Jacques Heyman List of publications

Books
1956 The steel skeleton, Vol. 2: Plastic Behaviour and design (with J.F. Baker and M.R. Horne), Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge 1956
1957 Plastic design of portal frames, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1957.
Projektowanie ram portalowych metoda nonoci granicznej, Arkady, Warsaw 1961.
1964 Beams and framed structures, Pergamon Press, 1964 (second edition 1974). Vigas y prticos, Juan de Herrera, Madrid
2002.
1968 Engineering plasticity (with F.A. Leckie, eds.), Papers for a conference held in Cambridge, March 1968, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge 1968.
1969 Plastic design of frames (with Sir John Baker), Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1969 (Paperback 1980).
1971 Plastic design of frames, Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1971.
1972 Coulombs Memoir on Statics: An essay in the history of civil engineering, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
1972. Republished, Imperial College Press, London 1997. Il saggio di Coulomb sulla statica, Hevelius Edizioni,
Benevento 1999.
1977 Equilibrium of shell structures, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1977.
1982 Elements of stress analysis, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1982.
1992 The masonry arch, Ellis Horwood, Chichester 1992.
1995 The stone skeleton, Cambridge University Press, 1995. El esqueleto de piedra, CEHOPU, Juan de Herrera, Madrid
1999.
1995 Estructuras de fbrica, Juan de Herrera, Madrid 1995 (A collection of 28 articles on masonry construction translated
into Spanish).
1996 Elements of the theory of structures, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996.
1996 Arches, vaults and buttresses, Variorum, Aldershot 1996 (A collection of 26 articles on masonry construction).
1998 Structural analysis: a historical approach, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998. Anlisis de estructuras: Un
estudio histrico, Juan de Herrera, Madrid 2004.
1999 The science of structural engineering, Imperial College Press, London 1999. La ciencia de las estructuras, Juan de
Herrera, Madrid 2001.

Articles on steel design: Refereed journals

1948 Approximate methods of calculating collapse loads of stanchions bent in double curvature (with J.W. Roderick),
Welding Research, Vol. 2, n. 4, August 1948, p. 635.
1950 Tests on miniature portal frames (with J.F. Baker), The Structural Engineer, Vol. 28, n. 6, June 1950, p. 139.
1951 Extensions of the simple plastic theory to take account of the strain-hardening range (with J.W. Roderick), Proc. I.
Mech. E., Vol. 165, 1951, p. 189.
1951 The limit design of space frames, Journ. Appl. Mech., Vol. 18, n. 2, June 1951, p. 157.
1951 The plastic design of beams and plane frames for minimum material consumption, in Quart. Appl. Math., Vol. 8, n. 4,
January 1951, p. 373.
1952 Elasto-plastic stresses in transversely-loaded beams, Vol. 173, Engineering, March 21 and 28, 1952, p. 359 e 389.
The limit design of a transversely-loaded square grid, Journ. Appl. Mech., Vol. 19, n. 2, June 1952, p. 153.
1953 Plastic design of plane frames for minimum weight, The Structural Engineer, Vol. 31, n. 5, May 1953, p. 125.
The plastic theory of structural design (with D.T.Wright and V.L. Dutton), The Engineering Journal (Engineering
Institute of Canada), Vol. 36, n. 12, , December 1953, p. 1603.
The plastic design of grillages, in Engineering, Vol. 176, December 25, 1953, p. 804.
1954 Plastic design of plate girders with unstiffened webs (with V.L. Dutton), Welding and Metal Fabrication, Vol. 22, n.
7, July 1954, p. 265.
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1956 Experimental verification of the strengths of plate girders designed in accordance with the revised British Standard
153: Tests on full-size and on model plate girders (with E. Longbottom), Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs, Part III, Vol. 5,
August 1956, p. 462.
Plastic design of single-storey frames, British Welding Journal, Vol. 3, August 1956, p. 332.
Design problems (with M.R. Horne), British Welding Journal, Vol. 3, August 1956, p. 372.
1957 Tests on I-section stanchions bent about the major axis, in British Welding Journal, August 1957, p. 373.
Plastic design of new laboratory block for B.W.R.A., British Welding Journal, Vol. 4, October 1957, p. 488.
Plastic design of pitched-roof portal frames, Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs, Vol. 8, 1957, p. 119.
1958 Plastic design of rotating discs, in Proc. I. Mech. E., Vol. 172, 1958, p. 531 (Paper awarded a James Clayton Prize).
Minimum weight of frames under shakedown loading, Proc. A.S.C.E., Vol. 84, n. EM4, October 1958.
Automatic minimum weight design of steel frames (with W. Prager), Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 266, n. 5,
November 1958, p. 339.
Automatic design of steel buildings, Engineering, Vol. 186, December 25, 1958, p. 834.
1959 Automatic analysis of steel-framed structures under fixed and varying loads, Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs, Vol. 12, 1959, p.
39.
Limit design of framed structures, Engineering, Vol. 187, February 27, 1959, p. 275.
Limit design of framed structures made of imperfectly plastic materials, Bulletin de lAcadmie Polonaise des
Sciences, Vol. 7, n. 2-3, 1959, p. 157. See also Non-homogeneity in elasticity and plasticity, Pergamon Press, London
1959, pp. 251-257.
Inverse design of beams and grillages, Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs, Vol. 13, 1959, p. 339.
On the absolute minimum weight design of framed structures, Quarterly J. Mech. Appl. Math., Vol. 12, part 3, 1959,
p. 314.
1960 On the miminum-weight design of a simple portal frame, Int. J. Mech. Sci., Vol. 1, 1960, p. 121.
An approach to the design of tall steel buildings, Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs, Vol. 17, 1960, p. 431.
1961 On the estimation of deflexions in elastic-plastic framed structures, Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs, Vol. 19, 1961, p. 39.
The plastic design of latticed portal frames (with B.H. Fisher, L.G. Jaeger), The Structural Engineer, Vol. 39, October
1961, p. 318.
1965 A plastic composite design (with R.P.Johnson and J.C.H. Finlinson), Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs, Vol. 32, 1965, p. 198.
1966 The repeated loading of ductile steel structures (with B.D. Threlfall), Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs, Vol. 34, 1966, p. 477.
Inglis A: a fully rigid multi-storey welded steel frame (with J.C.H. Finlinson and R.P. Johnson), in The Structural
Engineer, Vol. 44, December 1966, p. 435.
1968 Shakedown analysis: the design of a 275 kV switchhouse (with R.P. Johnson, P.P. Fowler and I.P. Gillson), The
Structural Engineer, Vol. 46, n. 4, April 1968, p. 97.
The simple plastic bending of beams, Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs, Vol. 41, 1968, p. 751.
1970 The full plastic moment of an I-beam in the presence of shear force, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, Vol. 18, 1970, pp. 359365.
1973 Plastic design and limit state design, The Structural Engineer, Vol. 51, 1973, p. 127.

