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The Structural Engineer, Volume 73, Issue 11, 1995
Synthetic thinking between engineers, architects and designers The profession of civil engineering and its offspring - structural engineering - has its roots in the discipline and hierarchical nature of imperial armies acting on behalf of certain western countries. Here were born the tenets of economy and efficiency. I. Ritchie
Pullout test specimens are widely used in the ussessment of bond performance of reinforcement. However, there are objections to the form of such tests, particularly where ribbed bars are concerned, as the failure mode in pullout tests is very different from that in practical circumstances and failure strengths are considerably higher than design values. J. Cairns and R. Abdullah
Romilly Bobby, the winner of the Institution's Kenneth Severn Award 2024, asks three questions of the structural engineering profession: where are we going? How will we get there? And what should we bring?