Roman Thrust Roof

O n this page we take a look at some of the innovative building techniques used by the romans techniques so advanced that many are still used to this day and in many cases structures built with using these techniques are still standing.

Roman thrust roof.

A triangle cannot be distorted by stress a truss gives a stable form capable of supporting considerable external load over a large span. The mastery by roman architects and engineers of the arch vault and dome further enhanced by their development of concrete. In architecture a vault french voûte from italian volta is a self supporting arched form usually of stone or brick serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof. Effectively a series of.

The semi circular roof is known as a tunnel vault. The weight distribution inherent to the arch means that the thrust is always outwards. Roman architects discovered that two barrel vaults that intersected at right angles. The simplest kind of vault is the barrel vault also called a wagon or tunnel vault which is generally semicircular in shape.

Truss in engineering a structural member usually fabricated from straight pieces of metal or timber to form a series of triangles lying in a single plane. The barrel vault is the simplest form of a vault. A barrel vault also known as a tunnel vault or a wagon vault is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve or pair of curves in the case of a pointed barrel vault along a given distance the curves are typically circular in shape lending a semi cylindrical appearance to the total design.