Tag Archives: UDFs

Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v. 5.03

Posted on November 22, 2021 by dougaj4

Following some recent comments Graeme Dennes has released the latest version the Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet with some corrections to the test function documentation. The new file is located (as before) at: Tanh-Sinh Quadrature For more information on the last major release … Continue reading →

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Using Matplotlib from Excel with pyxll

Posted on November 4, 2021 by dougaj4

The pyxll documentation has many examples of plotting in Excel using Matplotlib and other packages, but I find the multiple options confusing and hard to follow, so this post works through the examples in the Matplotlib Users Guide tutorial. The … Continue reading →

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Installing PyPardiso

Posted on October 24, 2021 by dougaj4

The PyPardiso package provides an interface to the Intel MKL Pardiso library to solve large sparse linear systems of equations. Trying to install this package with Conda raises the message: To search for alternate channels that may provide the conda package you’relooking … Continue reading →

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More on Numba

Posted on August 15, 2021 by dougaj4

Following my recent post Making Finite Element Analysis go faster … I have been having a closer look at the options in the Numba just-in-time compiler for improving the performance of Python code. The Numba docs include a series of short … Continue reading →

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Elastic Biaxial Bending

Posted on April 11, 2021 by dougaj4

Spreadsheets performing Ultimate Limit State analysis with biaxial moments have been presented previously, most recently here: Biaxial bending update I have now modified the Beam Design Functions spreadsheet to carry out a biaxial moment analysis with linear elastic material properties. … Continue reading →

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