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The Structural Engineer, Volume 54, Issue 8, 1976
The present statutory control of building and engineering works in the United Kingdom varies greatly in terms of quality and efficiency. There are separate systems, for England and Wales, for Scotland, for Northern Ireland, and for the inner London area. The system proposed in this report will provide an integrated control structure independent of central or local government and therefore more readily adaptable to suit future changing needs.
This technical note deals with properties of chains of equilateral spherical triangles constructed on the surface of a sphere. The properties discussed in the paper seem not to have been noticed by any one before. The division of a sphere into icosihedral and tetrahedral divisions are shown to be only particular cases of these chains of equilateral spherical triangles. Structural engineers can make use of these properties to divide spherical and cylindrical surfaces into reasonably small areas with identical arcs (or chords) and hence construct braced domes and vaults with identical members. K.S. Rangasami and S.M.R. Kaburu
COUNCIL l976/77 Brief biographical notes of the recently elected Honorary Officers, London and Country Fellows and Members who will be serving on the Council for 1976/77 appear on page 284.