'HE local hostilities have contributed to one aspect of the investigations of the Foundations Research Committee of the Engineering Society of China, namely the effect of vibration on local structures, humorously reported Mr. J. B. Watson, honorary chairman of the committee, when he presented their First Progress Report at a combined meeting in the Park Hotel yesterday of the Engineering Society and the local branches of the Institutions of Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, with which it is associated.
The research committee is a per-assisting included the Whangpoo manent body, founded on March 15, Conservancy Board, the Public Works and consisting of Messrs, U. F, Beich-Department, Shanghai Power Ca, mann, S. E. Flory, C. P. Hsueh, P. F.
Shanghai Waterworks Ca, and the Unterberger, J. B. Watson '(frst League of Nations Commission and members) and F, J, Sanger later co- the Bureau of Hydraulic Engineering. opted).
Eight sub-committees or|Mr. Watson pointed out that in con-"sections" had been formed. Mr.|nection with the collection of test-Watson reported, the work being records and other information con-distributed between them and among cerning foundations, all such informa-local bodies and firms which had tion was treated with professional agreed to ce-operate. The sections confidence and nothing was publish-comprised literature and bibliography; laboratory apparatus; field apparatus; model ahd full-scale tests; settlement; vibrations; earthworks and retaining structures; and geology and soil classification. Thirty local engineers and physicists were actualjy working in the various sections and in the main committee, Local bodies and firms which were
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