Structural Assessment of Corrosion-Damaged Steel Beams Using Minimum Capacity Curves

Designing with less common engineering materials Giles Waley has written from Stirling in Scotland: I was struck by the contrasting commentaries in the Journal of 4 May which included references to structural design in two engineering materials that are both ‘non-mainstream’. The thought-provoking report on glass as a structural engineering material discussed the ‘...importance of using technology in the right way and considering the totality of the underlying form...’.

Almost a quarter of the century ago, Mr Rickard graduated from Surrey University with an MSc with distinction and a set of what he now, 24 years, three jobs and one successful consulting company later, regards as somewhat naive ideas about engineering life.

Mr C.C. Banks (M) (Maunsell Ltd) The design and detailing of the joints is one of the most difficult problems in the design of small and medium-sized bridge decks, which make up the bulk of a bridge designer’s workload. Therefore, the author is to be thanked for addressing this topic in such a comprehensive way, with so many excellent illustrations. However, all design is a matter of choices: choosing which of the conflicting design criteria to emphasise in each individual case (e.g. buildability, maintainability, aesthetics, cost).