Tag Archives: Strand7

Dancing Pendulums

Posted on 25/05/2011 by dougaj4

This animation was produced in response to a video of real pendulums performing similar tricks: Not having an animation program I thought I’d use the finite element program Strand7.  Modelling the pendulums was easy, just 15 beam elements with a … Continue reading →

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Working with FEM data and using the dictionary object

Posted on 26/09/2010 by dougaj4

This post features an Excel User Defined Function (UDF) to count the number of different element types (beams, plates, bricks and links) and the number of node restraints at each end of listed beams from a finite element model.  The … Continue reading →

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Route Map …

Posted on 29/08/2010 by dougaj4

… so we know where we are going. I’ll be starting several, to some extent interlinked, new themes in this blog over the coming weeks.  Firstly VBA Classes.  Regular readers may have noticed that my VBA code tends to be … Continue reading →

Posted in AlgLib, Concrete, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Frame Analysis, Link to dll, Maths, Newton, VBA | Tagged , , , , , | 4 Comments

New Release of Strand7

Posted on 07/12/2009 by dougaj4

The long awaited new release of Strand7 (R 2.4.1) appeared today.  Click below for more details:

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