networks. Until recent decades, it was the most common method for solving such problems. He received numerous honors. Among these were an honorary Master of Arts degree from Yale University, the Lamme Medal of the American Society for Engineering Education (1944), the Wason Medal for Most Meritorious Paper of the American Concrete Institute (1935), and the Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers of Great Britain (1959). Hardy Cross Method Hardy Cross's description of his method follows: "Moment Distribution. The method of moment distribution is this: Imagine all joints in the structure held so that they cannot rotate and compute the moments at the ends of the members for this condition; at each joint distribute the unbalanced fixed-end moment among the connecting members in proportion to the constant for each member defined as "stiffness"; multiply the moment distributed to each member at a joint by the carry-over factor at the end of the member and set this product at the other end of the member; distribute these moments just "carried over"; repeat the process until the moments to be carried over are small enough to be neglected; and add all moments – fixed-end moments, distributed moments, moments carried over – at each end of each member to obtain the true moment at the end." [Cross 1949:2] References External links moment distribution programs IStructE Gold Medal winners 1885 births 1959 deaths Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni MIT School of Architecture and Planning alumni Structural engineers