Reconstruction of Ryde Pier Head and Contingent Works

0N pages 355 to 363 in the August Number of The Structural Engineer was published a short article "On a new method for the practical use of Modern Pillar Formulae." The suggested method involved the use of two Tables of constants, Tables Nos. 1 and 2, which were given on pages 357 and 359, respectively. For the sake of brevity these Tables were calculated for ratios of l/g at intervals of 5 together with the differences to enable the intermediate values to be determined. W. Cyril Cocking

WELDED construction is rapidly increasing in popularity throughout the whole world. In Australia and New Zealand it has become a very important branch of Structural Engineering, and in the United States of America it is said to be the eighth industry in order of importance; Germany has a very comprehensive building code applied to welded construction and, in that country, Structural Engineers are building more and more by means of welding. In the writer's opinion, Italy has up to the present time, tackled the most spectscular structural efforts in Europe in so far as welded construction is concerned: buildings of 13 storeys are being erected in Italy and such buildings are about twice the height allowed by the London Building Authorities for buildings in London. America, however, can easily beat the Italian record with sky-scrapers of 18 and 19 storeys and each containing miles of welded joints. C. Helsby

IN the address which I have the honour to deliver to you this evening, I propose to bring to your notice some of the more salient points relating to the state of oscillation set up in railway bridges by the passage of locomotives or other moving loads. Professor C.E. Inglis