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Mr Dwight

Emeritus Fellow; Emeritus Reader in Structural Engineering

Background

John Dwight. from Falmouth in Cornwall, was an undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read Mechanical Sciences. Following three years with Stothert & Pitt, he returned to Corpus to take an MSc. He then spent ten years in the aluminium industry, first with the Teesside fabricators Head Wrightson and then with the Aluminium Division of TI. He took the academic plunge at Birmingham University in 1958 and moved to the Engineering Department at Cambridge in 1961, where he worked until his retirement in 1984. He was elected a Fellow of Magdalene in 1962. Mr Dwight is a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers and a Chartered Engineer.

Research

His interest has always been in metal construction (steel, aluminium). His earlier research at Cambridge was in structural steel, especially on buckling problems and the effects of welding. (The four box-girder bridge failures in 1969-71 were good for business.) Then in 1980 he moved back to research into aluminium. His book "Aluminium Design and Construction" was published in 1999 by Spon.

Contact

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