Articles on steel design etc.: Conference proceedings etc.

1952 Plastic analysis and design of steel-framed structures, in Fourth Congress I.A.B.S.E., p. 95, Cambridge and London
1952.
Approximate methods in the limit design of structures, in Proc. First U.S. Congress of Applied Mechanics, 1952.
1955 Full-scale loading tests on a welded plate-girder floor system (with B.E.S. Ranger), in Conference on the Correlation
between Calculated and Observed Stresses and Displacements in Structures, Instn Civ. Engrs, September 1955, p.
156.

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1956 Ossatures mtalliques dans le stade plastique (with J.F. Baker), in Schweizer Archiv, Vol. 22, n. 7, July 1956, p. 213.
1957 The study of plasticity in Russia, Nature, Vol. 179, March 2, 1957, p. 444.
1958 Rotating disks Insensitivity of design, in Proc. 3rd U.S. Congress Appl. Mech., 1958, p. 551.
1960 Progress in plastic design, in Plasticity, Proceedings of the second symposium on naval structural mechanics,
Pergamon Press, London 1960, pp. 511-535.
1963 The calculation of steel frames, in Progress in Applied Mechanics, Macmillan, 1963, p. 263.
The plastic design of tall steel buildings, in The design of high buildings, Hong Kong University Press, 1963, p. 192.
1966 Multi-storey welded steel frames, Building Materials, Vol. 26, n. 4, 1966, p. 45.
Plastic theory of design for structures, Engineering, Vol. 201, April 15, 1966, p. 745.
Plastic theory and design (with J.F. Baker), in The Steel Designers Manual, Chapter 23, 3rd Edition, London 1966.
Plastic design in Britain (with J.F. Baker), in Publications, International Association for Bridge and Structural
Engineering, Vol. 26, 1966, p. 31.
1968 Bending moment distributions in collapsing frames, in Engineering Plasticity, Cambridge 1968.
The plastic design of braced multi-storey frames, in 8th Congress I.A.B.S.E., New York, 1968, pp. 501-510.
1972 The significance of shakedown loading, in 9th Congress I.A.B.S.E., Amsterdam 1972.
1973 Simple plastic theory applied to soil mechanics, in Proc. Symp. Plasticity and Soil Mechanics, Cambridge 1973, pp.
161-172.
1975 Overcomplete mechanisms of plastic collapse, in Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 15, 1975, p.
27.
Les principes du calcul plastique, in Les mthodes doptimisation dans la construction, Editions Eyrolles, Paris 1975,
pp. 85-109.
1979 Evolution des mthodes de calcul des structures, in Evolution et thories modernes en lasticit et plasticit, Paris 1979,
p. 297.
1983 The development of plastic theory 1936-48: some notes for a historical sketch, in L.J. Morris (ed.), Instability and
plastic collapse of steel structures, Granada, London 1983.
Writings on masonry construction et sim
1966 The stone skeleton, Int. J. Solids Structures, Vol. 2, 1966, p. 249-279.
1967 On shell solutions for masonry domes, Int. J. Solids Structures, Vol. 3, 1967, pp. 227-241.
Spires and fan vaults, Int. J. Solids Structures, Vol. 3, 1967, pp. 243-257.
Westminster Hall Roof, Proc. Instn civ. Engrs., Vol. 37, 1967, p. 137-162.
1968 On the rubber vaults of the Middle Ages, and other matters, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Vol. 71, March 1968, pp. 177188.
Beauvais Cathedral, Trans Newcomen Soc., Vol. 40 (1967-68), 1971, p. 15.
1969 The safety of masonry arches, Int. J. Mech. Sci., Vol. 11, 1969, pp. 363-385.
1972 Gothic construction in ancient Greece, J. of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 31, n. 1, 1972, p. 3-9.
Two masonry bridges: I. Clare College Bridge (with C.J. Padfield), Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs, Vol. 52, 1972, p. 305.
Two masonry bridges: II. Telfords bridge at Over (with B.D. Threlfall), Proc. Instn civ. Engrs, Vol. 52, 1972, p. 319.
1976 The strengthening of the West Tower of Ely Cathedral, Proc. Instn civ. Engrs, Vol. 60, 1976, p. 123.
Couplets Engineering Memoirs, 1726-33, in A. Rupert Hall and Norman Smith (eds.), History of Technology 1976,
Mansell, London 1976, pp. 21-44.
Inertia forces due to bell-ringing (with B.D. Threlfall), Int. J. Mech. Sci., Vol. 18, 1976, p. 161.
An apsidal timber roof at Westminster, Gesta, Vol. 15, 1976, p. 53.
