gt4016b@prism.gatech.EDU (Craig Champlin) (10/19/90)
I am interested in locating a program to do finite difference stress analysis for beams given beam length and important node locations. A one dimensional case is all I need. A nice feature would be recursive error checking. I could adapt something which handles finite difference for heat transfer. I would try this myself, but I am not yet very adept at programming this thing. The RP way of doing things often throws me for a loop. Also, is it me or does doing algebra on this thing seem more trouble than even doing it on paper? One nice thing, I did solve a set of thirteen equasions today. It took only about ten seconds! I was so amazed that I did it twice to be sure it was actually doing somthing. Is there an upper limit to the number of equasions it can solve? BTW I found the solution by just entering my coefficient and constant matricies and using the division feature. Thanks. -- --Craig Champlin "The sun was a member of their dance and the trees lent shadows to the edges of the pond shimmering like water in a saucer tipped." -William Pitt Root