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Garside, A
The Structural Engineer, Volume 70, Issue 11, 1992
After thinking back over this period, I have realised that the revolution in the design of structures has been nearly as great as the revolution in transport that took place in the previous half-century, which started with horses and ended with jet aircraft! E.W.H. Gifford
The first rule of successful debt collection must always be that ‘prevention is better than cure’. A few simple, and relatively cheap, measures applied in good time can frequently save much grief later but, even when disaster does strike and a debt appears to be ‘bad’, some welldirected persistence can literally pay dividends. D.J. Cude
Sometimes an increase beyond the normal design loadcarrying capacity of a composite floor slab is highly desirable. This paper describes tests that show the existence of such an increase and how it may be predicted. C.K. Jolly and R.M. Lawson