Rampant Arch and Its Optimum Geometrical Generation
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Velilla Lucini, Cristina; Alcayde García, Alfredo; San Antonio Gomez, Jose Carlos de; Gil Montoya, Francisco; Zavala Morencos, Ignacio de; [et al.]Date
2019-05-03Abstract
Gothic art was developed in western Europe from the second half of the 12th century to the end of the 15th century. The most characteristic Gothic building is the cathedral. Gothic architecture uses well-carved stone ashlars, and its essential elements include the arch. The thrust is transferred by means of external arches (flying buttresses) to external buttresses that end in pinnacles, which accentuates the verticality. The evolution of the flying buttresses should not only be considered as an aesthetic consideration, but also from a constructive point of view as an element of transmission of forces or loads. Thus, one evolves from a beam-type buttress to a simple arch, and finally to a rampant arch. In this work, we study the geometry of the rampant arch to determine which is the optimum from the constructive point of view. The optimum rampant arch obtained is the one with the common tangent to the two arches parallel to the slope line. A computer program was created to determine th...
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rampant arch
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flying buttresses
cathedral