Tag Archives: Excel

Composite Beam Spreadsheet 3

Posted on 08/05/2012 by dougaj4

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 →

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Using UDFs – Continuous Beam Example

Posted on 03/05/2012 by dougaj4

Recently (well a month ago) a comment was left at Continuous Beams with Shear Deflections asking for a tutorial on how to use the ConBeam User Defined Function (UDF).  In this post I will give detailed instructions for the ConBeam function, but similar … Continue reading →

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Spreadsheet Link – Abbott Aerospace Consultants

Posted on 29/04/2012 by dougaj4

Abbott Aerospace has a wide range of spreadsheets available for free download. Many are intended for specific aerospace design applications, but some are for general purpose engineering applications, such as calculation of section properties. A general purpose add-in of particular … Continue reading →

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Composite Beam Spreadsheet – 2

Posted on 27/04/2012 by dougaj4

The previous post on this topic presented a spreadsheet performing elastic analysis of composite reinforced or prestressed composite beams, available for download from: Composite Design Functions-GS.zip.  This post will look in more detail at how the spreadsheet works, and a preview … Continue reading →

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Modifying spreadsheet data with VBA – the quick way

Posted on 25/04/2012 by dougaj4

A question recently came up (here) asking how to speed up the process of scanning a large range of data on one sheet, and wherever a cell had a value of zero, deleting the data in the same cell address … Continue reading →

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