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The Structural Engineer, Volume 59, Issue 9, 1981
Floor loadings for industrial buildings Mr R. C. Hairsine queried (March 1981)the design load of 24 and 36 kN/m2, and we now publish some of the responses. Verulam
With the expected emergence of a new Engineering Council, and in the knowledge of competing claims among the various Institutions, the Council have authorised the publication of the following statement. Based on a draft prepared by Professor Sir Alan Harris, CBE (Past President), it sets out to inform the uninformed of the way in which the Institution serves and supports its members in the practice of their particular skills as structural engineers.
The paper compares the economics of various seyice reservoir designs and deals with the technical and financial advantages of the simply supported wall over the more conventional cantilever or propped cantilever solution. Rectangular reservoirs with capacities up to 31 800 m3 and circular tanks to 4500 m3 are included in the exercise. J. Walmsley