In 1979 I was approached by a group sponsored through a MSC project, under what was then the Youth Opportunities Programme, to advise on the design of a timber barn. D.M. Brohn
The paper reviews rerent research developments on elastic flexural-torsional buckling of monosymmetric I-beams and of doubly symmetric and monosymmetric beam-columns/tie-beams. The developments include the introduction of a new set of non-dimensional parameters, which illuminates the buckling behaviour of these types of member and facilitates the derivation of simple design formulae for predicting the buckling capacities. More importantly, the paper extends the recent work to monosymmetric beam-columns/tie-beams under non-uniform moment load cases, including double curvature bending. Approximate out-of-plane buckling formulae describing the stability criteria for such members under common inplane loading conditions are derived. S. Kitipornchai and C.M. Wang
George had noticed, over the last 5 to 10 years, an increasing tendency for his clients, and architects and quantity surveyors, to ask him to arrange various contracts on their behalf. Some of the contracts were quite small, e.g. a few trial holes for a new house or an extension to a house. Others, however, were sizeable - full-scale site investigations, laboratory tests on samples of materials, the making of expensive models, and even commissioning market research for a feasibility report he was preparing. J.J. Ward
Like the vast majority of fellow engineers, I am proud to be a part of the civil/structural engineering profession of the 20th century. Our joint contribution to the development, maintenance and progress of our nation is a very significant one. Few would dispute that. S.G. Gilbert