Author: T. Ji and A. J. Bell (School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, The University of Manchester, UK)
28 August 2014
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T. Ji and A. J. Bell (School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, The University of Manchester, UK)
The Structural Engineer, Volume 92, Issue 9, 2014, Page(s) 5
Letters this month include discussion on: Designing columns for fire resistance; the pioneer of portal frames; Raising the CM exam pass mark and SER Ltd.
Alasdair Beal imparts some extra information relating to the paper by Kollar, Csuka and Ther, published in the July 2014 issue of The Structural Engineer.
John Carpenter suggests that in the UK, the HSE and professional institutions could do more to help expedite the release of post-incident information — enabling engineers to learn from past mistakes for the benefit of the public.