Comment: There is more to a flower than a STEM

This month's letters focus primarily on the question of gender balance in engineering, with many readers angered by a view expressed in the February issue. Other topics include design-and-build contracts, design of gantry girders to the Eurocodes, scale effects, and a warning about overestimating the accuracy of analyses.

This month's contribution comes from Sandra Pena Perez and concerns horizontal reactions in a beam subjected to an axial load.

In this section we shine a spotlight on papers recently published in Structures – the Research Journal of The Institution of Structural Engineers. This month we highlight articles that have recently been made available online.