Tests on Composite Beams with Low Levels of Shear Connection

What follows is based on a contribution I was asked to make to the Institution’s Informal Study Group ‘Qualitative Analysis of Structural Behaviour’ at a meeting held to consider ‘Graduate understanding of structural behaviour’. My task was to give the perspective of a large practice; in developing such a perspective, I consulted many colleagues and found a remarkable unanimity of opinion. Nevertheless, the views expressed are not those of the Ove Arup Partnership, but my own. P.M. Morreau

The results and consequences from the BRE research programme on the structural effects of alkali-silica reaction (ASR) are described, centred on the testing of specially produced and conditioned, full-scale prestressed beams. N. Clayton, R.J. Currie and R.M. Moss

Mr R. Campion (British Railways Board) The authors are to be congratulated on preparing an alternative design for this bridge, within a very short timescale, that managed to combine both visual and structural elegance. It was a fitting reward that the bridge should have received a commendation in the Structural Steel Design Award scheme.