Re: [CR]Epitome Of Bilaminated Frames

(Example: Framebuilders:Masi)

Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 13:14:56 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Epitome Of Bilaminated Frames
References: <20040522.153706.2400.17.richardsachs@juno.com> <031201c44038$9677db00$0200a8c0@salong>


Olof Stroh wrote:
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> When you are building vaults with brick (or stone) and mortar there is a considerable press outwards that would - if not at the first wind, but certainly after a not too long time - make the vault collapse. To secure them the medival builders built buttresses - both standing and flying - pinnacles and turrets who by their sheer mass altered the resultants of powers from horisontal to vertical (more or less!).
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> Both richly decorated and plain constructions were used, the decoration not being essential for the technical purpose. What could be done - technically - with a massive plain wall in the 12th century was done with lots of decorative splendour two centuries later. But of course, if you get a prominent feature in a decorating age you decorate it!
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> There was a purpose, but it´s still a question of style and fashion.

And I say the flying buttress is a gusset and not a bilam...

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California

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