Tag Archives: Moving load analysis

Continuous beam animations with VBA and Python

Posted on 20/12/2025 by dougaj4

Following a lengthy discussion at Eng-Tips I have developed several functions to generate animations of the effects of applied moving loads. The Python code and examples have been added to the py_ConBeamU.zip file which can be downloaded from: py_ConBeamU.zip Starting … Continue reading →

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py_Conbeam – 3

Posted on 04/08/2024 by dougaj4

Continuing from the previous post, we will move on to the py_Conbeam and py_MovLoad functions, that combine with the previous functions to analyse continuous beams with any number of spans and section types, under static or moving loads. As before, there … Continue reading →

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