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The Structural Engineer, Volume 67, Issue 4, 1989
Quality assurance Mr J. S. Scott has sent us this comment on the use of ‘peer review’ in North America: ‘Peer review’, as used in North America, is a procedure, supported by several professional engineering institutions, which for consultants seems much quicker and easier to organise than ‘quality assurance’, as well as demanding less paperwork, being simpler, effective and approved by assurers. Verulam
An informal presentation will be made to a meeting of the lnstitution on Thursday 9 March of the organisation and some of the design aspects of the Channel Tunnel terminal works. J.H. Armstrong
Composite concrete slab bridges formed from inverted, precast, pretensioned T-beams, pitioned with their bottom flanges almost touching and with in situ concrete around and above their webs and top flanges, have proved to be an economical and popular form of construction in the UK for spans up to about 18m. For design purposes, this form of construction is assumed to behave as an orthotropic slab. To determine the actual response to high load, overall factors of safety and the suitability of analytical methods, two 1:3.5 scale models were tested and analysed. The results are of particular interest to structural engineers messing this form of Construction. Professor R.J. Cope and M. Cope