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Masonry cross vaults: an overview of the historical developments
The cross vault represents one of the most diffused and fascinating structural typologies of the European architectural heritage. Its history began almost two thousand years ago and reached a widespread use during the Middle Ages with the outstanding gothic cathedrals. Without any proper scientific support but only using trial-and-error methods, considering each building as a scaled specimen of a new one to be built, the ancient workmanship achieved a proper competence represented by the so-called rules of thumb. However, despite this long-lasting history, it is only from the eighteenth centuries that scholars have tried to tackle the problem of analytically describing its structural behaviour. In this regard, the first part of the present study is devoted to the evolution of cross vaults from the geometrical and constructive standpoint, whereas the second one describes the historical advancements of its structural behaviour, until the development of modern limit analysis.
Masonry cross vaults: an overview of the historical developments
The cross vault represents one of the most diffused and fascinating structural typologies of the European architectural heritage. Its history began almost two thousand years ago and reached a widespread use during the Middle Ages with the outstanding gothic cathedrals. Without any proper scientific support but only using trial-and-error methods, considering each building as a scaled specimen of a new one to be built, the ancient workmanship achieved a proper competence represented by the so-called rules of thumb. However, despite this long-lasting history, it is only from the eighteenth centuries that scholars have tried to tackle the problem of analytically describing its structural behaviour. In this regard, the first part of the present study is devoted to the evolution of cross vaults from the geometrical and constructive standpoint, whereas the second one describes the historical advancements of its structural behaviour, until the development of modern limit analysis.
Masonry cross vaults: an overview of the historical developments
GAETANI, ANGELO (Autor:in) / MONTI, Giorgio (Autor:in) / Lourenço, Paulo B. (Autor:in) / MARCARI, GIANCARLO (Autor:in) / Gaetani, Angelo / Monti, Giorgio / Lourenço, Paulo B. / Marcari, Giancarlo
01.01.2016
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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