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The Structural Engineer, Volume 38, Issue 6, 1960
THE PRESIDENT proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Mason, first for having taken the trouble to write his paper in time for it to be published in THE STRUCTURAL ENGINEER so that members could read it before coming to the meeting, and secondly, for his clear exposition of certain of its salient points.
The paper describes a method of analysis for beam and slab (or plate) systems. The theoretical analysis in its general form may be used to solve various loading conditions, but the computational work tends to be excessive. For the particular case of a uniform load over the whole area of the stiffened slab, however, the results of the analysis may be expressed as a set of coefficients the values of which may be represented graphically. For uniform loading, therefore, the method of analysis is suitable for design purposes. M. Holmes
A general elastic moment distribution method is presented, capable of application to all types of rigid space frames. The method employs matrices of stiffness and 'carry-over' terms, and the procedure is equivalent to the well known Hardy Cross process of analysis. The method is illustrated by typical problems. B. Rawlings