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The Structural Engineer, Volume 15, Issue 10, 1937
THE CHAIRMAN (Dr. Oscar Faber, O.B.E., D.Sc., M.Inst.C.E., Past-President) drew attention to the fact that Mr. Mears was on the staff of Messrs. Rendel, Palmer & Tritton, who had been associated with the schemes relating to Waterloo Bridge. The bridge, he said, was probably of special interest by reason of the controversy with which it had been associated for so long a time, but which, happily, was at an end; thus, the matter was leaving the political and entering the engineering sphere, which meant that something would be done.
SIR,-In the issue of The Structural Engineer last August there appeared a discussion on Dr. Glanville’s paper “Strength Tests for Cement.”
T0 structural engineers, steel is perhaps the most fundamental material with which they have to deal: its strength, which term includes its remarkable properties of rigidity, and elasticity, makes it the building material best able to fulfil the many requirements of the profession. Not only is it the building material which will carry the greatest unit stresses, but its composition and capabilities are known definitely within narrow limits of accuracy. J. Gibson