Tag Archives: VBA

Continuous Beams with Specified Deflections

Posted on 26/02/2015 by dougaj4

A few weeks ago there was some discussion in a previous continuous beam post about how to analyse a continuous beam with specified deflections at the supports.  In this post I will look at three different ways of doing this … Continue reading →

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Slicing Arrays with VBA

Posted on 20/02/2015 by dougaj4

A recent comment asked about the most efficient way to write part of an array to the spreadsheet from VBA. This post looks at three alternative methods which have advantages in different circumstances (thanks to Lori Miller for reminding me … Continue reading →

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Beams may kiss, but do not hug …

Posted on 09/02/2015 by dougaj4

… not full length anyway. This post was inspired by a now very long discussion at Eng-Tips on the apparently simple question of what happens when you place one short beam on top of a longer one, and apply a … Continue reading →

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Smart Indenter and Excel 2013

Posted on 27/01/2015 by dougaj4

I have recently installed Office 365 on a new computer running Windows 8.1 (actually the third one in just over a month, but that’s another story).  Office 2013 has several annoying features, but for me the most annoying was that … Continue reading →

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Numerical Integration; Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v. 4.3

Posted on 29/12/2014 by dougaj4

A new version (4.3) of the numerical integration spreadsheet by Graeme Dennes is now available for download from Tanh_Sinh Quadrature. The Tanh-Sinh Quadrature Version 4.3 workbook now provides a feature for the integration of integrands contained in independent (external) UDFs. … Continue reading →

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