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The Structural Engineer, Volume 52, Issue 12, 1974
Mr. Johnson: A project such as a float line involves all engineering disciplines with several special branches of these technologies in connection with such items as furnace, float process, etc. Pilkington Brothers Limited have a central engineering department which is responsible on a worldwide basis for the construction and for major repairs of the glass plants of the Group. The resources of this department are augmented from 0utsid.e for such people as consulting engineers, architects, contractors-including specialist contractors for the chimney, structural steelwork, etc.
The assumption made by the authors that the bolt load produces a uniformly distributed pressure on the outer surface of the plate isuspect, to say the least, and it would have been useful to test this assumption by an analysis of the internal stresses in the bolt head. A study I have made shows that the yield strength of reinforcing steel (i.e. general grade) in Kenya has a coefficient of variation of 17 per cent. Given that this applies also to structural steel, which is fairly certain, could the authors indicate the effect that this would have on their findings? They appear to presume that steel is an exact product. P.A. Campbell