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DR. A. D. ROSS, who will succeed Prof. C. H. Lobban in tha University of London chair of civil engineering at King's College (see Nature, July 20, p. 91), graduated at Edinburgh in 1929. After some years in proffessional civil engineering on railway and road obstruction, he returned to the University of Edinburgh as an assistant in the Engineering Department under the late Sir. T. Hudson Beare. He left Edinburgh to serve for a time as an education officer with the Air Ministry, and since 1935 he has held the appointment of lecturer in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at King's College, London. Dr. Ross's main interest has been in the field of concrete and reinforced concrete, and he has studied especially the non-elastic deformations in this material and their effects on the stress distribution in structures. His earlier work was concerned with an analysis of the numerous factors controlling creep, and he has devoted attention to the influence of the ratio of surface area to volume on the magnitude and distribution of shrinkage. Subsequent work has been concerned with the application of the knowledge of creep and shrinkage to reinforced concrete structures, and he has obtained solutions to a variety of problems in the distribution of stress by means of an idealized Voigt model. The results of his researches have been communicated in papers published by the Institution of Civil Engineers and other technical bodies.
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Civil Engineering at King's College, London: Prof. A. D. Ross. Nature 158, 125 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158125c0
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