Looking for a paper by Mete A. Sozen... 4

[ChadV]

Hello all,

I'm looking for a paper that I used to have a PDF of, but I'm now unable to find either in my files or online. The title, as I recall, was "The Faustian and the Magian in the Building of a Building Code", or very similar, by Mete A. Sozen (who sadly passed away a couple of week ago, RIP).

The paper was built around discussion of how certain concrete code provisions have evolved through three examples: shear design, flat slabs, and load testing. I was able to find a couple of articles from Concrete International, "The Building of a Building Code" which covered shear design and load testing, and "Young Jirsa's Yen" which covered flat slabs, though in a bit different way than I remember in the paper I'm looking for. I'm hoping to find the above-noted paper that I remember, which included all three examples.

Can any of you fine Eng-Tippers share this paper if you have it in your libraries?

Thanks!
Chad

 

[SlideRuleEra]

The (public domain) paper is one of over 800 documents in Mete Sozen's Digital Library. Appears all of them can be downloaded, free.

Here is the paper: "The Faustian and the Magian in the Building of a Building Code"

Here are all of the documents: "Mete Sozen's Digital Library"

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[Ron]

As always, SRE is a tremendous source of information...both from personal knowledge/experience and his vast library!

 

[BAretired]

And the paper by Sozen is well worth a read!

BA

 

[ChadV]

SRE... thank you very kindly!