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Master and servant — Redundancy — Employment — Contractor's agreement to act as agent for National Coal Board in employing and paying workmen — Workmen's contract of service with board — Contractor acting as employer — Workman unaware of agreement — Payment of wages and giving of statutory notice of terms of employment by contractor — Prejudice to workman by relying on contractor's representation as to employer — Whether contractor estopped for denying himself to be workman's employer.

March 30, 1971 Redundancy — Redundancy payment — Calculation — Contract of employment with normal working hours — Payment of allowance for time and expense for employee travelling from home to remote place of work — Whether to be taken into account — Contracts of Employment Act, 1963 (c. 49), Sch. 2, para. 2(1) (2) — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c. 62),s. 1(1), Sch. 1, para. 5(2).

A bibliographical review of the finite element methods (FEMs) applied for the linear and nonlinear, static and dynamic analyses of basic structural elements from the theoretical as well as practical points of view is given. The bibliography at the end of the paper contains 1,726 references to papers, conference proceedings and theses/dissertations dealing with the analysis of beams, columns, rods, bars, cables, discs, blades, shafts, membranes, plates and shells that were published in 1996‐1999.

October 6, 1971 Master and Servant — Redundancy — Redundancy payment — Dismissal — Renewal of contract or re‐engagement — Change in ownership of business — “Offer in writing” of re‐engagement contained in several documents — Final document did not expressly refer to all earlier documents — Whether earlier documents could be incorporated by necessary inference — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c. 62), ss. 3(2) (b), 13 (2).

The effects of fatigue load level and plate thickness on the fatigue performance of reinforced concrete T-beam bridges.

Fatigue load tests were performed based on the fatigue damage theory of reinforced concrete, combined with finite element model analysis. The other conditions are controlled separately, and the fatigue performance of the T-beam bridge carriageway slab under different fatigue load levels and different plate thicknesses is studied.

The fatigue process of the carriageway slab of a reinforced concrete T-beam bridge is divided into three stages: fatigue damage generation, fatigue damage development and fatigue failure. Under certain other conditions, as the fatigue load level increases, the fatigue damage of the carriageway slab accelerates; as the thickness of the carriageway slab increases, the fatigue resistance of the carriageway slab improves.

Tests and simulations have been carried out, but have not been applied to actual engineering for the time being.

Increasing the thickness of the carriageway slab in actual engineering is conducive to improving the fatigue performance of the bridge, and heavy-duty traffic has a greater impact on the durability of the bridge.

It has certain reference value for bridge design, inspection and subsequent maintenance and reinforcement.

The originality of this article lies in designing and carrying out static and cyclic load tests separately, while introducing material damage models based on a large number of references and combining finite element analysis to consider the impact of a specific factor on fatigue performance. The test and analysis results can provide reference for bridge design and inspection.

October 5, 1973 Industrial Training — Industrial training levy — Road transport industry — Company providing haulage mainly outside Great Britain — Liability for levy — Company disputing liability — Whether company engaging “mainly in activities not being road transport activities' — Industrial Training Act, 1964 (c.16), s.12(2) — Industrial Training (Road Transport Board) Order, 1969 (S.I. 1969, No. 879), Sch. para. 1(b), 2(a)(i) — Industrial Training Levy (Road Transport) Order, 1971 (S.I.1971, No. 1049), art. 2(1)(o), 3(1).

June 30, 1969 Redundancy — Dismissal — “Offer of suitable employment” — Offer of employment elsewhere at different terms — “Suitable employment” — Chargehand shipwright offered employment as shipwright at other dockyard — Whether contract substantially equivalent to terminated contract — Whether “suitable employ‐ment” — Whether question of fact and degree for tribunal — When court will interfere — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62), s. 2(4).