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Blake, A V
The Structural Engineer, Volume 23, Issue 5, 1945
The Fourteenth Annual General Meeting of the Branch was held at the Ca'doro Restaurant, Glasgow, on the 9th April, 1945, at 5.45 p.m.
0NE of the many difficulties with which the designer of struts has to contend, lies in the fact that most of the accepted formulae are designed to enable the safe load for a given strut to be ascertained, but not to give directly the size of strut which will stand a given load. This means that the selection of strut sections is a process of trial and error, and a very tedious process at that, if,the maximum economy is required. G. Murray Boyd
An Ordinary Meeting of the Institution of Structural Engineers was held at 11, Upper Belgrave Street, London, S.W.l, on Thursday, December 14th, 1944, at 5.30 p.m., the President, Mr. Gower B.R. Pimm, M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Struct.E., in the Chair.