Shear Strength of Reinforced Brickwork Beams. influence of Shear Arm Ratio and Amount of Tensile Ste

Mr. Gordon Rose's dilemma in establishing the capacity of load-bearing walls of old buildings to the satisfaction of Authority (April) has drawn further comment; Mr. Stephen Revesz (F) considers it is timely to air this issue and offers practical, commonsense suggestions drawn from experience. He writes: We have had to deal with similar problems when converting existing buildings. In most cases the floors were found to be just adequate for domestic loading (1.5 kN/m2) but had been in use as offices for a considerable number of years. The owners had controlled storage of papers or office machinery to avoid overloading by commonsense. Verulam

I shall confine myself to fairly obvious generalities when dealing with the subject of housing. But the fact that a generality is obvious does not mean that it is universally perceived. It is one of the features of British life that the more obvious a generality, the less likely it is to be noticed. Lord Goodman

Professor M. R. Horne (F) : Dr. Wood has rendered an enormous service to structural engineers by the publication of this paper. The concept of effective length has been too loose a one as far as most engineers are concerned, and Dr. Wood has shown how powerful and exact a tool it can become. Its use is crucial for the design of column in no-sway frames, and its accurate exploitation for such frames, as opposed to its hitherto empirical application, must surely form the basis for any future design procedures.