THE NEW ENGINEERS
British Steel's Jef Robinson believes that the Cardington tests will revolutionise the way engineers design structures in steel. 'When engineers design for wind loading they design for it as a natural part of the structural synthesis. They don't design the structure and then wrap it in a whole lot of wind breaks. But that's exactly what they do for fire: design the structure and wrap the elements in insulation designed to stop fire heating them up. The new engineering will incorporate ...
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