The Calculation of the Section Modulus of Symmetrically Plated Girders

The subject of this paper is the strength of rectangular slabs, but it is limited to such slabs as have an appreciable thickness coinpared with the span, and more particularly it is limited to slabs of reinforced concrete only. A. Ingerslev

This number of the Journal marks a new era in the history of the Institution. First of all, it bears for the first time the new title of the Institution; and secondly the size, and, it is intended, the matter included, are both enlarged.

The following article is the outcome of an argument in which the writer contended, (and subsequentlv proved by experiment) that, with less than half-an-hour’s explanation, he could get boys of fourteen to draw, as quickly as experts, bending moment diagrams for beams subject to moving to centrated loads. An engineer’s time should be too valuable for such work, which should come within the province of the ofice boy. W.G. Sheppard