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Royal Air Force Museum Hendon: “Skydance” Canopy Sculpture
The Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon, North London, has just built a new museum to house and display its large collection of military aircraft. The building, a …
Plymouth University Extensions at Portland Square
Plymouth University has recently opened a major extension to house several departments. IN August 2003 a brand new faculty building for the University of …
Unique bridge at Milton Keynes
A new bridge at Whaddon Road, Milton Keynes is unique on two counts. It employs the design concept of continuing steel friction piles up out of the ground to …
Building on contaminated land
by Dr Bill Baker Introduction For many years successive governments have recognised the need to tackle the problems of regeneration of the large tracts of …
Weathering Steel Bridges
Corus anticipates a dramatic increase in the use of weathering steel in bridges following the recent publication of design standard BD7/01 Weathering Steel for …
AD 256: Design Considerations for the Vibration of Floors – Part 3
AD 254 Design Considerations for the Vibration of Floors – Part 2 gave a general over-view on the prediction of the acceleration and fundamental …
AD 255: Design of Asymmetric Cellular Beams: Application limits of SCI Publication P-100
Cellular beams have become the vogue for many long span applications both in the UK, and increasingly in France. Often cellular beams are designed in buildings …
AD 254: Design Considerations for the Vibration of Floors – Part 2
AD 253 Design considerations for the vibration of floors warned that where vibrations disturb the occupants of a building it is usually excessive accelerations …
AD 253: Correction
This equation, which appeared on page 37 of NSC November/December 2001 was incorrect. The correct version is printed below. In order to retain the accurate …
AD 253: Design Considerations for the Vibration of Floors
Designers are more frequently facing the need to consider, in detail, the vibration response of floors. This Advisory Desk article is the first of a collection …
