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The Structural Engineer, Volume 78, Issue 6, 2000
The UK Government is pressing for a large increase in house construction. At the time of writing, the target is of the order of 5M new dwellings in the next 20 years. The crucial question is: how will they be built? Professor J.M. Davies
The need for legislation is not new. Moses recognised the need for environmental legislation over 3400 years ago by including a brief reference in the Mosaic Law that instructed the Israelites to avoid polluting and defiling the land. Roger Johnson
Ductility is required in composite joints to enable redistribution of moment to occur. This may be provided through yielding of the slab reinforcement and slip of the shear connection. As the reinforcement may eventually fracture, a calculation method is needed to determine the joint rotation corresponding to this failure mode. This paper describes such a method. Comparisons with test results show good agreement. The proposed model can also be used to predict rotation capacity limited by slip due to partial shear connection. Professor D. Anderson, Professor J.M. Aribert, Professor H. Bode and H.J. Kronenburger