Category Archives: Newton

IP.xls updated

Posted on 16/02/2009 by dougaj4

The spreadsheet IP.xls has been updated (previous post) with the addition of a function to find the minimum perpendicular distance from a point (or series of points) to a polyline: Pdist =PDist(Line,Points) Line is a range with at least two rows containing … Continue reading →

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Frame Analysis with Excel – 4, 2D frame analysis

Posted on 15/02/2009 by dougaj4

Continuing from: Frame Analysis with Excel – 3, Continuous beam or frame Download Frame1.zip – the download file includes complete open source code. The continuous beam spreadsheet presented in the previous post has been modified to deal with 2D frames where any … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Charles

Posted on 12/02/2009 by dougaj4

12th February 2009 is the 200th Anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. Read all about it here

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Frame Analysis with Excel – 3, Continuous beam or frame

Posted on 10/02/2009 by dougaj4

Continuing from Frame Analysis with Excel 2 – Single inclined beam Download Beam3.zip – the download file includes complete open source code. The spreadsheet for a single inclined beam presented in the previous post has been modified to deal with up … Continue reading →

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Frame Analysis with Excel 2 – Single inclined beam

Posted on 04/02/2009 by dougaj4

This post continues from – Frame Analysis with Excel 1 – Single beam Download Beam2.zip The stiffness matrix shown in the previous post was for a single beam with loads applied either perpendicular to the beam, or along the longitudinal beam axis, … Continue reading →

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