High Aluminia Cement Concrete - an Assessment from Laboratory and Field Studies

Earthquake forces Mr R. J. Pugh seems to reach the same conclusions as Mr R. Farnborough (October 1980) on this subject. He writes: With reference to the letter (June 1980) of Messrs Coverman and Clarke on the subject of earthquake loadings I think that many engineers will agree with Verulam's comment at the end of the letter - namely, that other countries have their own requirements. Verulam

Friarton Bridge over the River Tay at Perth is a multispan bridge comprising two independent welded steel box girders, each with a composite lightweight concrete deck slab. The bridge is notable for being one of the first in the United Kingdom to use structural lightweight concrete in its construction, which made composite construction economic for the river span; also for being the first major structure to be designed to the ‘Interim Design and Workmanship Rules’ (successor to the ‘Merrison’ Rules). O.A. Kerensky, J. Robinson and B.L. Smith

You have done me the great honour of electing me as your President-I thank the members of the Institution and undertake to do my best to justify your confidence. Judging from their remarks on taking office, my own sense of humility and feeling of some inadequacy has been common in my predecessors, and it is this realisation, together with my personal experience of the help and friendship that I have received within the Institution, that emboldens me to step into the Presidency with a pleasurable anticipation of its challenges and opportunities. Professor M.R. Horne