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Concrete 99 Sydney May 1999

Concrete 99 Sydney May 1999. Arch Structures - Spanning Past Present and Future Doug Jenkins Reinforced Earth Engineering Manager. The Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge. Gladesville Bridge. Why Arches?. Arches are efficient in use of materials. Arch behaviour is now well understood.

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Concrete 99 Sydney May 1999

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  1. Concrete 99Sydney May 1999 Arch Structures - Spanning Past Present and Future Doug Jenkins Reinforced Earth Engineering Manager

  2. The Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge

  3. Gladesville Bridge

  4. Why Arches?

  5. Arches are efficient in use of materials

  6. Arch behaviour is now well understood

  7. Arches are now economical to construct

  8. Early Arch Bridges

  9. The Landscape Arch, Utah

  10. The Industrial Revolution

  11. Telfords Proposal for London Bridge

  12. Theories of Arch Design

  13. Robert Hooke, 1676: • "The true mathematical and mechanical form of all manner of arches for building, with the true butment necessary to each of them. A problem which no architectonick writer hath ever yet attemted, much less performed” • "As hangs the flexible line, so but inverted will stand the rigid arch."

  14. David Gregory: • "When an arch of any other figure is supported, it is because in its thickness some catenaria is included"

  15. Parabolic arch enclosing a catenary

  16. An old photograph of Pontypridd Bridge

  17. An-Ji Bridge

  18. The Blackfriars Committee • Eight “gentlemen of the most approved knowledge in building geometry and mechanics” • A clergyman • The Astronomer Royal • A Teacher of medicine • A lawyer • Two professors

  19. Samuel Johnson • "If the elliptical arch be equally strong with the semicircular, that is, if an arch, by approaching to a straight line, looses none of its stability, it will follow that all arcuation is useless… • But if a straight line will bear no weight, which is evident to the first view, it is plain like wise that an ellipsis will bear very little, and that as an arch is more curved its strength is increased."

  20. “Publicus” (believed to be Robert Mylne himself) • "…so that, if I understand it right, all from the haunches of the arch downward becomes a pier or abutment, to support a small part of the arch in the middle as a segment of a circle. • This middle part, if built like other arches would make a lateral pressure against these abutments, but to take that away he has placed cubical stones, which he calls joggles, in the joints of the arch; so that every stone tends to fall perpendicularly by its being carried along with the one above it, and nor shoved aside as in other arches, which is the cause of the lateral pressure."

  21. The Twentieth Century

  22. A Monier Arch Bridge

  23. Grafton Road Bridge, Auckland

  24. Salginatobel Bridge

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