As hangs the flexible line: equilibrium of masonry arches

DOI10.1007/s00004-006-0015-9zbMath1118.01011OpenAlexW1993160582MaRDI QIDQ871637

John Ochsendorf, Matt DeJong, Philippe Block

Publication date: 20 March 2007

Published in: Nexus Network Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-006-0015-9

zbMATH Keywords

earthquake assessmentgraphic staticsthrust line

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of mechanics of deformable solids (74-03) Graphical methods in numerical analysis (65S05)

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