Full-scale Tests on a Portal Frame Shed

CP 114 : The Structural Use of Reinforced Concrete in Buildings (1965 edition) The revision of the 1957 edition of CP 114 was first suggested to the Institution of Structural Engineers, the convening institution, by the British Standards Institution in November 1961. This request followed representations made to the Codes of Practice for Building Committee by the Reinforced Concrete Association and the Cement and Concrete Association. M.E. Habershon, W. Hunter Rose and O.A. Kerensky

The Ness Bridge carries route A9 as a 44-ft carriageway and two 9-ft footways across the River Ness in Inverness and it was designed to carry 45 units of HB Ministry of Transport loading. The bridge has three spans giving a total length of 253 ft and the centre span of 120 ft has a 60-ft suspended span between cantilevers. A.C. Allen

The paper deals with the approximate analysis of elastic columns and beam-columns by the conjugate beam method (CBM). It is shown that in many cases the method yields results very quickly and with a good degree of accuracy. Aron Zaslavsky