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The Structural Engineer, Volume 48, Issue 5, 1970

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The Structural Engineer, Volume 48, Issue 5, 1970

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The article describes how simple models, made from balsa wood, paper and cotton, are being used to give students an understanding of the way in which from affects structural behaviour.

B.O. Hilson

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