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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS OF WILLIAM HENRY GLANVILLE,C .B.E.,D .Sc. (Eng.), Ph.D., President, 1950-51 ITi s a tradition that thPer esident shall open his address witha n expression of gratitude to them embers for electing him to the position of the highest honour in the profession of the civil engineer. I wish to class myself with my predecessors in this respect, although in my case gratitude is tempered with a feeling of great trepidation and an acute awareness of my many shortcomings...

OLANVILLE ON CIVIL ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND ITS FUTURE . 211 Paper No . 5482. Civil Engineering Research and its Future . " * By WILLIAM HENRY GLANVILLE. C.B.E., D.Sc., Ph.D., M. Inst . C.E. TABLE: OF CONTENTS. Civil engineering rescarch and The Institution . . . . . . . . . . The present organization of ciril engineering research in Great Britain . . . ( a ) The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research . . . . . . ( b ) Research Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (c) Universities ...

Paper No. 6438 ECONOMIC ANID TRAFFICSTUDIES Sir William (Henry) Glanville, C.B., C.B.E., DSc., M.I.C.E., F.R.S. Director of Road Research, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Second ofjive Papers for discussion at an Ordinary Meeting on Tuesday, 3 May, 1960, at 2.30p.m., and for subsequent written discussion SYNOPSIS Studies have been made of traffic and economic aspects the construction the of of the London-Birmingham Motorway. These studies, which started in 1955, were not connected with the decision to build the Motorway but were primarily intended to help with development of methods making traffic economic the of and assessments of the results of large-scale road construction...

NEWS N5 Round Table Conference on Overseas Highway Problems, 1958 This report presents in summarized form the main points emerging during the first Round Table Conference on OverseasHighway Problems held in London from 30 June to 2 July, 1958, at the Institution of CivilEngineers. (The first three conferences were known as Colonial Highway Conferences.) Agenda The Agenda was as follows: Introductory statement (1) Bridges (2) Legislation (3) Traffic studies (4) Mechanization ( 5 ) Highway costing methods (6) Road and bridge records (7) Research (8) Report tothe Permanent International Association of Road Congresses (9) Staff problems (10) Future conferences...

JAMES FORREST LECTURE, 1959 ROADS AND ROAD USAGE: THE APPLICATION OF SCIENCE bY William Henry Glanville, CB, C B E , DSc., Ph.D., .. . . . Past-President I.C.E. Director of Road Research, Road Research Laboratory, D.S.I.R. IT IS 30 years since the last James Forrest Lecture' was given on the subject of roads. The lecturer, Sir Henry Maybury, was then Director-General of Roads in the Ministry of Transport and was shortly to become the President of the Institution...

GLANVILLE AND THOMAS ON REINFORCED-CONCRETE BEAMS. 291 Paper No. 5061. " The Redistribution of Moments in Reinforced-Concrete Beams andFrames." By WILLIAMHENRY GLANVILLE, D.Sc., Ph.D., M. Inst. C.E., and FREDERIOK GEOROE THOMAS, B.Sc., Assoc. M. Inst. C.E. (Ordered by the Council to be published without oral discussion.) TABLE O F CONTENTS. PAGE Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Faart I. Reinforoed-concrete built-in and continuous beams .. Tests a t working loads on built-in beems ...

150 GLANVILLE, GRIME AND DAVIES ON THE BEHAVIOUR " The Behaviour of Reinforced-Concrete Piles During Driving." By WILLIAMHENRY GLANVILLE, D.Sc., Ph.D., M . Inst. C.E. ; GEOFFREY GRIME, M.Sc. ; and WILLIAMWHITRIDGE DAVIES, B.rSc. (Eng.), Assoc. M. Inst. C.E. TABLE O F CONTENTS. Outline of mathematical theory General description of apparatus Experimental work. ... Results andconclusions Appendixes . . .... ....... ............ PAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 . 159 . 166 . 191 151 THE investigation into the behaviour of reinforced-concrete piles, which has been carried out at the Building Research Station, with the collaboration of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors, was initiated as a direct result of troubles experienced while driving piles through a hard stratum to a set in firm ground below...

14 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS PRESIDENTIALADDRESS OF Henry Francis Cronin, C.B.E., M C , B.Sc.(Eng.) .. President, 1952-53 IN electing me your President YOU have conferred upon me a very great honour and one which I esteem most highly. I do, indeed, sincerely thank you for this, and I will use my best endeavours to fulfil the duties of this high officeto the utmost my ability, and I hope to your satisfaction. of I must now devote my attention to my first task, and that is, the Presidential Address...

244 LEA ON EXPERI"AL SCIENCE THE UNWIN MEMORIAL LECTURE, 1954 The President reminded members that in 1947 Miss E. T. Unwin, a niece of thelate Dr W. C. Unwin, Past-President of theInstitution, bequeathed a sum of f2,500 to the Institution. The conditions attaching to this legacy were that the sum of 21,500 was to be invested in trust for the foundation of a " William Cawthorne Unwin Lectureship '' consisting of an Unwin Memorial Lecture on Engineering Research to be delivered to the members of the Institution annually, or a t such other period of recurrence as the Council might determine...

ANDRADE ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS. 287 JAMES FORREST LECTURE, 1921. The President said that the James Forrest Lecture had been established and endowed in honour of Mr. James Forrest, who had been Secretary of The Institution from 1859 to 1896, and Honorary Secret,ary from 1896 until his death in 1917. Mr. Forrest bequeathed to The Institution some pieces of silver plate which had been presented to him during the course of his life. That plate was normally exhibited on each occasion of the James Forrest Lecture, but it would be appreciated that, owing to war conditions, it was undesirable that the plate should be displayed that evening...