Reinforced Concrete Section Analysis – 6; Ultimate Limit State

The previous post in this series included Excel User Defined Functions using closed form solutions to find the ultimate bending and axial load capacity of reinforced or prestressed concrete sections of any complex shape defined by rectangular or horizontal layers.  The paper ultimate-moment-capacity1  provides the derivation of the solutions used in these functions.  An extract from the [...]

ELASTIC SOLUTIONS FOR SOIL AND ROCK MECHANICS

Found on the Web:
ELASTIC SOLUTIONS FOR SOIL AND ROCK MECHANICS
“Professor Harry Poulos, Emeritus Professor from the University of Sydney and a Senior Principal Consultant with Coffey & Partners, has graciously (and generously) agreed to allow USUCGER to post a PDF version of the seminal book Elastic Solutions for Soil and Rock Mechanics (co-authored with the [...]

ImageMagick – Update and add IrfanView link

The picture indexing spreadsheet presented in the previous post has been updated:

Comments can now be added adjacent to the file names, and these will be copied along with the Exif data
The routine to copy the exif data to the spreadsheet has been modified to speed things up.
Select a file name from the list or from [...]

ImageMagick and Excel

Back from my holidays, with a hard disk full of holiday snaps, and looking for a program to extract the image data saved on the camera, and add comments.  Not liking the offerings provided with the cameras, or any of the free programs I found, I have written my own, using ImageMagick.
ImageMagick is a command [...]

The Willoughby Choir in Austria

The wonderful Willoughby Symphony Choir give an impromptu performance of Motzart’s Ave Verum at the Dom Cathedral in Salzburg.  Use headphones or good external speakers to get the full effect!