Correspondence on Designing for Safety by P.H. Allen and E.G. Lovejoy

Overcoming shape bias in timber laminates-and in rounding off errors in finite element shell programs! Mr P. Mawer, from Bude, remarks on a technique by which it is possible to overcome ‘wedging’ effects in the production of timber laminates, and draws an interesting analogy with a numerical device in computing: During manufacture of glued-laminated timber, a little trick is played by the planer operator.

Wednesday 17 May 1989 brought together representatives from universities, polytechnics, and colleges of further education, for the 4th annual Education Conference at Institution headquarters. Maureen Kitching

Members in private practice may be aware that the Institution has been investigating whether a ‘mutual’ insurance company might be of interest to some of its members as a means of providing professional indemnity insurance. J.A. Waller