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Browse the content of the March 2013 issue of The Structural Engineer.

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Complete issue (March 2013)
All articles published in the March 2013 issue of The Structural Engineer.

Publish Date – 27 February 2013

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Embedding technology in the structures thread of a civil engineering degree
This paper describes an ongoing journey, which began in the autumn semester of 2005 and continues to the present day, with the aims of promoting good teaching at the University of Salford, UK.

Publish Date – 27 February 2013

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Managing Health & Safety Risks (No. 14): Competence
This article concerns individual competence for engineers, covering education, training and CPD.

Publish Date – 27 February 2013

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Are your certified products what you think they are?

Director of Structural-Safety, Alastair Soane, summarises a recently issued SCOSS Alert about sub-standard imported products entering the UK.

Publish Date – 27 February 2013

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Project design – turning theory into practice: Profitability and the '12 minute principle'
Andrew Briggs considers the impact that short periods of inefficient working can have on a design company's profit margin.

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Technical Guidance Note (Level 1, No. 24): Precast concrete planks

This Technical Guidance Note describes how prestressed precast concrete planks are constructed, specified and installed.

Publish Date – 27 February 2013

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Technical Guidance Note (Level 2, No. 3): Designing a concrete slab

This note focuses on the design of one-way-spanning concrete slabs to BS EN 1992-1-1 – Eurocode 2: Design of Concrete Structures – Part 1-1: General Rules for Buildings.

Publish Date – 27 February 2013

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Timber Engineering Notebook No. 1: Timber as a structural material – an introduction
The first in a new series of articles, written by Chartered structural engineers Milner Associates, on behalf of the UK Timber Frame Association (UKTFA), provides technical information on the use of timber as a structural medium.

Publish Date – 27 February 2013

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Improving the design of earthquake resistant reinforced concrete exterior beam-column joints
This article, based on a comparative study of published experimental information, shows where significant improvements could be made in earthquake resistant design of exterior beam-column joints.

Publish Date – 27 February 2013

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Viewpoint: Why change Haiti's cultural building aspirations?
Having made a number of visits to Haiti in a professional capacity, Grenville Phillips expresses his concern at the advice given to Haitians by structural engineers from outside the Caribbean region.

Publish Date – 27 February 2013

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Verulam (readers' letters – March 2013)
This month's letters concern equilibrium, safe load tables and full height glass barriers.

Publish Date – 27 February 2013

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Book review: Handbook of Environmental Engineering Assessment – Strategy, Planning and Management
Institution Past President, Roger Plank, acknowledges the value of this authoritative handbook by Ravi Jain et al, to engineers globally, despite its focus on US practice and policy.

Publish Date – 27 February 2013

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