Category Archives: Newton

Numerical integration with on-sheet calculations

Following a comment here I have prepared a spreadsheet that works through the Tanh-Sinh Quadrature process with on-sheet calculations.  For that purpose Graeme Dennes has provided a simplified version of the code: QUAD_RODRIGUEZ_TANH_SINH for finite intervals. Translated from HP RPN … Continue reading

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Building dances to an earthquake’s beat

Adam Pascale from the Seismology Research Centre recently shared this animation (click on controls bottom right for High Quality and Full Screen views): … it’s from a building in the Philippines about 130km (hypocentral distance) from a magnitude 6.1 earthquake … Continue reading

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Lennox Bridge

Last December I joined Bill Harvey on a visit to Lennox Bridge west of Sydney.  Bill has now documented the visit in his Bridge of the Month site, including history, comments on the structural form, and a dynamic 3D model … Continue reading

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The Concrete Institute of Australia – Golden Jubilee

The Concrete Institute of Australia will celebrate 50 years in 2020. The Institute was originally formed when members of the Australia Prestressed Concrete Group proposed a change in 1968 where it was resolved to adopt the name Concrete Institute of … Continue reading

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Dancing Pendulums Revisited

I have previously posted on Dynamically Defined Dancing Pendulums, using the Strand7 FEA program to generate the motion of a series of pendulums of varying length.  I have now updated that video using the latest Beta version of the program (Rel … Continue reading

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