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The Structural Engineer, Volume 64, Issue 1, 1986
Conspectus The fifth report of the Standing Committee, issued in June 1982*, referred to the decision made by the Presidents of the Institutions of Civil, Municipal and Structural Engineers to reconstitute the committee under a new Chairman, following the retirement of Lord Penney, who had been the committee’s Chairman for 6 years. Sir Derman Christopherson was subsequently appointed Chairman, and the new committee started its work in November 1983.
The term ‘model’ was formerly used mainly to denote physical scale representations of objects. Our usage of this term in engineering is widening. For example, we talk more of ‘analytical modelling’ rather than of ‘structural analysis’ because we do have a much wider choice of models than in the pre-computer era. To some extent it is the development in the use of computers that has caused us to think more deeply in terms of models. In order to program a design process, a model of the process is needed. Professor I.A. MacLeod
Mr D. A. Langdown (F) (Costain Construction Ltd.): First, I would congratulate the authors on their paper which describes a job with a number of very interesting features, particularly in relation to ground works.