A MEMOIR dealing with a subject of great interest to the engineer has recently been issued as a Drapers' Company Research Memoir. 1 It must be admitted that the ordinary treatment of the masonry arch ...

An Aston University researcher has turned one of the basic rules of construction on its head. For centuries a hanging chain has been used as an example to explain how masonry arches stand. Structural ...

Railroad maintenance crews in the U.K. have been using sprayed polymer to strengthen track ballast for about a decade. One contractor now aims to go one step further and use strengthened ballast as a ...

When one hears the term masonry architecture, digital fabrication and automated construction processes are probably not the first ideas to come to mind. By its very nature, the architecture produced ...

MI’s JBC Masonry Innovation Competition wants your ideas for transformative masonry design. We’re challenging practicing and aspiring architects and engineers to advance the future of masonry design ...

THE author's object in this text-book has been to present in a simple and direct form a method which can be employed in the design of masonry arches according to the elastic theory. He points out that ...

Structural engineers are familiar with seventeenth-century scientist Robert Hooke's theory that a hanging chain will mirror the shape of an upstanding rigid arch. However, new research now shows that ...