The most widely used algorithm for the Shock Response Spectrum (SRS) calculation for base excitation is the ramp invariant digital recursive filtering relationship given in: David O. Smallwood, An Improved Recursive Formula for Calculating Shock Response Spectra, Shock and Vibration Bulletin, No. 51, May 1981.… Read more
It appears GotoBLAS2 has been deprecated (i.e. orphaned). The new standard is OpenBLAS. OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version. OpenBLAS is an open source project supported by Lab of Parallel Software and Computational Science, Institute of Software Chinese Academy… Read more
I have several weaknesses of my own. I often have fatigue. And I have a borderline case of Asperger syndrome. But the purpose of this message is not to dwell on my own condition. Rather it is to present scriptural insights. * * * The… Read more
Please help me send Bibles to poor people throughout the world: Support Link * * * As Christians, we have a particular challenge. There is a saying, “Be ye in the world, but not of the world.” This quote does not actually appear in scripture,… Read more
Here are some more thoughts on enduring trials and tribulation . . . . Suffering is universal; how we react to suffering is individual. Suffering can take us one of two ways. It can be a strengthening and purifying experience combined with faith, or… Read more
I have been studying Biblical Hebrew… The Hebrew name for Jesus is: Yeshua, which means “He who saves.” Matthew 1 [19] Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.… Read more
Modal Transient Analysis of a System Subjected to an Applied Force via a Ramp Invariant Digital Recursive Filtering Relationship: force_ramp_invariant.pdf Reference Papers: Smallwood Irvine General Coordinate Irvine Impulse Response Function 1 Irvine Impulse Response Function 2 Irvine SRS * * * * * * * * * *… Read more
Job asked “If a man die, shall he live again?” (Job 14:14) He later answered his own question: For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this… Read more
The world is in a state of turmoil. There are wars and rumors of wars. There is the threat of economic collapse. * * * Recall the story in Matthew 16:21-34 and Mark 6:45-51. Jesus had finished feeding more than 5000 people. He then sent… Read more
The poet Lon Woodrum wrote: I met a stranger in the night, Whose lamp had ceased to shine; I paused and let him light His lamp from mine. A tempest sprang up later on, And shook the world about, And when the wind was gone,… Read more