In the Presentations section of the site I’ve mentioned Edward Tufte and the art of presenting complex information. He even suggests that PowerPoint was complicit in the Challenger disaster due to its inability to convey complex information. Read an extract from his essay The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within here. Anyway, the […]
The paper titled Determination of bridge lifetime dynamic amplification factor using finite element analysis of critical loading scenarios will appear in the September 2008 edition of Engineering Structures. This journal has an impact factor of 0.986 for 2007. This paper outlines the simulations behind the dynamic interaction model which was used in the bivariate extreme […]
Ok, so I can’t resist a bad pun. Anyway, this super example of tension field action is outside the structural laboratories of the Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (LCPC) in Paris, which is the French Government body for research into roads and bridges. This visit to LCPC was part of a European research project. […]
Lectures have ended, exams have been sat, and students have cried with joy and sorrow… So my work is done for the year! But to keep the spirits up, here’s a scene from A Few Good Structural Engineers: Engineer: You want answers? Architect: I think I’m entitled to them. Engineer: You want answers? Architect: I […]
The paper Characteristic traffic load effects from a mixture of loading events on short to medium span bridges has been published in Structural Safety at last. It was first submitted in June 2005 and eventually made available online in April 2007. So I’m delighted that it has eventully been given some page numbers! It has […]