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The Structural Engineer, Volume 66, Issue 17, 1988
Peter Campbell will succeed Keith White as President of the Institution 1988- 89 at an Ordinary Meeting at Institution headquarters on 6 October 1988. The handover ceremony begins at 6.0 pm when Mr Campbell will give his Presidential Address, ‘Structural engineers-some of their wider responsibilities’, the full text of which will be published in The Structural Engineer in November.
Design rules for assessing the degree of bearing strength enhancement in solid walls subjected to Concentrated load are presented. These are derived from all previously reported experimental and analytical studies of this problem and apply to all types of masonry built with solid units (clay, light and normal-weight concrete, calcium silicate). Relatively simple design rules are proposed because of the large number of variables involved and the scatter of test results. The bearing strength enhancement is expressed as a function of the loaded area ratio and load location, with all other variables being absorbed in the general scatter of test results. The procedure also includes an allowance for the varying influence of wall size on bearing strength enhancement and, when compared to reported experimental results, yields conservative estimates of strength enhancement in almost all cases. A.W. Page and Professor A.W. Hendry
Our Institution was one of the foundation members of the CPD in Construction Group which has an influence and membership stretching across the whole construction industry and its several professions. It is appropriate to remind all classes of Institution membership of the Group’s definition of CPD as ‘the systematic maintenance, improvement and broadening of knowledge and skills and the development of personal qualities necessary for the execution of professional and technical duties throughout the practitioner’s working life’. Professor A. Bolton