Tag Archives: VBA

3D Frames, axes and stiffness matrices

Posted on 09/12/2016 by dougaj4

In the course of adding provision for spring end releases to the 3DFrame spreadsheet, I have also tidied up the code for generating the structure stiffness matrix, and added some documentation to the spreadsheet.  The revised spreadsheet (version 2.02) can … Continue reading →

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Nearest Lookup Function

Posted on 21/10/2016 by dougaj4

The Excel Lookup functions (including VLookup, HLookup and Match) all allow for an “exact” or “closest” match on numerical data, but the closest option has a number of problems: The data must be sorted For VLookup and HLookup the data … Continue reading →

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Non-linear frame analysis; moment curvature and self-weight

Posted on 10/10/2016 by dougaj4

The Python/Fortran/Excel frame analysis program (previous version here) now has several new features added to the 2D-solver routines: The beam bending behaviour may now be specified with moment-curvature tables, rather than the linear-plastic behaviour required in the previous version. Beam … Continue reading →

Posted in Arch structures, Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Fortran, Frame Analysis, Link to dll, Link to Python, NumPy and SciPy, Strand7, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

xlwSciPy 1.09 – update for xlwings 0.10 and Scipy 0.18.1

Posted on 02/10/2016 by dougaj4

The xlwSciPy spreadsheet (last presented here) has been updated for the latest version of xlwings and Scipy. The new spreadsheet can be downloaded from: xlScipy-xlw.zip including full open source code. The spreadsheet requires Python, including xlwings, Numpy, Scipy and Pandas … Continue reading →

Posted in Arrays, Curve fitting, Excel, Link to Python, Maths, NumPy and SciPy, Python Pandas, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

VBA routines for splitting and joining text

Posted on 25/09/2016 by dougaj4

As mentioned in the previous post, I have written two short VBA routines to aid the process of splitting a column of text strings into separate columns, using either a space or any other chosen character as the delimiter.  These … Continue reading →

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