“In the past, masonry arch-type bridges were common,” he adds. “These heavy stone structures looked beautiful but eventually ...

For centuries a hanging chain has been used as an example to explain how masonry arches stand. Structural engineers are familiar with seventeenth-century scientist Robert Hooke's theory that a ...

The “Exploiting the Resilience of Masonry Arch Bridge Infrastructure (ERMABI)” workshop was sponsored by the ERMABI EPSRC Project, which focuses on developing a deeper understanding of the behaviour ...

A church that is facing a £200,000 repair bill has asked a town council for support. St John the Baptist Church in ...

THE author's object in this text-book has been to present in a simple and direct form a method which can be employed in the design of masonry arches according to the elastic theory. He points out ...

Briefly, structural masonry is a construction system in which ... the architecture is in harmony with the landscape. Dissolving Arch, a weather-specific installation by stpmj, responds to the ...

Masonry arch bridges still form the backbone of the UK's transport infrastructure; approaching 50% of bridge spans on the UK rail and regional highway networks are masonry. However, a number of ...

For centuries a hanging chain has been used as an example to explain how masonry arches stand. Structural engineers are familiar with seventeenth-century scientist Robert Hooke’s theory that a ...