Tag Archives: SciPy

Scipy functions with Excel and pyxll

Posted on 10/12/2023 by dougaj4

Over the years, I have posted a large number of user defined functions (UDF’s) allowing Python Scipy functions (and related libraries) to be accessed from Excel. These have now been consolidated in a uniform format, using the pyxll add-in and … Continue reading →

Posted in Arrays, Excel, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, Numerical integration, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL, UDFs | Tagged , , , , , | 7 Comments

3DFrame-py

Posted on 05/07/2023 by dougaj4

My 3DFrame spreadsheet has now been converted to Python code and can be downloaded from: 3DFrame-py.zip The frame analysis uses the Scipy linear algebra functions called from pyLinalgfuncs3, which must be available on the Python path: pyLinAlgfuncs3.zip The 3DFrame-py download … Continue reading →

Posted in Arrays, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Frame Analysis, Link to Python, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL, Strand7, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

LU Decomposition with Python and Scipy

Posted on 26/05/2023 by dougaj4

This post was prompted by a question at the Eng-Tips forum: LU Decomposition which asked why Mathcad was generating LU matrices different to those calculated from the basic theory. The short answer was that there is more than one way … Continue reading →

Posted in Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL, UDFs | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

More on combined shear and bending design to AS 3600

Posted on 15/12/2022 by dougaj4

Further to the last post on this subject I have been looking at procedures to speed up design for shear to AS 3600 when the “refined” analysis procedure is used. The issues that need to be addressed are: I have … Continue reading →

Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Link to Python, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL, UDFs | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Installing Python and pyxll from scratch

Posted on 26/09/2022 by dougaj4

Updated 28th September 2022. Matplotlib latest version OK. I recently installed Python and pyxll (plus the required additional libraries) on a new computer, which raised a few problems with incompatible versions, so here is a summary of what worked (as … Continue reading →

Posted in Animation, Arrays, Charts, Coordinate Geometry, Differential Equations, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, Numerical integration, NumPy and SciPy, Python Pandas, PyXLL, UDFs | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments