'The computer has come to stay, we must live with it and this book teaches us how to do so whilst remaining masters of the proceedings' Sir Ove Arup. (Understanding Structural Analysis. Introduction to the first edition)
'Brohn's magnificent text presents a radical departure...Such an approach has much to recommend it' Times Higher Education Supplement (Understanding Structural Analysis. First Edition)
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May 2009
2008-2009 Review
This has been the busiest year since the courses were first run in the 1980's.
Understanding Structural Behaviour: 9 Courses
This course is still the most popular and in terms of its effectiveness, the most innovative for the delegates. The test that is used to establish a base line for the course shows a depressingly poor performance. This is, of course, a test of the academic system that produced the graduates. The story is the same; very little attention to teaching behaviour and too much use of computers.
Understanding Structural: Design 2 Courses
The USB course is a pre-requisite for this course which always reduces its frequency.
Understanding Structural Modelling: 3 Courses
Thus course is specially designed for a leading firm of consulting engineers for their in-house programme and is particularly suited to organisations that have an acknowledged specialisation in advanced structural engineering.
Understanding Structural Analysis: 3 Courses
See below.
Stability of Steel Structures: 2 courses
This is a new course, designed, and designed especially for the in-house programme in India.
Training in India
In January and February 2009 we ran in-house training in Mumbai and Hyderabad for an international company, based in Denmark. They are gradually moving all the structural design to India and this focussed their attention on a long-term approach to training.
Three courses were run at the two offices; Understanding Structural Behaviour, Understanding Structural Analysis and Stability of Steel Structures. These course supported a significant change in their design office procedures; engineers under training are now required to produce an approximate analysis of the structure, prior to a computer analysis.
We have seen a lot of airports this year, but is has been a most interesting year, especially as we are now permanently located in France, just outside Cahors in southern France.
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