Issue 5

The Structural Engineer

Complete issue (May 2013)

All articles published in the May 2013 issue of The Structural Engineer.

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Managing Health & Safety Risks (No. 16): Standard tied independent scaffolds

This article focuses on the design and inspection of scaffolds. Based on UK practice and experience, the principles should be universally applicable.

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The 30 year failure cycle

Could the 30 year failure cycle evident in speciﬁc bridge failures be coincidence or something more? Sean Brady looks at the technical and human aspects of this unfortunate trend.

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Technical Guidance Note (Level 1, No. 26): Cracking in concrete

An understanding of what causes concrete to crack is important when inspecting new works or existing structures.

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Technical Guidance Note (Level 2, No. 5): Designing a concrete column

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

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Timber Engineering Notebook No. 3: Timber frame structures – platform frame construction (part 1)

This article introduces platform frame construction and describes the structural engineering checks required for virtual load paths and the individual framing members.

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Vibration of floors supported by beams (part 1: single span floors)

This paper presents results obtained through the development of a model for the calculation of natural frequencies of single span floors supported by beams.

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Vibration of floors supported by beams (part 2: multi span floors)

This paper presents results obtained through the development of a model for the calculation of natural frequencies of multi span floors supported by beams.

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Verulam (readers' letters – May 2013)

Topics discussed in this issue include product safety, torsion in piled foundations, BS EN 1990 combination rules and padstones.

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Comment and Reply

Responding separately to 'Prestressing: recovery of the lost art' by Simon Bourne (February 2013 issue) Paul Jackson and Alan Hayward challenge some of the ideas expressed by the author.

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