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 327
the skew- back, as indicated at S, he would have only the resistance of the bed TV to counteract the thrust, and the buckling of the wall might result at Y as it did at H'. When builders could not for any cause give to their corbelling the height of three or four courses, they obtained very… … F. The leverage beins Fig. 133. overcome, the corbel A has no other tendency than to slip from B toward G. Then the problem is to make the friction sufficiently great on this bed DG by means of the vertical weight E to prevent this slipping. Corbels then possess two properties : that of carrying…
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