Railway Bridge Construction in Malaya (Continued)

By the sudden death of Colonel Moncrieff, on the 10th January, the Institution of Structural Engineers has lost a very good friend, and members of the engineering profession in general have lost a brilliant colleague.

The object of the series of tests described in the following report was to obtain the value of the adhesion between mortar and brick. The results existing at the present date are fairly ancient and are given in Table No. 1.

The modern building has developed from the small domestic building in which engineering considerations were so unimportant as compared with the architectural ones that a person with very little understanding of structural mechanics could quite successfully carry the work through to a successful conclusion without engineering collaboration. Oscar Faber