Issue 9

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The Structural Engineer

Complete issue (September 2014)

All articles published in the September 2014 issue of The Structural Engineer.

Publish Date – 28 August 2014

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Innovative teaching and learning of structural concepts

This year's winners of the Institution's Award Scheme for Excellence in Structural Engineering Education, Tianjian Ji and Adrian Bell of The University of Manchester, describe some of the resources developed over a 14-year period, that are enhancing student engagement in (and teacher delivery of) structural concepts.

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Engineering the Endless Stair

A collaboration between architects (de Rijke Marsh Morgan), structural engineers (Arup) and the American Hardwood Export Council resulted in an 'endlessly reconfigurable' cross-laminated timber sculpture that was first showcased at last year's London Design Festival and has since been displayed in several European cities.

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Managing Health & Safety Risks (No. 31): Controlling risks in ground works

The majority of projects involve digging holes in the ground for basements, foundations or trenches. Obvious hazards are those of side collapse or water inundation – with potentially lethal consequences to people working at depth.

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Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety (CROSS)

Director of Structural-Safety, Alastair Soane, summarises the latest CROSS Newsletter and encourages more members to participate.

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Composite and Steel Construction compendium. Part 9: Light gauge steelwork

This article focuses on light steel framing, which is becoming increasingly popular in a wide range of applications; used not only as secondary steelwork, but also as primary load-bearing elements.

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Concrete Bridge Design and Construction. No. 9: High performance concretes and new materials

This article examines the various high performance concretes that might be used for concrete bridges, to make them either quicker and easier to build, or more economic.

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Evaluation of EC2 rules for design of tension lap joints

Authors from Heriot-Watt and The University of Stuttgart use a large amount of test data to evaluate EC2 rules for the design of tension lapped joints - and suggest that a degree of revision may be necessary, as the rules don't appear to offer the margins of safety expected.

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Viewpoint: Communication in the event of failure

John Carpenter suggests that in the UK, the HSE and professional institutions could do more to help expedite the release of post-incident information – enabling engineers to learn from past mistakes for the benefit of the public.

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Viewpoint: Simplified design of concentrically loaded reinforced concrete columns

Alasdair Beal imparts some extra information relating to the paper by Lazlo Kollár, Bernát Csuka and Tamás Ther, published in the July 2014 issue of The Structural Engineer.

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Verulam (readers' letters – September 2014)

Letters this month include discussion on designing columns for fire resistance, the pioneer of portal frames, raising the CM exam pass mark and SER Ltd.

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