All the articles published in the March 2017 issue of The Structural Engineer.
Publish Date – 1 March 2017
Pete Winslow of Expedition Engineering explores how a true performance-based design approach could be applied to structural engineering.
In the third note in this series, David Shields provides a brief guide to the formation of a professional services contract and the obligations this entails.
John Banks examines the role of principal designer under CDM 2015 and discusses how this relates to temporary works design on a project.
In this article, we summarise CROSS newsletter No. 45 from Structural-Safety.
This article considers concerns from Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety (CROSS) about the stability of steel frames during concreting.
The fourth article proposes element design equations for typical loading conditions on a bamboo culm: flexure, shear, axial tension, axial compression and local bearing.
This article outlines key considerations for any structural engineer involved in the conception, design and delivery of moving structures, and provides advice on seeking specialist support.
This article looks at the calculation of across-wind response of structures. The focus is on the calculation of cross-wind response of rectangular buildings, which is not covered by Eurocode 1, Part 1-4 (BS EN 1991-1-4) or BS 6399-2.
Alasdair Beal challenges some of the assumptions made in an article on buckling analysis of slender columns published in the February 2017 issue.
Institution Past President, Professor David Blockley, responds to a recent article by examining the complex factors that contribute to catastrophic events, including human emotions and social psychology.
This month's letters cover the CM Exam, ferrocement, international recognition of engineering qualifications, buckling, seismic engineering and climate change.
Upcoming events at HQ and around the regional groups.
The latest issue of Structures is a special issue presenting selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Advances in Steel-Concrete Composite Structures (ASCCS 2015), held in Beijing, China, on 3–5 December 2015.
This month's question concerns the buttress for a vaulted church roof and has been provided by Institution Member, Hugh Morrison, Director of Hugh Morrison Associates.