Rational building; being a translation of the article "Construction" in the Dictionnaire raisonne ́de l'architecture française of Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc; (1895)
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 48
pport the pressure, the builders occupied them- selves at first in rendering the effect of this less disastrous. They had observed that the greater the section presented by the stones of an arch from the intrados to the extrados, the greater would be the disorder occasioned by the movement produced… … Fig. I I. but independent of one another, as indicated by Figure 11 in A. The arches built in this way form, as it were, so many rings, acting separately and preserving much greater elasticity, and, therefore, greater resistance than in an arch of the same section, built after the method indicated…
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