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Issue 6

Browse the content of the June 2016 issue of The Structural Engineer.

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Complete issue (June 2016)
All the articles from the June 2016 issue of The Structural Engineer.

Publish Date – 1 June 2016

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Reader survey: Are we giving you what you want?
We received a terrific response to The Structural Engineer 2016 reader survey, with 1614 of you taking the time to complete the questionnaire. Here's what you told us…

Publish Date – 1 June 2016

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Do you know your Husband Prize from your Oscar Faber Award?
With the Institution's annual People and Papers Awards Luncheon taking place on 8 June, we offer a brief guide to the Papers Awards – and the presidents they are named after. Awards are made annually at the discretion of the Papers Awards Judging Panel.

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Getting nostalgic about the future for wood
Matt Collins, Sales Director at Metsä Wood, explains why the engineered timber specialist's 'reimagining' of some iconic buildings from the past – its Plan B programme – has resonated so strongly with the contemporary design community, as well as the reasons high-performance, sustainable, engineered timber systems are increasing their share of the construction market.

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The Vegas High Roller observation wheel
This article describes the project development of the Vegas High Roller observation wheel project and some of the challenges that this unique structure created.

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Engineer's Guide to PI Claims. Part 5: Defence arguments – partial defences
Our series from Griffiths & Armour turns its attention from complete to partial defence arguments when faced with a professional indemnity (PI) claim.

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Managing Health & Safety Risks (No. 51): Hazards from gas
This article shows why gas leaks and their consequences should be one of the standard hazards considered in any risk assessment.

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Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety (CROSS)
The latest CROSS newsletter from Structural-Safety includes news of an initiative to investigate weather-related damage to buildings.

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An error in Timoshenko's 'Theory of Plates and Shells'
The authors of recently conducted a study into the elastic behaviour of thin (Kirchhoff) plates using commercial finite-element software. This article presents the work conducted to uncover the reason for this difference and reveals an error in the text. 

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Conservation compendium. Part 18: Non-invasive quantitative appraisal of historic floor structures

This article aims to discuss some of the issues, challenges, tools and techniques available to the practising structural engineer when assessing existing structures.

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Profile: Anne Fuller
Anne Fuller has been an Institution chief examiner, has designed challenging buildings all over the UK, and is now director of Capita's civil and structural engineering division in the North. She discusses her career with Jackie Whitelaw and wonders whether talking to girls at school is really all we have in our armoury in the battle to increase diversity in the profession.

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Viewpoint: What do women want?
What makes an engineering practice attractive to women, asks Margaret Cooke of Integral Engineering Design. Could it just be a happy, healthy, friendly and flexible workplace that appeals to everyone – regardless of gender?

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Conservation compendium. Epilogue: The future of conservation engineering
James Miller brings this series to a close by looking back over ground covered and forward to a bright future in which conservation accreditation is increasingly valued and engineers are able to innovate through the application of emerging technologies.

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Viewpoint: Inspiring the next generation
In this article Philip Isaac, Dan Bergsagel and Sinéad Conneely propose small, short, local design-and-build projects as an effective means of engaging students with engineering, and as a process which all members can get involved in.

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Verulam (readers' letters – June 2016)
This month's letters hark back to the advent of computer design and continue the debate over where responsibility lies when a fabricator designs the connections for a consulting engineer's steel frame.

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Diary dates (June 2016)
A round-up of events at Institution HQ and around the regional groups.

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Spotlight on Structures (June 2016)
In this section we shine a spotlight on papers recently published in Structures – the Research Journal of The Institution of Structural Engineers.

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And finally... (June 2016)
This month we bring you another question from the Institution's Structural Behaviour Course. The topic is deflected shapes. Answers will be published in the July issue.

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