What-when-how …

Posted on 19/05/2016 by dougaj4

… is a web site offering free tutorials on a wide range of subjects, including finite element analysis and VBA.

The basics of finite element analysis are covered by links from:

Computational Modelling (Finite Element Method)

with more advanced material covered at:

FEM for Plates and Shells (Finite Element Method) Part 1

FEM for 3D Solids (Finite Element Method) Part 1

Special Purpose Elements (Finite Element Method) Part 1

VBA starts at:

Getting Started with Excel Formulas and Functions

And for a full list of subjects see:

Topics

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If it keeps on straining …

Posted on 13/05/2016 by dougaj4

… concrete’s goin’ to break:

To find out what this has to do with predicting concrete deflections, book into the Concrete Institute seminar on “Finite Element Analysis of Concrete Structures”:

Finite Element Analysis of Concrete Structures – Software and Practice

When:
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
4:45 PM – 8:00 PM

Where:
Ryde-Eastwood Leagues Club
117 Ryedale Road , West Ryde NSW 2114

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Beetles …

Posted on 01/05/2016 by dougaj4

… from the collections of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, portraits by Levon Biss:

Beetles1
Beetles2 beetles3 Beetles4 Beetles5

More at:

Microsculpture

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xlwSciPy 1.7

Posted on 17/04/2016 by dougaj4

Following recent posts on xlwings 0.7.1, dictionaries, and optional arguments and xlwings – dataframes and statistics, I have added the associated functions and examples to the xlwSciPy spreadsheet, and also updated it to xlwings 0.71.

The new spreadsheet can be downloaded from:

xlScipy-xlw.zip

including full open source code.

The spreadsheet requires Python, including xlwings, Numpy, Scipy and Pandas (all of which are free, and included in the Anaconda package).

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Jack Bruce on double bass

Posted on 13/04/2016 by dougaj4

Read all about it: Things We Like

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