Author: Brown, P A;Davies, V J;Lewis, L H
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Brown, P A;Davies, V J;Lewis, L H
The Structural Engineer, Volume 49, Issue 9, 1971
Mr. W. G. N. Geddes, BSc, CEng, FIStructE, FICE, FIWE, FIES, has the distinction of being the first Scot to serve as President of the Institution while actually domiciled in Scotland. Taking ofice on 7 October next, Mr. Geddes will deliver his Presidential Address at an Ordinary Meeting at 6 pm that evening at 11 Upper Belgrave Street, London.
The paper describes a simplified method of analysing cylindrical shells with a view to reducing numerical work to a minimum by using a set of design tables and solving only four boundary constants at a time.
The following Institution report was recently approved by the Council and has been forwarded to the Department of the Environment as a basis for further discussions.