Author: Croll, J G A
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Croll, J G A
The Structural Engineer, Volume 75, Issue 10, 1997
It is approximately 3 years since the Northridge Earthquake, in the San Fernando Valley in the northwest of the Los Angeles basin, surprised the engineering community in California and elsewhere by demonstrating the vulnerability of steel framed buildings. It is the purpose of this paper to describe the very serious problems that have been encountered with many of the steel framed buildings in the Los Angeles area. P. Maranian
Raising engineers’ status Brian Stocker from Canterbury, Kent, has a positive suggestion on the subject and writes: I suppose we should be big enough to hold our heads up in society without the protection of registration or licencing. The reality, I think, is that we are not recognised perhaps as much as we should like to be or maybe deserve to be simply because we are not so protected. I come in contact with numbers of language students from diverse parts of the world who treat me with almost embarrassing respect because I am an engineer. I am just not used to it! Their engineers are all registered.
Mr R. Stainsby (F) My part in the new industry standard for moment connections was in some technical editing and typesetting, and I do thank the authors for the nice things they say about me. I would like to discuss fully welded beam-to-column connections which form Section 4 of the book. Welding on site is a viable alternative to bolted construction and, if properly organised, can be done in an economic way; I would like to see fully welded connections more in use for frames.