Category Archives: Strand7

Publications

Posted on 23/01/2022 by dougaj4

I have recently updated my list of publications. Click on the “view full-size” icon in the bottom right corner for a full screen view, or click any link to download.

Posted in Concrete, Geotechnical Engineering, Newton, Strand7 | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

SectionProperties update

Posted on 16/01/2022 by dougaj4

In late 2017 I posted Section Properties with MeshPY, including torsion and warping which looked at an Excel front end for Robbie van Leeuwen’s SectionProperties program, which provides facilities for calculation of section properties of complex shapes, including torsion and warping constants. … Continue reading →

Posted in Charts, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Link to Python, Newton, Numerical integration, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL, Strand7 | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Contour plots with Excel and Matplotlib – 2 

Posted on 30/12/2021 by dougaj4

The procedures discussed in the previous post required the contour data to be arranged on a regular rectangular grid, with the data points listed in a 2D array. As far as I know there is no built in alternative in … Continue reading →

Posted in Arrays, Charts, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Link to Python, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL, Strand7, UDFs | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Contour plots with Excel and Matplotlib

Posted on 28/12/2021 by dougaj4

Contour plots are widely used for a great variety of purposes, but facilities for producing them in Excel are very limited, and those that are provided are very well hidden. In this post I will look at some simple examples … Continue reading →

Posted in Arrays, Charts, Charts, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Link to Python, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL, Strand7, UDFs | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

ConbeamU update

Posted on 28/09/2021 by dougaj4

I recently discovered that the continuous beam function from the ConbeamU spreadsheet was giving incorrect results for cantilevers at the left hand end, if the cantilever had more than one segment and no point loads. The corrected version (Rel 4.16) … Continue reading →

Posted in Beam Bending, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Frame Analysis, Newton, Strand7, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments