inverted arch

It involved creating a ferro-concrete inverted arch under the river.

Inverted arches are often used in conjunction with retaining walls.

Huge cuts in the base, inverted arches, allowed views of the sphere's lower half.

The facade is topped by a wide cornice and inverted arches.

Inverted arches are used where sideways forces must be restrained, and where space is most easily available beneath a construction.

A further use of inverted arches is to support lengthways forces from another arch, such as a bridge or viaduct.

Inverted arches have also been added to existing bridges, to reinforce them after their banks start to slide inwards.

The original atrium wall was lost, but reconstructed in the same style, with three portals and inverted arches.

It has the largest existing atrium in Mexico City, surrounded by a thick wall with inverted arches.

The complex is topped by a cornice on with inverted arches are combined with merlons.

Bouch's design was submitted to Stephenson, who recommended the use of inverted arches under the five central piers to reduce ground loading.

Like the flying arch, the inverted arch is not used to support a load, as for a bridge, but rather to resist sideways, inwards loads.

Exploding buildings are this community's landmarks - its inverted arches of triumph, its sinister Taj Mahals.

Huge, dusty tomes and scrolls and rolls of parchment bent the bookcase shelves along the far wall into inverted arches.

Poet Norman Nicholson described the Screes as "like the inverted arches of a Gothic Cathedral".

An inverted arch is a civil engineering structure in the form of an inverted arch, inverted in comparison to the usual arch bridge.

But if one went too near one of the little inverted arches seemingly closed by panels of silk it would open and out would rush a creature from a dream of hell.

Travelers will be able to enter the center through restored arches in the base of the Corbin Building and pass by the inverted arches that form its foundations, which will be exposed to view.

It is made with blocks of granite and consists of a geminate inverted arch, with thread cutting molding and keystones, is aligned with and supports arch panels on flat pilasters.

Ships of the Honduran Navy fly as a naval ensign a version of the national flag in which the five star emblem is replaced by the coat of arms of Honduras above an inverted arch of five small turquoise stars.

The synagogue's design featured two unusual window patterns that were meant to suggest Jewish religious symbolism: a hexagon, which Williams meant to suggest the Star of David, and an inverted arch, which was inspired by the outline of a seven-candle menorah.

The first Eagle Gate was remodeled and enlarged with new stone piers and wider inverted arches in the early 1890s (with Ralph Ramsay's eagle rebuilt and fortified); designed by Don Carlos Young, an architect son of Brigham Young.

The unorthodox solution of the mason William Joy in 1338, was the insertion of low arches topped by inverted arches of similar dimensions, forming scissors-like structures that brace the piers of the crossing on three sides, while the easternmost side is braced by a choir screen.

This matter begot more surveyings of himself in the glass, and he put down his razor and brushed his hair with elaborate care, plastering an inverted arch of it down on his forehead, accomplishing an accurate "Part" behind, and brushing the two wings forward over his ears with nice exactness.