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The Structural Engineer, Volume 72, Issue 14, 1994
Suppose that an owner of industrial premises asks a structural engineer to design a warehouse floor so as to withstand the loads of heavy plant and machinery. The engineer recommends a type of flooring manufactured by a well known floor supplier. The contractor installs it. Six months later cracks appear. Experts are called in. No one can say what the cause of the problem is, since there appears to be no faulty installation and the flooring material used is well known and generally recommended. Ian R. Yule
Why ‘Verulam’? On 17 May last, we recalled our origins and aims as set out on the occasion of our first appearance in The Structural Engineer in December 1974. What we did not seek to explain was the origin of our baptismal name - a matter which we know has puzzled not a few. As some may have guessed, we must needs claim some form of association with the Roman forerunner, ‘Verulamian’, of the town of St Albans, Hertfordshire. But then, why? Verulam
This paper presents a method of assessment of the stiffness increase due to different types of non-structural screed. The types of screed considered are concrete screeds either floating, unbonded or bonded, which are the types of screed most commonly in use. The proposed model is validated against the results of a large number of tests carried out on difierent types of precast concrete floor construction, both in the laboratory and in the field. R.M. Moss