Arches, vaults, and buttresses : masonry structures and their engineering /
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| Author / Creator: | Heyman, Jacques. |
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Variorum, 1996. |
| Description: | x, 418 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Collected studies series ; C546 Collected studies ; CS546. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2547877 |
Table of Contents:
- I. The stone skeleton
- II. On shell solutions for masonry domes
- III. Spires and fan vaults
- IV. Westminster Hall roof
- V. On the rubber vaults of the Middle Ages, and other matters
- VI. The safety of masonry arches
- VII. Beauvais Cathedral
- VIII. 'Gothic' construction in ancient Greece
- IX. Two masonry bridges: I. Clare College bridge / Jacques Heyman and C. J. Padfield
- X. Two masonry bridges: II. Telford's bridge at Over / Jacques Heyman and B. D. Threlfall
- XI. The strengthening of the West Tower of Ely Cathedral
- XII. Couplet's Engineering Memoirs, 1726-33
- XIII. Inertia forces due to bell-ringing / Jacques Heyman and B. D. Threlfall
- XIV. An apsidal timber roof at Westminster
- XV. The rehabilitation of Teston bridge / Jacques Heyman, N. B. Nobbs and B. S. Jermy
- XVI. The estimation of the strength of masonry arches
- XVII. Chronic defects in masonry vaults: Sabouret's cracks
- XVIII. Calculation of abutment sizes for masonry bridges
- XIX. The crossing piers of the French Pantheon
- XX. The timber octagon of Ely Cathedral / Jacques Heyman and E. C. Wade
- XXI. Poleni's problem
- XXII. Hemingbrough spire / Edited by C. A. Brebbia, J. Domingues and F. Escrig
- XXIII. Leaning towers
- XXIV. The collapse of stone vaulting / Edited by C. A. Brebbia and R. J. B. Frewer
- XXV. Gloucester Cathedral: The fourteenth-century choir vault
- XXVI. The mechanics of masonry stairs / Edited by C. A. Brebbia and B. Leftheris.
