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

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.

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.

This article seeks to equip engineers with more knowledge about ruins. Building on Part 11 of the Conservation compendium, 'A career in ruins (the challenges presented by derelict structures)' , it provides further sources of information from a UK perspective for those engineers who look after them.