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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...pier and the one adjoining and maintain the thrust of the transverse arch E. Let us take the adjoining pier L of the plan, that of the entering angle, which is located between three windows and which receives a large transverse arch, two branches of the great pointed arches of the principal vaults and a third branch of a pointed arch from the chapel (Fig. 113). It is again seen that here the drawing of each part has been made independently of the rest and that the arrangement shows only the fewest possible connections, in order to avoid too complicated designs. This independence of the different members of the vaults, in falling upon the piers, allows great elasticity to the structure, --an elasticity necessary in a monument so light, very high and very unevenly weighted. It can, in fact, be affirmed, that in the choir of the church of St. Nazaire there have been torsions and considerable movements, without destroying any of the solidity of the building. Once more, these are not examples to follow, but useful ones to, know, because of the simple and practical means put in operation. In Figure 114 we see the outer side of the same pier. We are placed in the angle of the chapel, at the point V of the plan; we suppose the upper mullions of the great window of this chapel to be taken away.1 At A is seen the bar of iron which maintains the tops of the pillars of these mullions and which serves at the same time as a tie for the springing of these arches see "Meneau "; at B, the groove reserved for setting the open-work centering of the mullions; at C, the stones of impost of the wall-arch that encloses the window-frame of cut-stone; at E, the branch of the pointed arch of the chapelvault, whose courses of impost are mingled with those of the wallarch. At...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781231870242
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 330
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1231870249
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 590 gr


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