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skew arch

Meaning of "skew arch" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SKEW ARCH

skew arch


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SKEW ARCH

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Skew arch is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SKEW ARCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Skew arch

A skew arch is a method of construction that enables an arch bridge to span an obstacle at some angle other than a right angle. This results in the faces of the arch not being perpendicular to its abutments and its plan view being a parallelogram, rather than the rectangle that is the plan view of a regular, or "square" arch. In the case of a masonry skew arch the construction requires precise stonecutting as none of the cuts form right angles but once the principles were fully understood in the early 19th century it became considerably easier and cheaper to build a skew arch of brick. The problem of building skew arch masonry bridges was addressed by a number of early civil engineers and mathematicians, including William Chapman, Benjamin Outram, Peter Nicholson, George Stephenson, Edward Sang, Charles Fox, George W. Buck and William Froude. A masonry skew arch bridge photographed shortly after its completion in 1898, showing the helicoidal nature of its stonework...

Definition of skew arch in the English dictionary

The definition of skew arch in the dictionary is an arch or vault, esp one used in a bridge or tunnel, that is set at an oblique angle to the span.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SKEW ARCH

sketchiness · sketching book · sketching pad · sketchy · sketted · sketting · skeuomorph · skeuomorphic · skeuomorphism · skew · skew symmetric matrix · skew symmetry · skew-eyed · skewback · skewbacked · skewbald · skewed · skewer · skewness · skewwhiff

WORDS THAT END LIKE SKEW ARCH

acute arch · fallen arch · Gothic arch · horseshoe arch · keel arch · lancet arch · march · Norman arch · ogee arch · pectoral arch · pelvic arch · pointed arch · proscenium arch · Roman arch · round arch · segmental arch · squinch arch · tented arch · triumphal arch · zygomatic arch

Synonyms and antonyms of skew arch in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «skew arch» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SKEW ARCH

Find out the translation of skew arch to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of skew arch from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «skew arch» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

斜拱
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

arco skew
570 millions of speakers
en

English

skew arch
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

तिरछा कट्टर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قوس الانحراف
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

перекос арка
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

arco de inclinação
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

তির্যক খিলান
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

arc oblique
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Gerbang condong
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Schrägbogen
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

スキューアーチ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

스큐 아치
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Skew arch
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vòm nghiêng
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

வளைவு வளைவு
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

तिरकस कमान
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Kemer çarpıt
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

arco skew
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

Pochylić arch
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

перекіс арка
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

arc oblic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λοξό τόξο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skewe boog
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skew arch
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skew bue
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SKEW ARCH»

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The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal
In endeavouring to explain the method of ascertaining one of the most important parts of a skew arch, viz. the twist of the beds, Mr. Fox has likewise introduced a problem which, however simple it may appear to himself, is not certainly very ...
‎1838
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Arch Bridges: Proceedings of the First International ...
These solutions are interesting in their own right as they indicate that a particularly simple stress field is possible in a skew arch, but may also be of use in obtaining other lower bound solutions in the future. One of these results is checked by a ...
Clive Melbourne, 1995
3
Concise Handbook of Civil Engineering
(e) Masonry Arches (i) Skew Arch The skew arch is one whose axis is not at right angles to its face or whose centre lines, in plan, are not perpendicular to each other. A skew back is a sloping surface against which the springer of the arch rests.
V. N. Vazirani, S. P. Chandola, 1996
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ARCH'01: troisième conferénce internationale sur les ponts ...
Chapman pioneered the building of skew arch bridges in 1789 over the Kildare Canal near Naas. 2.6. Pre-1850 Railway Overbridges & Viaducts The first public railway in Ireland was opened in 1834 and the main routes radiating from Dublin  ...
C. Abdunur, 2001
5
Pennsylvania; a Guide to the Keystone State,
SKEW ARCH, a Reading Railroad bridge at 6th and Woodward Sts., so named because its courses of brown stone are laid in ellipsoidal curves, was erected in 1857 from the design of Richard B. Osborne, who submitted a model executed in  ...
Best Books on, Federal Writers' Project, 1940
6
Popular Mechanics
Method of Testing a Skew-Arch Bridge: Any Uniform Load is Applied by Means of the 42 Springs under the Pipes That Bear against the Overhead I-Beams. To the Right, One of These Springs is Shown Enlarged; the Tie-Rods between ...
7
Civil Engineer and Practical Machinist: Treatises on Civil ...
... feet above the surface of the meadows, being laid in the best Roman cement, newly mixed, the remainder of the work to be set in mortar and well grouted. The piers of the skew arch must be lightened in the interior as shewn on the Drawing.
Charles John Blunt, 1834
8
John Rennie 1761-1821: The Life and Work of a Great Engineer
March Barn Bridge, on the other hand, has a perfect skew arch with winding courses. Among the several bridges which cross the canal at an angle it is the only one so constructed. It is of approximately the same date as all the others and  ...
Cyril T. G. Boucher, 1967
9
The Planning of Roman Roads and Walls in Northen Britain
... the skew. If a masonry arch is to be constructed on the skew, then unless the angle of skew is very slight, the arch will tend to shear when loaded. The invention of the skew arch succeeded in spreading the load by adopting winding courses ...
John Poulter, 2012
10
The South western, or London, Southampton, and Portsmouth ...
Bridges are formed over every road or stream, and where these are passed obliquely it is done by a skew-arch. A skew-arch is one which, instead of piercing the railway perpendicularly to its base, does it at some less angle, and the use of it is ...
London and south western railway, 1839

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SKEW ARCH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term skew arch is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Silver Creek Village Board hears concerns over railroad bridges
The Jackson Street bridge is the historic Skew Arch, which was erected in 1869. The stones in the construction were carved from local rock and form a unique ... «Buffalo News, Apr 15»
2
Architectural drawing sheds light on ancient dwellings
It precisely and clearly depicts the structure of the wooden building. Its skew arch has two folds, which we previously believed was first adopted in Tang Dynasty. «CCTV, Jan 14»
3
River Gade - Hunton Bridge
The original structure was demolished in 1932 and replaced with a reinforced concrete skew arch bridge. Some of the existing structure was demolished in 1983 ... «Crosswhatfields?, Oct 13»
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