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More Ligurian Arches
We will complete the stay in Camoglia with another collection of arch structures (great and small, old and new) from the district: The recent photo of the Recco Rail Viaduct is from the Structurae Database. The photo from the time … Continue reading
Posted in Arch structures, Newton
Tagged Arch structures, Liguria, Montallegro, Rapallo, Recco rail viaduct, San Fruttuoso
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They all laughed at Christopher Columbus …
…When he said the World was round (or rather, they didn’t). Christopher Columbus was born in the town of Genova, in what is now North-West Italy. The adjacent towns are happy to share the credit: It is (or at least … Continue reading
Ligurian Arches
We have looked previously at Robert Hooke’s statement on the mathematical analysis of arches: abcccddeeeeefggiiiiiiiillmmmmnnnnnooprrsssttttttuuuuuuuvx but of course people had been constructing large arch structures for many hundreds of years before Hooke made his enigmatic statement, and the masters, if … Continue reading
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Tagged arches, Camogli, Cinque Terre, Liguria, Robert Hooke
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Galileo and Pisa
Welcome to Galileo Excel Baccusi, which will be replacing Newton Excel Bach for the next four weeks, while I travel in Northern Italy. Arriving in Rome on Friday morning, we travelled to Camogli by mini-bus, stopping for a quick tour … Continue reading
Composite Beam Spreadsheet 3
The Composite Beam Analysis spreadsheet, previously discussed at: https://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/composite-beam-spreadsheet-2/ has now been updated with a VBA User Defined Function (UDF) in place of the previous macro that used the Excel Goal-Seek command. This has two main advantages: The UDF is much faster … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged Brents method, composite concrete beam, Excel, Prestressed concrete, Reinforced Concrete, UDF, VBA
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