Selected ancient stone bridges with corbelled false-arch structure
Authors:
- Mariusz Maślak,
- Doncho Partov
Abstract
The oldest man-made false-arch stone bridges are pr esented and briefly described. It is shown that this construction technique was based on the experiences of the first builders, formed at the junction of ancient Egyptian, Mycenae an as well as Assyrian and Babylonian cultures. Arches in such bridges have no t yet been constructed in a classical manner, i.e. one that was later prevalent by the Ro mans, but these were only the primitive arch-like structures, with a false needle vault, that were shaped mainly by corbelling. This type of the structure, if it was u sed in bridges, turned out to be much more stable than the well-known at that time and co mmonly used in gateway passages oval “true-arch” built from sun-dried mud bricks.
- Record ID
- CUTe38087bdc71b4f989be1c9535a37106b
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Other language title versions
- Wybrane starożytne mosty kamienne z łukami o konstrukcji opartej na łęku pozornym
- Journal series
- Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports, ISSN 2080-5187, e-ISSN 2450-8594
- Issue year
- 2018
- Vol
- 4
- No
- 28
- Pages
- 163-179
- Other elements of collation
- fot.; rys.; schem.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 177-178; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr., Streszcz.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 4, No. 28
- Keywords in English
- arch stone bridge, false arch, needle vault, mud brick arch, corbelled arch, culvert, aqueduct
- DOI
- DOI:10.2478/ceer-2018-0059 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://ceer.com.pl/resources/html/article/details?id=183828 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 9
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Web of Science
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUTe38087bdc71b4f989be1c9535a37106b/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUTe38087bdc71b4f989be1c9535a37106b
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