Discussion. Technical Advances in Welding

When the Secretary wrote to ask if I would open a discussion on “Technical advances in welding,” I rang him up quickly to say that I couldn’t do that because there were no technical advances in welding. But when he said that the meeting had already been advertised in the Journal, I started to cudgel my brain to see if there were any notable advances. A. Ramsay Moon

IT is nearly four years since the author first read in Manchester a paper entitled "Time and its effect in relation to Structures" (published Structural Engineer, June, 1939). The major portion of this period has been blighted by the war which has brought about both materially and physically more destruction than construction, more improvised experimentation than consideration and more structural improvisation than the correlated product of calculation. F.S. Snow

This month's letters cover legislation for design checks, embodied carbon of modular construction approaches, and assessment of masonry buildings for earthquake resilience in New Zealand.