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Faber, Oscar
The Structural Engineer, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1934
MR. EWART S. AKDREU’S, B.Sc., M.1nst.C.E.. (Vice- President), proposing a very hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Helsby for his interesting paper, said he had read a number of papers on the subject of welding, but in this paper Mr. Helsby struck entirely new ground, and had given much interesting and helpful information. Presumably he had not considered it within the scope of the paper to state the relative costs of a riveted and a welded structure, but no doubt many members of the Institution would be very interested to have some information on that matter.
This is Fred May’s impression of some of the members and guests present at the Annual Dinner of the Institution, which was held at the Dorchester Hotel, London, W., on the 23rd March. The sketch is reproduced by courtesy of “The Architects’ Journal.”
It has been realised for a number of years that the present form of strength test included in the British Standard Specification for Portland cement has a very limited relation to the strength properties required from the cement in practice. Although the test is of value in so far as it may provide an assurance that the cement, when used with sound aggregates, will produce mortars and concretes of adequate strength for many purposes, it does not place the various marketed cements in an order of strength which can be related in any known way to the strength of products made from the cement. W.H. Glanville