This model is of the masonry arch bridge over the Seine at Neuilly designed by Jean Rudolph Perronet. The model displays each of the five arches at different stages of completion, cofferdams pile ...

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 ...

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 ...