Category Archives: Newton

Reducing Risk in Structural Concrete Design

Posted on 23/02/2015 by dougaj4

The Concrete Institute of Australia is running a series of full day seminars on Structural Concrete Design for Extreme Events in each of the mainland capitals: See:  Structural Concrete Design for Extreme Events for details of dates and locations in … Continue reading →

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Beams may kiss, but do not hug …

Posted on 09/02/2015 by dougaj4

… not full length anyway. This post was inspired by a now very long discussion at Eng-Tips on the apparently simple question of what happens when you place one short beam on top of a longer one, and apply a … Continue reading →

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Numerical Integration; Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v. 4.3

Posted on 29/12/2014 by dougaj4

A new version (4.3) of the numerical integration spreadsheet by Graeme Dennes is now available for download from Tanh_Sinh Quadrature. The Tanh-Sinh Quadrature Version 4.3 workbook now provides a feature for the integration of integrands contained in independent (external) UDFs. … Continue reading →

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Numpy and Scipy for Excel

Posted on 14/12/2014 by dougaj4

The Python Numpy and Scipy libraries contain a huge number of maths and science related functions.  Most of these are not directly available from Excel, but using the free ExcelPython package it is fairly easy to make the link, vastly increasing … Continue reading →

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The Gladesville Bridge is 50

Posted on 15/11/2014 by dougaj4

The Gladesville Bridge in Sydney is much less well known than the steel arch bridge just up-river, but in many ways the methods used in its design and construction were more innovative, and at the time of its completion it … Continue reading →

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