1977 The Gothic Structure, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Vol. 2, 1977, pp. 151-164.
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The restoration of masonry: structural principles, Architectural Science Review, Vol. 20, n. 2, 1977, pp. 35-37.
1980 The rehabilitation of Teston bridge (with N.B. Hobbs and B.S. Jermy), Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs, Vol. 68, 1980, p. 489.
The estimation of the strength of masonry arches, Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs, Vol. 69, 1980, p. 921.
1982 Shibam and Wadi Hadramawt, Report no.3 (with R. Lewcock), Serial no. FMR/CLT/CH/82/139, Technical Report
RP/1981-1983/4/7.6/04, UNESCO, Paris 1982.
1983 La restauration des ouvrages de maonnerie: principes structurels, in Restauration des ouvrages et des structures,
Presses de lcole nationale des ponts et chausses, Paris 1983.
Chronic defects in masonry vaults: Sabourets cracks, Monumentum, Vol. 26, 1983, pp. 131-141.
1984 The high endurance of the masonry structure, in Durability and design life of buildings, The Institution of Civil
Engineers, 1984, pp. 59-65.
Calculation of abutment sizes for masonry bridges, in Colloquium on History of Structures, International Association
for Bridge and Structural Engineering, 1982 (Institution of Structural Engineers, 1984, pp. 115-120).
1985 The maintenance of masonry; papering over the cracks, in Proc. Symp. Building Appraisal, Maintenance and
Preservation, Bath, July 1985 (Institution of Structural Engineers).
The crossing piers of the French Panthon, The Structural Engineer, Vol. 63A, 1985, pp. 230-234.
The timber octagon of Ely Cathedral (with E.C. Wade), Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs, Vol. 78, 1985, p. 1421.
1986 Statical aspects of masonry vaults and domes, in Restoration of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments, Thessaloniki
1986, pp. 229-235.
1987 The structural analysis of Gothic architecture, Proceedings of the Royal Institution, Vol. 59, 1987, pp. 215-226.
1988 Masonry arches, vaults, and domes, in Henry J. Cowan (ed.), Encyclopedia of Building Technology, Prentice-Hall,
1988.
Polenis problem, Proc. Instn civ. Engrs, Vol. 84, 1988, pp. 737-759.
1989 The care of masonry buildings: the engineers contribution, in A. Brebbia (ed.), Structural Repair and Maintenance of
Historical Buildings, Computational Mechanics Publications, 1989, p. 3.
1991 Hemingborough Spire, in C.A. Brebbia, J. Dominguez, F. Escrig (eds.), Structural Repair and Maintenance of
Historical Buildings II, Vol. 1: General Studies, Materials and Analysi, 13, Computational Mechanics Publications,
1991.
1992 How to design a cathedral: some fragments of the history of structural engineering, in Proc. Instn civ. Engrs, Vol. 92,
1992, pp. 24-29.
Leaning towers, Meccanica, Vol. 27, 1992, pp. 153-159.
1993 The collapse of stone vaulting, in C.A. Brebbia and R.J.B. Frewer (eds.), Structural Repair and Maintenance of
Historical Buildings III, Computational Mechanics Publications, 1993, pp. 327-338.
The roof of the monks dormitory, Durham, in M. Jackson (ed.), Engineering a Cathedral, Thomas Telford, London
1993, pp. 169-179.
1994 Gloucester Cathedral: The fourteenth-century choir vault, in Palladio, nuova serie, Anno VII, n.14, Luglio-Dicembre
1994, pp. 97-100.
1995 The mechanics of masonry stairs, in C.A. Brebbia and B. Leftheris (eds.), Structural Studies of Historical Buildings IV,
Vol. 2, Computational Mechanics Publications, 1995, pp. 259-265.
1997 The vibration of masonry pinnacles, in S. Snchez-Beitia and C.A. Brebbia (eds.), Structural Studies, Repairs and
Maintenance of Historical Buildings (STREMAH V), Computational Mechanics Publications, 1997, pp. 429-436.
1998 Hookes cubico-parabolical conoid, Notes Rec. R. Soc. Lond., Vol. 52 (1), 1998, pp. 39-50.
Mechanical behaviour of arches and vaults, in P. Roca, J.L. Gonzlez, E. Oate and P.B. Loureno (eds.), Structural
analysis of historical constructions II, CIMNE, Barcelona 1998, pp. 1-6.
The assessment of strength of masonry arches, in A. Sinopoli (ed.), Arch Bridges, Balkema, Rotterdam 1998, pp. 9598.
2000 Palladios wooden bridges, architectural research quarterly, Vol. 4, 2000, pp. 81-85.

