Verulam (readers' letters – March 2014)

Winner of the Institution's Guthrie Brown Award for a bridge-related paper published in The Structural Engineer in 2012, Matthew Myerscough comments on a book by two steel bridge experts.

This article highlights the considerable benefits of adopting a standard pile schedule for Eurocode design.

This article examines the prestressing for a concrete bridge. Prestressing enhances the capacity of a member that is weak in tension, but strong in compression. It effectively creates a new material that is strong in tension. A prestressed bridge has much less steel to be handled, which reduces congestion, leading to easier and quicker concrete placing.