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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Guastavino Vaulting"”.
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Structural analysis and assessment of Guastavino vaulting
… of the masonry tile structures built by the R. Guastavino Company in order to provide recommendations on their analysis and assessment. Structural analyses of two specific geometries - domes and barrel vaults - are carried out with equilibrium and elastic methods to determine how well each …
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Structure and history of Guastavino vaulting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The R. Guastavino Company constructed structural masonry vaults for wings E and H of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (the Museum) between 1910 and 1912. In the early 1960s the Museum relocated the Egyptian and Near- and Far-Eastern galleries to these wings, which in combination with …
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Catalan vaulting in advanced material : new approaches to contemporary compressive form
… ceramics married with traditional timbrel vaulting suggest a new approach to compressive form in structural masonry spans. Research into the history and construction of timbrel vaults and the material properties of cellular ceramic masonry shows that they are well-suited to one another. …
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Innovative Masonry Shell Construction in India’s Evolving Building Crafts: A Case for Tile Vaulting
… to the building crafts. By focusing on masonry vaulting in India, my research brings together two worlds – one that shines light on the variety of innovative masonry shell construction techniques that exist in the county and another that seeks to evaluate the scope of tile vaulting, an over …