Category Archives: Newton

3D Frame with zero stiffness hinges

The previous version of 3DFrame allowed for spring releases at beam ends, but if the release stiffness was entered as zero it was treated as a rigid connection for that freedom.  Effectively zero stiffness releases could be modelled by entering … Continue reading

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Rubick’s Cube Solves Itself

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Numerical Integration; Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v. 4.42

Back to Newton and Excel. I recently received a new update to the Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet from Graeme Dennes, which may be downloaded from: Tanh_Sinh Quadrature. From the Readme: The Tanh-Sinh quadrature workbook has been enhanced as follows: The Tanh-Sinh … Continue reading

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Sydney Opera House: the designs that didn’t make it

From the Guardian: In 1956, the New South Wales premier Joseph Cahill announced a competition – open to anyone – to design a national opera house at Bennelong Point in Sydney. There were more than 200 entries and the eventual … Continue reading

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Multiple Integration with Scipy

Scipy has 3 functions for multiple numerical integration in the scipy.integrate module: dblquad: Compute a double integral. tplquad: Compute a triple integral’ nquad: Integration over multiple variables. I have written six functions to call these functions from Excel, via Pyxll: Each … Continue reading

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