Category Archives: Newton

7 Year Report

Posted on 24/02/2015 by dougaj4

As in previous years, I have downloaded the statistics for this blog for the previous year, and pasted them into a worksheet. The link to each post is preserved in the spreadsheet, so it makes a convenient index to what … Continue reading →

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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 →

Posted in Excel, Link to Python, Maths, NumPy and SciPy, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , | 11 Comments