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Masonry Structures: Between Mechanics and Architecture

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Editors:
  1. Danila Aita

    1. Associazione Edoardo Benvenuto, Genova, Italy

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  2. Orietta Pedemonte

    1. Dipartimento di Scienze dell' Architettura, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy

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  3. Kim Williams

    1. Kim Williams Books, Torino, Italy

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  • Contributions by scholars of international prestige, among which Mario Como, Jacques Heyman, Patricia Radelet-de Grave, Anna Sinopoli, Piero Villaggio

  • Compares different approaches to the study of masonry structures

  • Includes one of the last works written by Piero Villaggio

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Between Mechanics and Architecture: The Quest for the Rules of the Art

    • Salvatore D’Agostino
    Pages 1-19

  3. Designing by “Expérience”: Lecreulx Model Tests for the Design of the Abutments of the Bridge of Fouchard

    • Santiago Huerta
    Pages 21-47

  4. Statics of Historic Masonry Constructions: An Essay

    • Mario Como
    Pages 49-72

  5. Equilibrium Analysis

    • Jacques Heyman
    Pages 73-76

  6. A Semi-analytical Approach for Masonry Arch Dynamics

    • Anna Sinopoli
    Pages 77-100

  7. On the Statics of the Dome of the Basilica of S. Maria Assunta in Carignano, Genoa

    • Andrea Bacigalupo, Antonio Brencich, Luigi Gambarotta
    Pages 101-126

  8. The Panthéon’s Stability Already Questioned by Pierre Patte in 1770

    • Patricia Radelet-de Grave
    Pages 127-185

  9. Transcription of Patte’s 1770 Mémoire on the Panthéon’s Stability Together with Rondelet’s Marginalia

    • Patricia Radelet-de Grave
    Pages 187-236

  10. Notes on Limit and Nonlinear Elastic Analyses of Masonry Arches

    • Danila Aita, Riccardo Barsotti, Stefano Bennati
    Pages 237-264

  11. Some Aspects on the Statics of Masonry Arches

    • Elio Sacco
    Pages 265-290

  12. A Direct Approach to Membrane Reinforced Bodies

    • Massimiliano Lucchesi, Miroslav Šilhavý, Nicola Zani
    Pages 291-312

  13. The Thrust of an Elastic Soil of Variable Density Against a Rigid Wall

    • Piero Villaggio
    Pages 313-322

  14. In Memory of Piero Villaggio

    • Stefano Bennati
    Pages 323-324

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 325-327
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About this book

The book aims to provide an overview of the state of the art on the mechanics of arches and masonry structures. It is addressed to an international audience, arising from the international context in which the Associazione Edoardo Benvenuto has carried out its activities in recent years, under the honorary presidency of Jacques Heyman. The book belongs to the collection Between Mechanics and Architecture, born in 1995 from the collaboration of several renowned scholars, including Edoardo Benvenuto (P. Radelet-de Grave, E. Benvenuto (eds.), Entre Mécanique et Architecture / Between Mechanics and Architecture, Birkhäuser, Basel 1995).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Associazione Edoardo Benvenuto, Genova, Italy

    Danila Aita

  • Dipartimento di Scienze dell' Architettura, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy

    Orietta Pedemonte

  • Kim Williams Books, Torino, Italy

    Kim Williams

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Masonry Structures: Between Mechanics and Architecture

  • Editors: Danila Aita, Orietta Pedemonte, Kim Williams

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13003-3

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham

  • eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-13002-6Published: 11 November 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37242-6Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-13003-3Published: 02 November 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 327

  • Topics: Mathematics in Art and Architecture, History of Mathematical Sciences

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