All articles published in the March 2013 issue of The Structural Engineer.
Publish Date – 27 February 2013
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.
This article concerns individual competence for engineers, covering education, training and CPD.
Director of Structural-Safety, Alastair Soane, summarises a recently issued SCOSS Alert about sub-standard imported products entering the UK.
Andrew Briggs considers the impact that short periods of inefficient working can have on a design company's profit margin.
This Technical Guidance Note describes how prestressed precast concrete planks are constructed, specified and installed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This month's letters concern equilibrium, safe load tables and full height glass barriers.
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.