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Rice, P R
The Structural Engineer, Volume 69, Issue 23, 1991
There is little doubt that, even if Britain were not to become far more closely integrated into the European system of the Single Internal Market, engineering education would still need to change radically. Professor P.B. Morice
Mr P. Evans (Ove Arup & Partners) As noted in my colleagues’ paper, the site investigations included a sophisticated programme of pile tests to confirm the feasibility of forming enlarged footings to augered piles in the Woolwich and Reading Beds’. However, we did not quite start out in that way.
Mr J. A. Baird (F) (Swedish Finnish Timber Council) Some years ago when I was involved with the design of lattice tubular steel portals with the Taylor Woodrow Group, I evolved a method of considering the U-frame effect of two portals connected by steel purlins at regular intervals. The effect was small but usually enough to limit the number of knee braces required to the bottom chord when in compression.