Tag Archives: Excel

LatPilePY 1.02

Following some discussion at Eng-Tips and elsewhere I have updated the LatPilePY spreadsheet, previously presented at Lateral pile analysis with PY curves …  This spreadsheet provides User Defined Functions (UDFs) to carry out the analysis of vertical piles under lateral loading, … Continue reading

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Comparing floating point numbers

Some of the issues raised in this post: https://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/when-does-35-not-equal-35/ arose when writing the functions for the previous post on combining arrays.  In particular, when values from the two arrays are “equal” the function should create one entry in the combined … Continue reading

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Combining arrays

Part of the Macaulay spreasheet presented in recent posts required the formation of a list of points along a beam where the functions needed to be evaluated.  These are: The support points, the changes of cross section, and the output … Continue reading

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Continuous Beams with Shear Deflections

The Macaulay Spreadsheet has now been modified to optionally include shear deflections, as well as a new option to output support reactions, and fixes to minor bugs. The revised spreadsheet (including full open source code) can be downloaded from: Macaulay.zip … Continue reading

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When does 35 not equal 35?

… and when does 35 – 35 not equal zero? In the first case the answer is when one “35” is on an Excel spreadsheet and the other 35 is in VBA.  The question arose from the ongoing continuous beam … Continue reading

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