Category Archives: Numerical integration

Section Properties with MeshPY, including torsion and warping

Posted on 09/12/2017 by dougaj4

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 11/08/2017 by dougaj4

The Alglib library provides many valuable numerical analysis routines, but the VBA version is no longer actively maintained.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 14/02/2016 by dougaj4

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 06/02/2016 by dougaj4

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 01/02/2016 by dougaj4

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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