Verulam (readers' letters – September 2014)

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

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.

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.