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An observation on the fan vault of Henry VII Chapel, Westminster, architectural research quarterly, Vol. 4, 2000, pp.
357-372.
2001 Ancient cathedrals stand up: the structural design of masonry, Ingenia, issue 10, November 2001, pp. 19-23.
2002 Rose windows, in Drew H.R. and Pellegrino S. (eds.), New approaches to structural mechanics, shells and biological
structures, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2002, pp. 115-125. Also in Becchi A., Corradi M., Foce F.,
Pedemonte O. (eds.), Essays on the History of Mechanics. In memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoardo
Benvenuto, Birkhuser, Basel 2003, pp. 165-177.
2003 Wren, Hooke and Partners, in Huerta S. (ed.), Proceedings of the First International Congress on Construction History,
vol.1, Instituto Juan de Herrera, Madrid 2003, pp. 3-9.
2003 The structure of the high vault of Henry VIIs chapel, in Tim Tatton-Brown and Richard Mortimer (eds.), Westminster
Abbey: The Lady Chapel of Henry VII, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2003, pp. 219-226.

Miscellaneous
1962 The mechanics of the game of Croquet (with C.R.Calladine), Engineering, Vol.193, June 29, 1962, p. 861.
1972 The development of new analytical techniques, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., A. 272, 1972, pp. 565-572.
1973 The stability of a vertical cut, Int. J. Mech. Sci., Vol. 15, 1973, pp. 845-854.
1986 John Fleetwood Baker 1901-1985, The Cambridge Review, Vol. 107, May 1986, pp. 83-86.
1987 John Fleetwood Baker, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 33, 1987.
1996 Hamblys paradox, Proc. Instn civ. Engrs Civ. Engng, Vol. 114, 1996, pp. 161-166.
1998 Coulombs analysis of soil thrust, Proc. Instn civ. Engrs Geotech. Engng, Vol. 131, 1998, pp. 83-88.
1999 Naviers Straitjacket, Architectural Science Review, Vol. 42, 1999, pp. 91-96.
2003 Truesdell and the History of the Theory of Structures, in A. Becchi, M. Corradi, F. Foce, O. Pedemonte (eds.), Essays
on the History of Mechanics, Birkhuser, Basel 2003, pp. 9-19.
2005 Theoretical analysis and real-world design, The Structural Engineer, Vol. 83, n. 8, 2005, pp. 14-17.
A peculiar tale, Construction History Society Newsletter, n. 72, 2005.
The history of the theory of structures, in S. Huerta (ed.), Essays in the history of the theory of structures. In honour of
Jacques Heyman, Instituto Juan de Herrera, CEHOPU, Madrid 2005, pp. 1-8.

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