All articles published in the April 2013 issue.
(NB Technical Guidance Note Level 2, No. 4 contained within this issue was updated in October 2016. For the updated article, see the individual article entry for this issue.)
Publish Date – 26 March 2013
Based on his 2013 James Sutherland History Lecture, Bill Addis looks back over three centuries of model testing; from the design of St Paul's Cathedral in the 1670s to the introduction of computer modelling in the 1980s.
This article highlights the different types of crane available (and the factors which determine their use), the process for introducing a crane onsite and the specific requirements when using tower cranes.
Sean Brady highlights potential similarities between the recent Sasago road tunnel collapse in Japan and the catastrophic failure of part of Boston’s I-90 Connector Tunnel in 2006.
This note discusses the concept of fatigue and how its effects can be countered.
This note focuses on the design of reinforced concrete beams to BS EN 1992-1-1 – Eurocode 2: Design of Concrete Structures – Part 1-1: General Rules for Buildings. It covers the design of multispan beams that have both ‘L’ and ‘T’ cross-section profiles.
The second article in this series describes different types of engineering wood products, in addition to timber structural systems and their structural applications.
This paper describes an innovative Japanese technique for constructing bridge foundations underwater.