The Influence of Reinforcement Detailing on the Strength of Concrete Structures

The paper presents a plastic method of design for plate girder webs which allows for the influence of flange rigidity upon the post buckled behaviour of webs. The design procedure which is based on a study of the behaviour of 40 plate girders tested by the authors, has been checked against other experimental data available in the technical press. Because the present design procedure allows for the influence of flange stiffness upon the post buckled behaviour of shear webs it is more accurate than existing design methods. K.C. Rockey and M. Skaloud

The ‘Stability’ report has taken some time to develop but the timing of its appearance has coincided with a period of very active re-thinking of our basic structural philosophy. In particular, it seems to form the third member of a trilogy which began with the Aims of Structural Design and has coincided with the issue of recommendations on Future Building Regulations.

This paper records an investigation info the structural behaviour of a reservoir wall, supported by buttresses curtailed at a low level. A finite difference analysis, supplemented by tests on perspex models, leads to a proposal for an economical design form, and design tables are presented for this. A.A. Wood and F.A.N. Al-Shawi