Issue 6

The Annual Dinner of the Institution of Structural Engineers was held at the Dorchester Hotel, London, W., on March 28th 1951. The President, Mr. J. E. Swindlehurst O.B.E.. M.A., M.I C.E., was in the Chair.

The modern trend of structural development is to reduce weight, and simultaneously to increase structural efficiency. A powerful means for realising these aims is to be found in the use of sections of thin walled proportions. Such sections, on account of their lightness, together with outlines chosen for maximum stiffness, give a high load-carrying capacity to structural weight ratio. W. Shearer Smith