Masonry Design

In my last entry I asked: how do the great pyramids of Giza have the same precise angle of slope as the location of a haunch in a barrel va...

The master masons of antiquity are often described as having an intuitive sense of stresses, load bearing and stress analysis. It is sometim...

Can a mason build a submarine? It sounds kind of silly. I have made several references in this blog to high strength underwater spheres m...

Over the past three entries I wrote about Galileo’s mistaken approach toward analyzing masonry domes and arches, where he invoked his Squar...

For the past two entries on this blog, I looked at Galileo’s valuable insight known to us today as the Square Cube Law . Galileo made the m...

In my last blog entry, I began a discussion of an article by Santiago Huerta, Galileo was Wrong! the Geometrical Design of Masonry Arches ...

I recently read a fascinating article by Santiago Huerta , a Spanish architect whose expertise lies in the structural analysis of arches and...