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The Structural Engineer, Volume 71, Issue 10, 1993
The Building Regulations for England and Wales, including the span tables for site-cut timber roofs for dwellings, have recently been revised and reissued. This paper demonstrates that the information given in, and with, the span tables is insufficient to form a safe roof of this type and goes on to propose alternative structural configurations. Finally, the paper argues that the span tables should be removed from the Building Regulations and that design of all timber roofs should be entrusted to structural engineers. J.B. Bellamy
The present paper highlights the significant shortcomings of the traditional maximum (extreme fibre) stress (or strain) approaches for design against free-bending fatigue at the fixed ends to axially preloaded steel spiral strands in various fields of application. Professor M. Raoof