Correspondence Creep of Concrete Under Load

MAJOR DU PLAT TAYLOR (President., British Section, Sociee des Ingenieurs Civils de France), before proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Gueritte, said that it was a great pleasure to the members of the British Section to come and join in the meeting of the Institution, and he hoped this system of exchange might long continue. It was a great pleasure to him also to propose a vote of thanks to his old friend, Mr. Gueritte, for a very interesting paper, on which he would like to make one or two remarks.

In all the structures with which it is proposed to deal it is assumed that the displacements caused by the application of loads are so small that in calculating the forces in the various parts of the structure its initial form may be assumed. In most structures this may be done without appreciable error and, as a consequence, we may express any static function H, such as a reaction R, a force S, a bending moment M, a shearing force Q, deflexion... H.A. Whitaker

Although articles published in The Structural Engineer normally deal with large scale engineering, it is thought that a brief account of certain R.C.C. work carried out during recent operations on the North West Frontier of India, may be of interest its comparative insignificance being perhaps somewhat atoned for by the fact that difficulties inherent in active service conditions give even small engineering tasks a distinctive character. J.W. Hay