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Reinforced concrete design

*  ‘What’s Wrong with Load Factor Design?’, ICE Proceedings Part 1, November 1979. (ICE Telford Premium)

*  ‘Concrete Cube Strengths - What Use are Statistics?’, ICE Proceedings Part 2, December 1981. (ICE Telford Premium)

*  ‘Span/depth ratios for concrete beams and slabs’, The Structural Engineer, April 1983. (IStructE Murray Buxton Award). Supplementary correspondence The Structural Engineer, March 1984.

*  ‘Continuous R.C. slabs - reconciling theory with practice’, The Structural Engineer, May 1984.

*  ‘The new concrete Code - is it all it’s cracked up to be?’, The Structural Engineer, August 1986.

*  ‘The Design of Slender Columns’, ICE Proceedings Part 2, September 1986.

* ‘Simple design of multibar concrete columns’, The Structural Engineer, 8th December 1992.

* ‘Draft Eurocode 2: Is this the future of concrete design?’, ICE Proceedings ‘Structures and Buildings, November 1993.

*  ‘Design of normal- and high-strength concrete columns’, ICE Proceedings: Structures and Buildings, vol. 134, November 1999.

*  ‘Factors of Ignorance?’, The Structural Engineer, 16th October 2001, pp. 16-17.

* ‘Eurocode 2: Span/depth ratios for RC slabs and beams’, The Structural Engineer, 20th Oct. 2009, pp. 35-40.

* ‘Fabric-reinforced concrete ground slabs and Concrete Society Technical Report TR34/3’, Concrete, February 2010, pp. 42-44.

* ‘Floor slabs, lasers and levels’, Concrete, September 2011, pp. 15-17.

* ‘A history of the safety factors’, The Structural Engineer 89 (20), 18th October 2011, pp. 20-26.

* ‘Concrete specification and testing - is BS EN 206 fit for purpose?’, Concrete, April 2014, pp. 35-36.

* ‘Concrete Column Design: Simplifying Eurocode 2’, Concrete, May 2019, pp. 52-55.

* Institution of Structural Engineers webinar May 2020 ‘The Design of Slender Columns: from Euler to Eurocodes’                                                 LINK

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