PY – Part 3

Posted on February 6, 2016 by

For the last of the current series on combining Fortran, Python and Excel with F2PY and ExcelPython I have updated the xlSciPy spreadsheet to include two other variants of the Tanh-Sinh function: Quad_TSi integrates a non-periodic function over a semi-infinite … Continue reading →

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Tanh-Sinh Quadrature via F2PY – Part 2

Posted on February 1, 2016 by

Lets look at some details of the coding. The original code (available here) includes routines “intdeini” to generate an array of points and weights of the quadrature formula, and “intde” to carry out the integration of any supplied function “f”. … Continue reading →

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