Author: Paul Perry
1 November 2016
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Paul Perry
The Structural Engineer, Volume 94, Issue 11, 2016, Page(s) 48
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This month's letters return to the subject of the Eurocodes in the light of Brexit, consider the future of engineering and architecture, and ask for readers' help in identifying the youngest ever person to pass the Institution's CM Exam.
The examples in the book will be useful to engineers looking to set up models in Abaqus to investigate the collapse behaviour of structures, believes Roger Davies, but less so to the more general reader.
With an enormous quantity of easily accessible information, this practical book deserves to be widely adopted for timber scheme designs, says Richard Harris, although a greater focus on timber's sensitivity to moisture movement would have been welcome.